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Candidate can use campaign funds to pay for babysitter, FEC rules (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 18:44These are the most popular Russian Facebook ads from each month (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 15:53What data on more than 3,500 Russian Facebook ads reveals about the interference effort (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 15:20Many Russia-linked Facebook ads weren’t explicitly pro-Trump. That doesn’t mean they weren’t pro-Trump. (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 15:18President Trump makes it explicit: Negative coverage of him is fake coverage
The Media Research Center says that 91 percent of network news coverage of President Donald Trump from January through April 2018 was negative. [The Media Research Center, please note, is part of the conglomerate of conservative enterprises funded by Robert Mercer and his family, the folks that also funded Cambridge Analytica, Breitbart and former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon.] To which President Trump replied: "The Fake News is working overtime.
A fifth of the Republicans elected to the House in 2016 won’t be there after midterms (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 05/09/2018 - 13:08A Google program can pass as a human on the phone. Should it be required to tell people it’s a machine? (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 05/09/2018 - 06:45FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s favorite TV show id=s Judge Judy (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 05/08/2018 - 14:46
Can Facebook and Google’s new federal watchdogs regulate tech?
Facebook and Google must answer to new cops on the beat – a group of five fresh Washington regulators at the Federal Trade Commission who have the power to punish Silicon Valley if it misbehaves. But veterans of the 103-year old watchdog say that the agency increasingly runs the risk of being outmatched by the very tech giants it oversees without more cash, cutting-edge staff and stronger legal teeth.