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Twitter Bans Ads From Two Russian Media Outlets, Cites Election Meddling

27Oct By reutersNo Comments

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Twitter Bans Ads From Two Russian Media Outlets, Cites Election Meddling

Twitter Inc on Thursday accused Russian media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik of interfering in the 2016 U.S. election and banned them from buying ads on its network, after criticism the social network had not done enough to deter international meddling. RT and Sputnik condemned the decision, saying Twitter had encouraged ad spending with its sales tactics, while Russia’s foreign ministry said the ban was due to U.S. government pressure and that it planned to retaliate. San Francisco-based Twitter said in an unsigned statement on its website that election meddling is “not something we want” on the social network. It cited a report this year from U.S. intelligence agencies and said it had also done its own investigations of RT and Sputnik. “We did not come to this decision ligh...

25Oct By reutersNo Comments

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Twitter To Label Election Ads After U.S. Regulatory Threat

Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it would add labels to election-related advertisements and say who is behind each of them, after a threat of regulation from the United States over the lack of disclosure for political spending on social media. Twitter, acting a month after Facebook Inc launched a similar overhaul of political ads, said in a blog post it would start a website so people could see identities of buyers, targeting demographics and total ad spend by election advertisers. Silicon Valley social media firms and the political ads that run on their websites have generally been free of the disclaimers and other regulatory demands that U.S. authorities impose on television, radio and satellite services. Calls for that to change have grown, however, after Twitter, Facebook and Alpha...

This is Why India’s EVMs Best in World; Secure, Robust, Tamper Proof

27Mar By PriyankaNo Comments

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This is Why India’s EVMs Best in World; Secure, Robust, Tamper Proof

New Delhi: All of a sudden this month the nifty Indian invention, the unique electronic voting machines that were hailed to be the harbingers of free and fair elections in India, are being made out to be the villains of the piece. So have the machines suddenly become fallible and has anybody ever hacked into them? The machines are the same and nobody has ever hacked them, the problem could lie elsewhere in depleting political values. The independent Election Commission of India (ECI) says "it completely reaffirms its faith in the infallibility of the EVMs these are fully tramper-proof as ever". It adds "baseless, speculative and wild allegations are being made which deserve to be rejected". There is an old saying the "winner takes it all and the loser cries foul"! The stunning resul...

Trump Campaign Announces $25 Million Ad Buy in Final Five Days

4Nov By NitishNo Comments

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Trump Campaign Announces $25 Million Ad Buy in Final Five Days

The Trump Campaign has announced buying a $25 million advertisement slots in key battleground states as part of its effort to swing the pendulum in its favour amidst reports that the race to the White House has tightened. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, himself sent an email to his supporters yesterday announcing his decision in this regard. "With a clear path to victory, we just announced an aggressive USD 25 million final ad-buy in the 13 most winnable battleground states. Tightening polls have even forced Hillary to make her first-ever ad-buy in Wisconsin," Trump said. The Trump Campaign said it has strengthened its leads in six battleground states: Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina and Nevada. If this trend continues until Election Day, they can...