Tag: influence
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Chinese influence operation targets U.S. down-ballot races, Microsoft says
An army of Chinese-controlled social media bots is attempting to influence voters in Alabama, Texas and Tennessee, while denigrating U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, according to new research published on Wednesday by Microsoft. The operation represents a coordinated interference effort against down-ballot races, experts say, in which the fake accounts are denigrating U.S. Representative…
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Notre Dame law school’s growing influence on the Supreme Court
Annie Ortega, a third-year student who recently took a weeklong class taught by Barrett, praised the “ideologically diverse” school. She is president of the school’s chapter of the Federalist Society but said she has lively conversations with her many liberal friends at the school. “Going to a law school where I was going to hear…
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TikTok removes Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, citing ‘covert influence operations’
TikTok said Monday it had removed accounts belonging to the Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik for engaging in what it called “covert influence operations.” The social video app said in a statement on its website that it removed accounts associated with TV-Novosti and Rossiya Segodnya, the parent organizations of the RT television network…