By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With a new election approaching, the FBI is concerned. The FBI’s “foreign influence” task force plans to alert U.S. companies and the public about efforts by Russia or other nations to use disinformation and social media manipulation to interfere in upcoming elections, Bloomberg News reports. At the same time, the feds…
The Trump administration’s increasing battle against illegal immigration may soon include tracking the social media feeds of foreign visitors.
An alleged hacker accused of online stalking and harassment of an FBI agent is back in jail after criticizing the FBI on a blog post.
Russia’s aggressive and surreptitious campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election included troves of misleading and often vicious social media ads targeting Muslims, Black Lives Matter and illegal immigrants.
Former FBI Director James Comey has confirmed he’s been using a secret Twitter account.
The Justice Department is trying to force Facebook to disclose the names of everyone who interacted with an event page about an anti-Donald Trump rally during the presidential inauguration.
Facebook alerted the FBI to suspected activity by Kremlin-linked hackers before the 2016 presidential election.
Information about Facebook’s discovery that an operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on ads on the social media site was turned over to Robert Mueller, the special counsel in charge of investigating alleged Russian meddling in last year’s presidential election.
