Tag Archives: Politics
Possible impeachment could further upend Virginia politics
Canada to Trump administration: Don’t play politics with Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou extradition case
Paul Ryan’s bittersweet exit shows the limits of ideas in politics
Upended by frat boys: Lawmakers slam Facebook's effect on politics
Facebook came under fire on Tuesday from lawmakers from several countries who accused the firm of undermining democratic institutions and left out an empty chair for chief executive Mark Zuckerberg after he declined to be questioned. Facebook is being investigated by lawmakers in Britain after consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which worked on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, obtained the personal data of 87 million Facebook users from a researcher, drawing attention to the use of data analytics in politics. “We’ve never seen anything quite like Facebook, where, while we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions … seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California,” Canadian lawmaker Charlie Angus said at a special international hearing at Britain’s parliament.