Award winning actor Nick Searcy joined ITN to discuss the premiere of his new eye-opening documentary about the events of January 6th, Capitol Punishment.
Capitol Punishment will premiere on Thanksgiving Day but can be pre-ordered today at https://capitolpunishmentthemovie.com.
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A U.S. federal judge has ordered former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to jail while awaiting his trial scheduled to begin in September. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson revoked Manafort’s bail which had allowed him to live under house …
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Former Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, is refusing to turn over documents and correspondence to the Senate Judiciary Committee relating to the committee’s ongoing Russia investigation. Although she did not fully comply with the demand for the information, calling the …
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Updated 5/8/18 at 9:15 a.m.
Connecticut has become the twelfth state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a group of states passing laws requiring their state’s electors vote for the winner of the popular vote in presidential elections.…
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It starts with an innocent search of the day’s headlines on YouTube. While things seem normal at first, the site eventually pulls you further and further away from mainstream content and more towards fringe content designed, above all, to …
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Controversial data research firm Cambridge Analytica announced it was shutting its doors this week. The company uses psychometrics, the study of human characteristics to predict human behavior. It’s best known for harvesting the personal information of some 87 million …
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A band of news organizations have filed a motion with a federal court to unseal documents related to Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The records specifically concern the indictments of several former Trump campaign …
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, endured a marathon session of questioning yesterday on Capitol Hill from a joint Senate committee looking to get to the bottom of the social media giant’s actions in several incidents where tens of millions of …
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Facebook, in announcing significant changes to its information-sharing features with third-party app developers, has announced that up to 87 million Facebook users – mostly in the U.S. – have had their information inappropriately harvested by political data research firm Cambridge …
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A Texas woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for voting in the 2016 presidential election when she was ineligible to do so. Forty-three-year-old Crystal Mason had signed an affidavit laying out several requirements allowing her to vote. …
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Cambridge Analytica, the data research firm, has issued an extended statement explaining the types of data the firm used, and didn’t use, during the 2016 presidential election. The firm started working for the Trump campaign in June 2016. It has …
Continue ReadingThe parent company of data research firm Cambridge Analytica, Strategic Communications Laboratories, has bragged about interference-tactics in foreign elections according to promotional materials published by the company. SCL, and its subsidiary, use psychometrics, the study of human characteristics to predict …
Continue ReadingAttorney General Jeff Sessions fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe last week in a surprising but not entirely unexpected move. Similarly, we’ve learned more about the role big data has played in the 2016 election, especially on the social media …
Continue ReadingFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed recent revelations that a data research firm inappropriately accessed and harvested personal data on 50 million Facebook users in the run up to the 2016 presidential election today.
The Facebook CEO denied culpability for the …
Continue ReadingRevelations continue to be made about Facebook’s relationship with a data research company that bills itself as a company that help sway votes and win elections for politicians all over the world.
Cambridge Analytica, a subsidiary of Strategic Communications Laboratory, …
Continue ReadingFacebook announced the departure of Alex Stamos, its chief information security officer yesterday. Stamos has been with the company since 2015. His departure comes as the company struggles with a rapidly-growing problem over the role it played in Russian …
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Bob Mercer was raised in New Mexico in the 1960’s. While in high school, he was able to work his way into a job at a nearby Air Force weapons lab writing computer programs. He once showed superiors at the …
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