Email: a hacker attack forced the FEC to temporarily take its filing system offline around 10pm ET on Monday, blocking groups from submitting reports
The US Federal Election Commission's website was targeted by a hacker or hackers, according to an email seen by Reuters …
US political groups are increasingly using influencers, a practice the FEC's campaign finance laws do not regulate, relying on an honor system for disclosures
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The FEC approves a proposal from Google to keep campaign emails from being marked as spam, after GOP lawmakers said Gmail was censoring right-wing emails
It's good news for Republicans facing falling fundraising — On Thursday, the Federal Election Commission approved a new proposal …
Facebook tightens rules for political advertisers in the US, requiring further identity proof such as tax-id number or Federal Election Commission registration
for free, to anyone — that blows publicly-available information about TV advertising out of the water https://twitter.com/... Lachlan Markay / @lachlan : This is potentially fantastic news for politic...
FEC approves a request from cybersecurity company Area 1 to provide discounted cybersecurity services to political campaigns for as little as $1,337/year
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Thursday approved a request from a private company to provide discounted cybersecurity services …
Google launches the online searchable library of federal election-related ads it promised US lawmakers last year, but it does not include political “issue ads”
It has a full API, open to all now — But no issue ads http://www.axios.com/... Nick Catalano / @nickcatal : Google released a list of all their federal political ads. http://transparencyreport.google....
Facebook requested blanket exemption from FEC over political ad disclosures for many years until changing course in 2017
In 2011, company said FEC shouldn't stand in way of innovation — Russian meddling prompts calls for political ad transparency — Facebook Inc. is pledging greater …
Twitter finds Russia Today purchased $274K in ads and promoted 1,823 tweets in US in 2016, and pledges to work with FEC and Congress on political ad disclosure
Earlier this summer we outlined some of our work to combat bots and networks of manipulation on Twitter.