Sentence examples for target election from inspiring English sources
More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign.
Yet its own VP of ads has admitted that Russian efforts to spread propaganda are ongoing and persistent, and do not solely target elections or politicians….
He said they were targeting election agents so polling stations would not be monitored and to discourage political activity.
The Independent says the information commissioner is "seeking clarification" from Labour as to how it came to send targeted election leaflets to cancer sufferers.
We learned last year that Russia targeted election systems in at least 21 states.
But then came the fake news, News Feed addiction, violence on Facebook Live, cyberbullying, abusive ad targeting, election interference and, most recently, the Cambridge Analytica app data privacy scandals.
This year, Taliban militants have targeted election offices in Kabul, the capital, and Afghan political activists in the provinces.
In 2016, Russian hackers likely targeted election systems in many states and penetrated Illinois's registration database; this year there is concern that hackers will go after both government and private systems.
Why it's not just targeting elections.
Two more attacks attributed to the Russian government in the report also targeted elections infrastructure.
Shadowy spending has targeted elections at all levels, from the White House to Congress to state party committees.
