Facebook announced on Tuesday that it has identified a political campaign on its platform made of fake accounts. The social media giant said that the campaign was targeting the midterm elections. Over 32 pages and fake accounts were linked to this campaign.
President Donald Trump says he’s willing to close down the government over border security issues. The statement has made most GOP lawmakers anxious as we head to the midterms later this year.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says that he will not back the effort of his conservative house colleagues to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein is overseeing Mueller’s investigation into the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Amazon’s new facial recognition software is being tested by law enforcement in several US states. However, it turns out that the software may not be as powerful as it first seemed. Reps John Lewis of Georgia, Bobby L. Rush of Illinois and 26 more lawmakers are at the center of these new revelations. The facial recognition technology developed by Amazon mistakenly identified them as people who had actually been arrested for crimes.
President Trump is considering revoking the security clearance of former Obama-era intelligence officials in a move announced by the White House. If Trump moves forward with this decision, it will most likely be interpreted by analysts as a power abuse to lash out against his critics.
