Neowin News Feed for: Election

YouTube expands voting information to help inform users

Paul Hill — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 21:22:01 +0000

YouTube will show users in the U.S. more information on how to vote and how to register to vote so that the maximum number of people can vote in November. Content is available in English and Spanish. Read more...

Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

Paul Hill — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 17:16:01 +0000

Twitter has announced that it's rolling out several prompts throughout its platform to encourage Americans to vote in the upcoming presidential elections. More prompts will appear in the coming weeks. Read more...

Facebook announces new measures to “protect” the 2020 U.S. election

Paul Hill — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:40:02 +0000

Facebook has outlined a raft of new measures to help protect the U.S. Presidential election next year. It will begin rolling out new features in the coming months to limit the spread of fake news. Read more...

Facebook making it tougher to advertise during the 2020 U.S. presidential election

Paul Hill — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:40:02 +0000

Facebook has announced that it's updating its ad-publishing rules ready for the upcoming U.S. presidential elections in 2020. With the changes voters will be able to easily track candidate spending. Read more...

Twitter has banned several accounts ran by a Chinese cult in Hebrew

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 18:30:01 +0000

Reportedly, many accounts that use Hebrew to communicate were recently suspended by Twitter. Allegedly, these accounts were run by a Chinese religious group known as the Church of Almighty God. Read more...

Microsoft seizes Russian-operated websites spoofing U.S. conservative groups

Jay Bonggolto — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:34:01 +0000

Microsoft has disrupted six fake websites allegedly operated by Strontium, a group also calling itself Fancy Bear or APT28. The group is believed to be associated with the Russian government. Read more...

The state of Washington sues Facebook and Google for not keeping track of election ads

Gurkaran Singh — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:24:01 +0000

The state capital of the United States is filing a lawsuit against the two conglomerates for allegedly violating campaign finance law. The state seeks penalties and an injuction on the two companies. Read more...

Virginia plans to replace voting machines by November

Usen Joshua O. — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 07:28:02 +0000

The Virginia State Election Board has approved plans by the Department of Elections to decertify and replace all current touchscreen machines due to hacking concerns and lack of paper audit trails. Read more...

Facebook steps up its fight against fake news during the Kenyan election

Dreyer Smit — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:24:01 +0000

With the Kenyan elections around the corner, Facebook Africa is stepping up its efforts to curb the spread of fake news on its platform that could negatively affect the election on August 8. Read more...

Bing gets political, builds a hub and makes a few predictions

Brad Sams — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:40:01 +0000

The team behind Bing has built a new political hub for the upcoming election that aims to help you keep abreast of the election cycle - and it will also put its prediction engine to work too. Read more...

Bug in ancient e-voting machines impact Belgium election

Christopher White — Tue, 27 May 2014 05:00:00 +0000

A bug with e-voting machines in Belgium has raised havoc with the country's election process, causing a temporary halt until the developers can find and fix the flag in the DOS-based machines. Read more...

YouTube launches their U.S. Elections 2012 Hub

Stefano Elia — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:06:05 +0000

YouTube have launched a new video hub for the United States 2012 Elections that will allow users to watch 'key moments' from now until election day, all from the comfort of their computer chair. Read more...

Coalition announces its broadband plan for Australia

Curtis Green — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:38:21 +0000

The Liberal-National coalition party has announced its scaled-down version of the $43 billion broadband plan, NBN. The Labor run plan would enable a national fiber-optic network by 2017 that everyone could use; that is if... Read more...

Politicians play dirty with Google Ads

Andrew Fairbairn — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:50:52 +0000

The main political parties in the UK are currently gearing themselves up for the next general election, which must be called for 3 June this year at the latest. Key to this election, more than... Read more...

Pirate Party wins seat in European parliament

James Hall — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:15:46 +0000

Elections for the European Parliament were held in most European countries today, and, as many expected, Sweden's Piratpartiet, or Pirate Party, has won a seat with over 7% of the vote, according to The Local.... Read more...

Discuss the Election results Live in #neowin!

Stephen Roberts — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:15:16 +0000

Want to talk to other Neowinians about the current elections live as it happens?Come down and discuss the elections with us live in the Neowin IRC channel with other Neowinians, even if you have never... Read more...

In '52, Huge Computer Called Univac Changed Election Night

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:10:43 +0000

There was another election season, back in 1952, when a presidential contest seemed too close to call, America worried it was vulnerable to attack, and a single company dominated computing. Those circumstances set... Read more...