Amid growing concern about the vulnerability of the U.S. election system to hackers, Pennsylvania told election officials they had to upgrade their machines last year. But according to a Saturday report in the Associated Press, though some 60 percent of those systems have been upgraded—at a cost of $14.15 million—many of ... Read More »
Kenya opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga has said the electoral commission’s IT system has been hacked to manipulate the election results. He rejected provisional results from Tuesday’s vote indicating a strong lead for President Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenya’s election chief Wafula Chebukati said he had confidence in the system but the ... Read More »
New Delhi: The election commission could sound the poll bugle in election-bound states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur anytime after December 20, sources told News18 on Monday. Sources also said the EC is likely to go for dates between second week of February and the beginning of ... Read More »
All that fake news you saw during the election may have been part of a “sophisticated” Russian propaganda campaign. The abundance of fake news in the lead up to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory earlier this month has become a hot button issue, entangling tech giants like Facebook and Google. It ... Read More »
Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, and president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith, both released statements today in response to Donald Trump’s win in the United States’ election last night. Nadella’s statement, which was posted via his LinkedIn account, is more of a short introduction to Smith’s rather lengthy blog post ... Read More »
A limited edition golden Donald Trump iPhone was crafted and released publicly with Russia’s politically inclined tech and artistic expression. The company, Caviar, specializes in politically charged and gold-plated limited edition iPhones. They called this Trump iPhone as the changeover iPhone and presented it as an act of goodwill and ... Read More »
After Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections last night, media analysts were quick to point out that a lot of it was due to his mastery of the hysterics stemming from a 24-hour news cycle and social media, especially Twitter. Short, pointed zingers, and a lot of viral ... Read More »
A new report from mobile analytics firm Flurry out this morning shows how Americans’ overwhelming election fatigue and disinterest in continuing to follow political news stories played out during the U.S. Elections. The firm found that two of the lowest dips in news reading activity on mobile devices – where many people ... Read More »
As of 7 November, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s number of newspaper endorsements stand at 57, while Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s at around 10, that is, if you include small dailies as well, including the Crusader, the official mouthpiece of the KKK. It’s not a surprise that so few ... Read More »
As the early polling began for the 2016 US presidential election, Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is off to an early lead in New Hampshire. If she also wins North Carolina, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will have to win every other battleground state to win the election. Hillary Clinton ... Read More »
