Question

Since there are so many abuses and dangers on the Internet, should it be regulated and if so by whom? Check out the recent Russian interference in the 2016 election and the recent Facebook debacle.

Answer 1

There are allegations that Russia has intermingled in the selection and campaigning for the post of President in USA elections. FBI and National security has claimed that Russia is involved in the presidential campaign for selecting USA president Donald Trump. Department of Homeland Security has said that Kremlin based agencies tried to infiltrate the presidential data packed computer networks containing confidential information. Riber Mueller in the White house charged several Russian agencies of conspiring in the USA presidential elections. There was negative publicity in the Sputnik news channel delineating the image of Clinton as an Islamic extremist and a person with poor mental and physical health. The news agencies even told that there were several incidences of leakage of important confidential emails with total breach of USA White house parliament security. There were many political rallies and advertisement campaigns in which Russia favoured Donald Trump for the presidential post and passed fake news about the presidential rule of Bill Clinton. There are reports that the computer systems containing confidential presidential reports were hacked before the presidential polls in USA. Thirteen Russian parliament members have been charged and accused with conspiring in the awareness campaigns about the presidential elections involving President Donald Trump. George Papadopoulos agreed that the lied to the FBI agents and Donald Trump fired the head of FBI in 2017.USA security advisor Flynn resigned from the office.

Data analytics firm that worked with the Trump federation collected many facebook profiles for collecting information about Donald presidential campaigns. The electronic vote maching polls were convinced by using fscebbok profiles to vote for Donald Trump. The name of the company is Cambridge Analytica. Chistopher Wylie who worked with the Cambridge university obtained the data and campaigned with advertising for Trump for the presidential post. Alexandr Kogan developed a digital app and obtained information of thousands of people before polling with consideration of a personality test in the statistical survey. The data was used for convincing candidates to vote for the post of president in the electoral campaigns. The case of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica is still under investigation in USA and British high commission. CEO of the Cambridge Analytica Alexandra Nix said we do not have such information. Trump key advisor Steve Bannon used data who was the Vice president of Cambridge Analytica misused this data for publicity in electoral campaigns. Observer newpaper has evidence to prove about a contract that SCL, Cambridge Analytica and GSR entered into an agreement to misuse Facebook data and confidential information about people for electoral campaigns.