2016 Us Presidential Election
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Mueller report found no proof Trump campaign conspired with Russia: Robert Mueller, the invisible prosecutor who investigated US President
•As a prosecutor, Robert Mueller took on violent Hells Angels, mob bosses and foreign spies. At the end of his career, he was tasked with hunting the biggest target of all: the president of the United States
On back foot, Democrats demand release of full Mueller report on Russian interference in 2016 polls, says doesn't exonerate Donald Trump
•Top congressional Democrats said Sunday it was "urgent" that the full report on Russian interference in the 2016 US election be publicly released, stressing it does not exonerate Donald Trump.
With Robert Mueller report looming, new US attorney-general William Barr faces decision on going public with findings
•Robert Mueller is required to produce a confidential report to William Barr that explains his decisions to pursue or decline prosecutions. That could be as simple as a bullet point list or as fulsome as a report running hundreds of pages. Barr will then have to decide how much of Mueller's findings should be disclosed to the public.
Confidential evidence from Robert Mueller's Russia probe used in disinformation campaign, say US federal prosecutors
•The evidence in the Russia probe had been handed over to defence attorneys for Concord Management and Consulting LLC, a Russian company that special counsel Robert Mueller has charged with financing efforts to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election.
'Most insulting': Donald Trump furious over report on FBI probe into his possible ties with Russia
•Trump tweeted early Saturday that the report showed that the FBI leadership "opened up an investigation on me, for no reason and with no proof" after he had fired Comey.
People over 65, conservatives shared more Facebook fakery than youngsters in 2016
•They shared about seven times more fake news on the social media site than younger adults.
Former exec says Facebook wasn't alone in handling Russian trolls in 2016
Ians •Stamos says that the US must ‘come together to protect’ the democracy from misinformation.
CBI writes to Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and GSR in data breach case
Ians •Cambridge Analytica declared bankruptcy after using personal information of 87 million Facebook users.
Paul Manafort, former campaign chairman of Donald Trump, found guilty of eight financial crimes
•Paul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign, was found guilty of eight financial crimes
Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit: Politicians, analysts unite to slam US president for 'treacherous' remarks
Fp Staff •President Donald Trump faced political outrage in the US for not backing intelligence claims that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election, following the Helsinki summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin