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  These videos are posing biggest threat to 2020 US Presidential Elections

  World | July 19, 2019 23:33 IST

  Sophisticated phony videos called deepfakes have attracted plenty of attention as a possible threat to election integrity. But a bigger problem for the 2020 U.S. presidential contest may be “dumbfakes” — simpler and more easily unmasked bogus videos that are easy and often cheap to produce.

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  Facebook prohibits advertisement that hinders people from voting

  Technology | July 02, 2019 12:24 IST

  Facebook to prohibit ads supporting non voters ahead of US Presidential elections 2020

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  Ex-US President Carter calls Donald Trump 'illegitimate' President, gets slammed

  World | June 29, 2019 19:39 IST

  Ex-US President Jimmy Carter said that Trump would not be in the White House if not for Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

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  Donald Trump jokes to Vladimir Putin: 'Don't meddle in the election'

  World | June 28, 2019 13:29 IST

  The tone of the president's comment, which came after a reporter asked if he would warn Putin, was immediately open to interpretation. But it would seem to do little to silence questions about Trump's relationship with Russia in the aftermath of special counsel Robert Mueller's conclusion that he could not establish a criminal conspiracy between Trump's campaign and Russia.

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  Bernie Sanders announces his candidature for US presidential elections in 2020

  World | February 19, 2019 18:16 IST

  An enthusiastic progressive who embraces proposals ranging from Medicare for All to free college tuition, Sanders stunned the Democratic establishment in 2016 with his spirited challenge to Hillary Clinton.

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  Tulsi Gabbard, first Hindu in US Congress, announces 2020 presidential run to take on Trump

  World | January 12, 2019 11:23 IST

  Gabbard, 37, is the second woman after Senator Elizabeth Warren to enter the presidential race from the Democratic party.

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  Facebook breach: Zuckerberg asked to testify; data firm’s CEO suspended

  World | March 21, 2018 13:28 IST

  Cambridge’s board of directors suspended CEO Alexander Nix pending an investigation after Nix boasted of various unsavory services to an undercover reporter.

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  Sunita Williams voted before flying to her home in space

  World | November 07, 2012 7:51 IST

  Washington, Nov 7: Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams has already voted by absentee ballot, but if she wanted she could have voted in the US presidential election from her home in space on election day