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In the distant and innocent year of 2002, lawmakers really thought they could cut back on negative and corrosive political advertising with one simple trick: Making candidates personally stand behind [...]

Elon Musk's social media service said it would begin to permit cause-based advertising to ''facilitate public conversation around important topics.'' SAN FRANCISCO -- Twitter said on Tuesday that it would [...]

The Times had reported that the campaign committee used money meant for legal expenses to pay for advertising. A watchdog group and Democrats are raising challenges. A campaign watchdog group [...]

Good morning. Here's your quick rundown of the business and tech news to know for the week ahead. -- Charlotte Cowles What's Up? (Feb. 28-March 6) Compromises, Compromises The Biden [...]

The social network had prohibited political ads on its site indefinitely after the November election. Such ads have been criticized for spreading misinformation. SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook said on Wednesday [...]

Good morning! This is the most I've ever looked forward to a Monday, when New York City enters Phase 2 of its reopening. (Outdoor dining, here we come.) Here's what [...]

The president has tried to parlay space policy into an upbeat campaign issue for the 2020 election. The campaign to re-elect President Trump pulled SpaceX, NASA and astronauts and their [...]

Facebook said Wednesday that it was strengthening how it verified which groups and people place political advertising on its site, as the social network braces for the 2020 presidential election [...]

Facebook has banned advertising from The Epoch Times, the Falun Gong-related publication and conservative news outlet, as the social network struggles to implement a consistent political advertising policy. Facebook issued [...]

What do a day care center, a vegetarian restaurant, a hair salon, an outdoor clothing maker and an investigative news publisher have in common? To Facebook, they looked suspiciously like [...]

MEXICO CITY -- In the television ad, President Enrique Peña Nieto strolls along a beautiful beach, his bare feet in the crystalline water as he talks about his government's environmental [...]

ALBANY -- Following a federal push for more disclosure, and amid investigations into Russian meddling into American elections, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is proposing legislation to close legal loopholes in [...]

WASHINGTON -- Twitter said on Tuesday that it would bring more transparency to advertisements on its site, including political ads, in the latest response by a technology company to criticism [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator John McCain and two Democratic senators moved on Thursday to force Facebook, Google and other internet companies to disclose who is purchasing online political advertising, after revelations [...]

A state law that makes it a crime to publish false statements about political candidates is unconstitutional, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday. The ruling came in a case involving [...]

WASHINGTON -- Officials in Washington said on Friday that they had suspended all issue-oriented advertising in the public transit system because of fears that granting a request to display a [...]

LONDON -- When the U.K. Independence Party received a donation of 1 million pounds a few weeks ago -- about $1.5 million -- it seemed like a big lift heading [...]

The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted on Wednesday to ban political advertising on New York City subways and buses to avoid the legal challenges it had faced after [...]

One campaign advertisement mailed to voters' homes last fall suggested that a candidate for New York City comptroller deserved to be behind bars. Another highlighted accusations of sexual harassment against […]

Cathy Guerriero could not get over her tongue. It was an August day in a production studio in Chinatown, and Ms. Guerriero, a candidate for public advocate, was looking over [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIt is one of the flashiest advertising blitzes of the political season: a $100,000 campaign by Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor, calling on mayoral candidates to support stricter [...]

WASHINGTON -- A little-noticed provision of the new health care law is causing big headaches for some members of Congress in this year's elections. And it is likely to cause [...]

America's corporations and their executives are in grave danger, warns Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader. According to Mr. McConnell, if President Obama were to find out who was giving [...]

Reversing a decades-old rule, a federal appeals court said on Thursday that public television and radio stations could not be prohibited from broadcasting paid political advertisements. The ruling could prompt [...]

The government is moving forward with a plan to make local television stations post information about political advertising on a central Web site. Owners of local stations have tried to [...]

Local broadcasters, by law, have to disclose the identities of those who buy political advertisements, as well as detailed information about the purchases. They print out the data and store [...]

A period of consolidation is under way in local television -- and with it, a renewed debate about the implications of merger and acquisition activity on the industry. A torrent [...]

WASHINGTON -- A new series of political advertisements on behalf of an embattled Nebraska senator could open the door to a flood of similar ads financed by outside groups and [...]

We can't turn on the television these days without being assaulted by ads anonymously savaging candidates. Welcome to politics in post-Citizens United America. The Supreme Court allowed unlimited campaign spending [...]

WASHINGTON -- Democrats are charging that commercials financed by an increasingly prominent conservative foundation with ties to the Tea Party violate the foundation's tax-exempt status. In a complaint filed this [...]

Free speech implies responsibility. The Supreme Court said earlier this year that corporations and unions have the First Amendment right to spend whatever they want on independent political ads, but [...]

When the Supreme Court opened the gates to unlimited corporate spending in federal elections, one of the most alarmed lawmakers, Senator Olympia Snowe, called it a ''serious disservice to our [...]

President Obama took aim at the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying the justices had ''handed a huge victory to the special interests and their lobbyists'' with last week's 5-to-4 decision [...]

WASHINGTON -- ''There are two things that are important in politics,'' Mark Hanna, the great Republican kingmaker of the late 19th century, once said. ''The first thing is money, and [...]

Even before a landmark Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance law expected within days, a series of other court decisions is reshaping the political battlefield by freeing corporations, unions and [...]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is used to dealing with ungrateful lawmakers and constituents. But preschoolers? At the Queens County Fair the other day, Mr. Bloomberg walked up to the dart-toss […]

Nearly seven months after defying a prohibition on endorsing candidates from the pulpit, 33 churches across the country are still waiting to learn whether the Internal Revenue Service will take […]

Escalating its efforts to portray Senator Barack Obama as a candidate whose values fall outside the mainstream, the campaign of Senator John McCain on Tuesday unveiled a new television advertisement […]

-- Unions, businesses and interest groups may run television and radio 'issue ads' that name candidates in the days before elections, federal regulators said Tuesday, easing previous restrictions. The unanimous […]

The so-called Wounded Warriors Act, legislation intended to improve health care for veterans, has attracted nearly unanimous, bipartisan support in Congress. So why would the newly formed Foundation for a […]

A three-judge panel on Thursday overturned a key segment of the campaign finance law that banned issue advertisements paid for by corporate or union money in the critical weeks before […]

Kentucky may not prohibit judicial candidates from personally soliciting campaign contributions, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The judge, Karen K. Caldwell of Federal District Court in Frankfort, said the […]

The Federal Election Commission, that great enabler of campaign loopholes, is now creating loopholes for itself. The panel is bypassing its own requirements for adequate public notice in a rush […]

The Federal Election Commission relaxed rules that restrict coordination between outside groups or political parties and candidates for the House and the Senate. Citing analyses that showed that most campaign […]

The Federal Election Commission finally did the right thing in ruling that the Internet must not be used as a conduit for unregulated salvos of big-money political advertising. Scolded by […]