{"id":17934,"date":"2019-06-26T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=17934"},"modified":"2019-06-26T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:49:00","slug":"senators-grill-google-exec-on-persuasive-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=17934","title":{"rendered":"Senators grill Google exec on &#8216;persuasive technology&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) introduced legislation on Tuesday aimed at preventing foreign nationals from purchasing political advertisements, the latest move by Senate Democrats pushing for election security legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The Preventing Adversaries Internationally from Disbursing Advertising Dollars (PAID AD) Act would amend federal campaign finance laws to ban foreign nationals from purchasing ads that name a political candidate and appear on broadcast, cable, satellite or digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would also make it illegal for a foreign government to purchase &#8220;issue advertisements&#8221; during an election year.<\/p>\n<p>The senators argued that the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), first passed in 1972, should be expanded beyond its current &#8220;narrow&#8221; definition of what constitutes &#8220;electioneering communication.&#8221; The law currently prohibits a foreign national from contributing to political campaigns, making independent expenditures or buying electioneering communication, but the senators want it to go further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Mark&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17935,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17934\/revisions\/17935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}