Online disinformation fuels violent threats against poll workers
Election officials wearing body armor to oversee voting in Colorado. A poll worker in New Mexico who quit in July after a voter followed her home, nearly rear ending her vehicle. A note sent to...
View Article2020 redux: Trump and allies push another round of election fraud claims
During midterm voting Tuesday, former President Donald Trump and his allies seized on procedural hiccups at polling centers to lay the groundwork to claim widespread fraud. Weeks before the election,...
View ArticleElection disinformation fueled midterm conspiracies, but far behind 2020...
Rumors and mischaracterizations about voting on Tuesday swirled around social media throughout the day, especially related to malfunctioning ballot tabulators in Arizona’s Maricopa County, where...
View ArticleRussian disinformation rampant on far-right social media platforms
A report released Tuesday by the Stanford Internet Observatory and the social media analytics firm Graphika documents how suspected Russian information operators are exploiting a lack of enforcement...
View ArticleThe 2024 race promises to be ‘very, very active’ in terms of foreign and...
The former head of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who President Trump fired over his comments about the 2020 election said he fully expects American adversaries such as...
View ArticleTreasury sanctions two Russian intelligence officers for election influence...
The Treasury Department issued sanctions on Friday against two Russian intelligence officers for their alleged role in global election influence operations that included recruiting political groups...
View ArticleCISA election security lead Kim Wyman to leave agency
Wyman, who previously served as Washington state's top election official, will step down as CISA's top election security adviser. The post CISA election security lead Kim Wyman to leave agency appeared...
View ArticleChinese, Russian interference attempts on 2022 midterms didn’t impact voting,...
Chinese and Russian targeting of U.S. election infrastructure during the 2022 midterms didn’t impact voting, according to the findings of a U.S. intelligence community report released on Monday that...
View ArticleDeepfakes, dollars and ‘deep state’ fears: Inside the minds of election...
Three years after a mob convinced that President Donald Trump had been the victim of widespread voter fraud stormed the U.S. Capitol, American election administrators are going into 2024 facing a...
View ArticleMeta’s Oversight Board slams company policies for manipulated media
Meta’s quasi-independent Oversight Board sharply rebuked the company on Monday for only applying its rules for manipulated media to AI-generated material, arguing that policy is “incoherent” and poses...
View ArticleCISA: No credible election threats, and no contact with social media companies
Officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said they have not seen serious attempts to meddle with election infrastructure in the lead-up to the Super Tuesday presidential...
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