election interference
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Twitter Briefly Grows a Spine, Says It Was an Accident
What many might have hailed as Twitter setting an example by restricting engagement with U.S. President Donald Trump’s misleading and incredulous tweets about his election loss was, according to the company, an accident. Hold your fanfare. The company has since reversed course, fully restored engagement to Trump’s tweets, and ostensibly let the beginnings of its…
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Crappy Email Security Could Be the Next Big Threat to American Elections: Report
Given the embarrassing catastrophe that was the 2016 presidential election, staving off cyberattacks and foreign influence campaigns is a top priority for election officials nationwide as we get closer to November. Apparently, though, no one thought to apply that same level of scrutiny to their emails. Who’d have thought phishing scams would be the downfall of…
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US Democrats Demand More Security To Curb Election Fraud
Dozens of Senate Democrats signed a letter on November 18 urging a significant increase in election security funding that’s necessary, they say, for election officials to combat potential meddling in the 2020 presidential election, among other security concerns.
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Zuckerberg: I Feel Responsible For The ‘Different Ways’ Facebook Was Used To Cause, Uh, ‘Effects’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing calls to break up the company on the campaign trail, mounting antitrust inquiries from federal and state authorities, and the looming prospect of 2020 disinformation campaigns that could again kick his company’s arse. So he’s emerged from his gilded panic room more regularly as of late, this time sitting…