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Efforts to fight foreign influence and protect elections in question under Trump

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Staffers at the U.S. cybersecurity agency working on countering foreign disinformation and on election security have been put on leave, according to sources who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal.

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Efforts to fight foreign influence and protect elections in question under Trump

11 days ago·Washington, United States

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Wesley Wark: Social media, disinfo and foreign interference in the era of Trump

By: Wesley WarkThe findings of the 16-month public inquiry into foreign interference in Canada’s elections and democratic processes, released late last month, threaten to be swallowed up by the urgencies surrounding a suddenly fraught Canada-U.S. relationship.One way to make sure this doesn’t happen is to be clear about the ways in which the inquiry weaves two major threads between past foreign interference activities and future threats, with im…

12 days ago·Canada

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South Florida Reporter

Trump Administration Cuts Teams That Fight Foreign Election Interference

By Colby Itkowitz, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Sarah Ellison and Patrick Marley The Trump administration this week eliminated much of the federal government’s front line of defense against foreign interference in U.S. elections. The move, which follows years of Trump and his allies disputing the role that Russian influence campaigns played in his first successful bid for president, alarmed state election officials and election security experts, wh…

13 days ago

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