Politico, the NYT, the WaPo, and others say they received hacked Trump campaign materials, but gave few details, a marked contrast to Clinton's emails in 2016
At least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Donald Trump campaign, including its report vetting JD Vance as a vice presidential candidate.
Experts discuss worst-case scenarios for election night, from coordinated social media disinfo campaigns to ransomware targeting voter registration systems
and what to do about it. #GeorgetownLaw's @mattblaze: “this year my nightmares are less about technical mischief and more about logistical breakdown.” https://www.nytimes.com/... @nbcpolitics : With f...
Senate Intelligence Committee concludes Putin ordered the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party accounts and the release of emails to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign
it's a clarion warning call for the upcoming election. https://twitter.com/... Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance : GOP Senators signed off on the report's conclusion Trump discussed Wikileaks' release of...
Overview of major efforts by Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Dustin Moskovitz, and Laurene Powell Jobs to boost Joe Biden's chances in the upcoming election
Eric Schmidt's data play, STAC Labs, is run by Martha Laning, the former head of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. #wipolitics https://twitter.com/... Cate Long / @cate_long : “Republicans have invested...
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built the Iowa caucus app that contributed to delays in reporting results
show’ a year ago Wall Street Journal : Iowa's Tally-by-App Experiment Fails Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic : Who Needs the Russians? Jeff Bercovici / Los Angeles Times : Tech firm started by Clinton ca...
Q&A with Alex Stamos about Mark Zuckerberg's recent comments on free speech and where he went wrong, Facebook's News tab, fact-checking political ads, and more
Facebook relationship to speech is complicated: It takes down some forms of hate speech, provided it meets certain criteria … Tweets: @mathewi , @sriramk , @maxorgel , @benthompson , @mathewi , @mathe...
Facebook bans networks, three originating in Iran and one in Russia, running “inauthentic” accounts, Pages, and Groups misleading US and Latin American users
many of the accounts claimed to be run from swing states pic.twitter.com/pmpLN7LsEf Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Accounts with usernames like http://black.queen.chloe and michigan_black_community_ look...
Inside the DNC's plan to replace its aging data repository Vertica with the Data Warehouse, a more powerful BigQuery-based system, before the 2020 election
IN JULY OF 2017, as Raffi Krikorian settled into his new office at the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton's words were still ringing in his ears. Tweets: @issielapowsky , @wired , @saikatc...
Report prepared for the Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more
For years, Russia has leveraged … Wired : How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America New York Times : Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media Sara Fisch...
Researchers detail a phishing campaign by Iran-linked hackers targeting US government officials that bypassed SMS-based 2FA protections in Gmail and Yahoo Mail
eg so you don't have to use the key every time you log on from the same computer at a known IP address. But if anything's unusual you do. Sensible thread http://twitter.com/... Elad Strohmayer / @elad...