Romania's top court annuls presidential election, after its security council revealed “hybrid Russian attacks”, like cyberattacks and TikTok influence campaigns
Romania's constitutional court has annulled the first round of the country's 2024 presidential election process …
US intelligence officials say Russia, Iran, and China are using AI tools to boost US election influence campaigns and Russia's efforts are the most aggressive
American intelligence officials say Moscow's efforts, aimed mostly at undermining Harris, are the most aggressive.
The US DOJ seizes 32 domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian efforts to influence the 2024 US presidential election
The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence …
Iran has emerged as the most aggressive foreign threat to the US election; a Microsoft report showed ways it has tried to hack a presidential campaign and more
Microsoft reveals apparent attack ahead of US election SC Media : Iranian influence operations against US elections escalate Juliana Kim / NPR : Microsoft detects fake news sites linked to Iran aimed ...
OpenAI disrupted five covert influence operations in the past three months that used its tools to try to manipulate public opinion or shape political outcomes
firm criticized the UN as well Meta went out of its way to tell the WSJ it didnt connect the firm to the Israeli government though I am not sure how the company tried (or didnt try) to make that conne...
Meta removed hundreds of Facebook accounts linked to influence campaigns from China, Israel, Iran, and others, some of which used AI to generate disinformation
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Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more
but no one is looking at it. https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED Tori Elliott / @telliotter : There's a lot of talk about China's disinfo/propaganda efforts, but turns out... they're pretty bad at it? Th...
The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform
and I am thrilled to see Tai seeking—greater balance in trade, the peace that falls between the extremes, avoiding the 20th century tendency to take every notion (like interdependence) beyond its logi...
Sources: in 2019, Donald Trump authorized the CIA to launch a clandestine social media campaign to turn China's public against the government and Xi Jinping
Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign … Mastodon: @kevincollier@mastodon.social . X: @shashj , @shashj , @ericgeller...
TikTok details its plans for the 2024 US elections, including a ban on political ads, work with fact-checking organizations, and reports on influence campaigns
Its approach hasn't changed much from 2022. — TikTok has shared more about its plans to fight misinformation ahead of the 2024 presidential election.