Collaborate Disseminate
A review of nine companies’ business practices found that using their services was just the beginning of vast data collection efforts.
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Steve Simon has served as Minnesota’s 22nd Secretary of State since 2015, overseeing elections across 87 counties and managing the state’s voter registration database. His tenure has spanned three presidential election cycles, including in 2016, when the Russian government waged a covert campaign to interfere with U.S. election infrastructure, and in 2020, when false claims […]
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The Federal Communications Commission has reached a $13 million settlement with AT&T over a January 2023 data breach that was traced to one of its third-party cloud vendors. The breach, which resulted in the theft of information related to more than 8.9 million AT&T Mobility customers, happened through an unnamed company the telecom giant used […]
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The top Democrat on the House Administration Committee is signaling “strong support” for the Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing efforts to mandate disclosure of AI use in political ads, emphasizing transparency as essential as lawmakers assess how to regulate the technology in the future. In July, the FCC proposed a new regulation that would require broadcasters […]
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said information from RT employees indicate the media outlet is “functioning like a de facto arm” of the Russian government.
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Once a side issue, nearly every topic brought up during a House hearing on elections related to cybersecurity or false claims around election fraud.
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Once a side issue, nearly every topic brought up during a House hearing on elections related to cybersecurity or false claims around election fraud.
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The pop star said Trump’s deepfake post on Truth Social “really conjured up” her “fears around AI.”
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U.S. officials said they expect Russia, Iran and China to increase the cadence of influence operations targeting voters over the final two months of this election cycle.
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Director Jen Easterly and other leaders said engaging social media firms to remove inaccurate posts is “not our role.”
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