Craigslist founder Craig Newmark’s philanthropic organization will provide more than $1 million to the Global Cyber Alliance with the aim of securing media and election offices before the 2020 presidential election, GCA announced Tuesday. Craig Newmark Philanthropies will give $1.068 million to GCA, which has provided security tools to 7,300 public and private sector organizations, to protect journalists, secure voting-focused nonprofit organizations and enable election boards to invest in “cybersecurity protections to preserve election integrity,” GCA said in an announcement. The guidance will include tips from the Center for Internet Security’s top Critical Controls, which encourage planning, security audits and other best practices. The philanthropic organization has donated tens of millions to media organizations and journalism schools in recent years. It donated $1 million each to ProPublica and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in 2017, and $20 million last year to the City University of New York’s graduate program […]
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