“A new report shows Russians impersonated Muslims online to sow political chaos.” More …
Elections
Fake News on Twitter Flooded Swing States That Helped Trump Win
“A new study reveals how junk content—including from Russia—hit Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, and beyond.” More …
Zuckerberg Blew Off Russian Troll Warnings Before the Attack on America
“The 2016 presidential election wasn’t the first time Russian trolls used Facebook to mess with another country’s political system. And it wasn’t the first time Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered a weak defense of his company’s role in facilitating Russian online aggression.” More …
Trump’s ‘Election Integrity’ Group is Waging War on the Right to Vote
“The president’s commission lead by Kris Kobach, a champion of repressive voting laws, could do significant damage to hard-won voting rights.” More …
Committee to Investigate Russia
“The Russian Active Measures campaign aimed at the United States has been exposed. Using hacking, Twitter armies, and fake news, the Kremlin engaged in an aggressive effort to subvert the American democratic process. Now, only months into his term of office, the President and his staff are facing multiple investigations in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and by a Special Counsel for the Department of Justice. The Committee to Investigate Russia is a nonprofit, non-partisan resource provided to help Americans recognize and understand the gravity of Russia’s continuing attacks on our democracy. ” More …
Russians Appear to Use Facebook to Push Trump Rallies in 17 U.S. Cities
‘Being Patriotic,’ a Facebook group uncovered by The Daily Beast, is the first evidence of suspected Russian provocateurs explicitly mobilizing Trump supporters in real life. More …
Federal Government Notifies 21 States of Election Hacking
“The federal government on Friday told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems before last year’s presidential election. The notification came roughly a year after U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials first said states were targeted by hacking efforts possibly connected to Russia. The states that told The Associated Press they had been targeted included some key political battlegrounds, such as Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.” More …
Team Trump Turns to Rove Playbook to Juice 2018 GOP Turnout
“Republicans are considering putting hot-button initiatives on the ballot to excite the base when little else currently is.” More …
How Facebook Changed the Spy Game
“Any doubt that Russia has been running a strategically targeted disinformation campaign in the United States was erased on Wednesday, when Facebook revealed that it had deleted 470 ‘inauthentic’ accounts that were based in Russia and had paid $100,000 to promote divisive ads during the 2016 presidential election.” More …
Repressing the Ballot in New Hampshire
“If states are the laboratories of democracy, New Hampshire is serving
as a testing ground for the party’s Trump-era strategy on voting.A new Republican-backed New Hampshire state law known as SB 3 tightens the rules for people who register and vote on the same day—about 11 percent of all New Hampshire voters last November. These would-be voters can be hit with a $5,000 fine if they vote and can’t show documentary proof of where they live.” More …