All posts tagged "electoral interference"

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  Russia’s elections toolkit: dollars, disruption and disinformation

  Hack and leak, astroturfing, perception hacking, reputation laundering: Russia has devised an armoury of new techniques to weaken and distract its opponents. In this second part of our investigation into

  • Posted January 21, 2024
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  Challenges to US election are ‘anti-democratic’, says former Republican House Speaker

  Republican legislators’ attempts to challenge states’ electoral college votes are “anti-democratic and anti-conservative”, former Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has said, arguing that attempts to “sow doubt about

  • Posted January 5, 2021
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  Global internet freedom falls for ninth consecutive year, watchdog finds

  Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, leading to digital authoritarianism and causing global internet freedom to decline for the ninth

  • Posted November 14, 2019
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  Controversial “fake news” law passed in Singapore

  Singapore’s parliament has passed legislation aimed at halting the spread of fake news, after the government said the country could be vulnerable to the spread of disinformation online. The Protection

  • Posted May 20, 2019
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  New international centre to challenge state-led fake news and cyber attacks

  An international centre to spearhead research into how to combat novel forms of ‘hybrid’ warfare is being set up in Helsinki. The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats

  • Posted April 18, 2017
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