Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
USC in the News
BIG STORY: Voting at risk in S.C. due to coordinated cyberthreats, experts say
Lindsay Street / Statehouse Report / July 31, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Three people are charged in Twitter hack
Robert McMillan / The Wall Street Journal / July 31, 2020
Cyber Daily: FBI probe finds errors in surveillance warrants didn’t undermine cases; Europe sanctions alleged hackers linked to China, North Korea and Russia
The Wall Street Journal / July 31, 2020
TikTok faces U.S. breakup from Chinese parent as Microsoft circles: sources
Echo Wang et al. / Reuters / July 31, 2020
Influencer exits. Ban threats. Can TikTok weather the storm?
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times / July 31, 2020
Silicon Valley wallets unscathed
Alexandra S. Levine / POLITICO / JULY 31, 2020
The tech titans go (virtually) to Washington
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review / July 31, 2020
Who will choose the next US president – the American people, or Facebook?
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian / July 31, 2020
Facebook’s Looted-Artifact Problem
Jenna Scatena / The Atlantic / July 31, 2020
Survey of Philadelphia open-data portal finds wide use in academic and nonprofit work
Ryan Johnston / StateScoop / July 31, 2020
How AI can help government agencies respond to disasters
Phil Goldstein / StateTech Magazine / July 30, 2020
Why Georgia State’s new cybersecurity workforce program is different
Colin Wood / EdScoop / July 31, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
China’s ministry at the forefront of US technology rivalry gets a new chief
Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post / July 31, 2020
China’s 5G subscriber numbers to get a correction as carriers ordered to ‘clean up’ sales practices
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post / July 31, 2020
Chinese facial recognition developer nears $1.5 billion funding round
Dan Primack / Axios / July 31, 2020
How Europe Is Fighting Chinese Influence
Jimmy Quinn / The National Review / July 31, 2020
Exclusive: TikTok owner ByteDance considers listing China business in Hong Kong or Shanghai – sources
Yingzhi Yang and Julie Zhu / Reuters / July 30, 2020
Challenge accepted: Turkish feminists spell out real meaning of hashtag
Bethan McKernan / The Guardian / July 31, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Google announces steps to counter spread of hacked materials before election
Leah Nylen / POLITICO / July 31, 2020
Twitter bans account of former KKK leader David Duke
Neha Malara and Amy Caren Daniel / Reuters / July 31, 2020
Voting by mail is popular. So is the false idea that it’s ripe for fraud.
Giovanni Russonello / The New York Times / July 31, 2020
Adobe to ban political ads on its online ad-sales platform
Emily Glazer and Patience Haggin / The Wall Street Journal / July 31, 2020
Some Facebook ad boycotters return – but plenty of big players are staying away
Sahil Patel and Nat Ives / The Wall Street Journal / July 31, 2020
Fact check: Supreme Court did not allow federal officers “to take control of any rioting city in America”, claim stems from satire
Reuters Fact Check Team / July 31, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Predicted mail ballot flood will make it ‘almost impossible’ for R.I. to know winners on Election Night
Dan McGowan / The Boston Globe / July 31, 2020
Rhode Island may call in National Guard to help with mail ballots this year
Dan McGowan / The Boston Globe / July 28, 2020
LWV of Ohio Files Lawsuit to Correct Flawed Signature Match Process for Absentee Ballots
Kayla Vix / League of Women Voters / July 31, 2020
Kansas workers quarantined days before primary election
The Associated Press / July 31, 2020
Ky. Secretary of State Doesn’t Want Universal Mail-In Voting in November
Ryland Barton / 89.3 WFPL / July 28, 2020
How Wisconsin’s 23,000 rejected absentee ballots could spell trouble for the November election
Tom Scheck et al. / Wisconsin Watch / July 23, 2020
Maryland election board told state faces ‘emergency,’ is short 14,000 judges due to pandemic
Jeff Barker / The Baltimore Sun / July 23, 2020
Exclusive: Republicans, Democrats agree on one thing: Doubt about fair election – Reuters/Ipsos poll
John Whitesides and Chris Kahn / Reuters / July 31, 2020
Coronavirus creates election worker shortage ahead of November
Zach Montellaro / POLITICO / July 31, 2020
Despite virus threat, Black voters wary of voting by mail
Corey Williams / The Associated Press / July 31, 2020
Senate Democrats press Postal Service on delivery complaints
David Shepardson / Reuters / July 31, 2020
States begin modifying general election voting procedures in response to COVID-19 outbreak
Jerrick Adams / Ballotpedia News / July 29, 2020
Opinion: Young people could decide the 2020 election. Will a pandemic derail that?
Katherine Hu / Los Angeles Times / July 31, 2020
In Era of Sickness, Doctors Prescribe Unusual Cure: Voting
Farah Stockman / The New York Times / July 30, 2020
Poll: 70 percent of Americans support voting by mail
Jonathan Easley / The Hill / July 30, 2020
30 years after the ADA, access to voting for people with disabilities is still an issue
Jeanine Santucci / USA Today / July 26, 2020
Citing coronavirus, Hong Kong postpones legislative elections for a year
Natasha Khan / The Wall Street Journal / July 31, 2020