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Election Cybersecurity
Senate panel’s Russia probe found counterintelligence risks in Trump’s 2016 campaign
Dustin Volz and Warren P. Strobel / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 18, 2020
8 Takeaways from the Senate committee report on Russian interference
Julian E. Barnes and Charlie Savage / The New York Times / Aug. 18, 2020
How a new federal policy telling election officials about cyber-intrusions got put to use
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / Aug. 17, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
The Cybersecurity 202: The partisan split on voting security extends to the nominating conventions
Joseph Marks and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Aug. 17, 2020
What’s left on the congressional cyber agenda
Tim Starks / POLITICO / Aug. 17, 2020
Ex-DHS officials urge department to double down on its cybersecurity work
Sean Lyngaas / WorkScoop / Aug. 13, 2020
North Carolina’s virtual classrooms crashed on the first day of school
Ryan Johnston / StateScoop / Aug. 17, 2020
Epic Games asks judge to block Apple’s removal of ‘Fortnite’ from app store
Stephen Nellis / Reuters / Aug. 17, 2020
Congress still has questions for Big Tech CEOs
Cristiano Lima / POLITICO / Aug. 17, 2020
Oracle in talks with TikTok that could hijack Microsoft bid
Alex Hern / The Guardian / Aug. 18, 2020
Is TikTok getting banned in the U.S.? It’s complicated. Here’s everything you need to know
Bowdeya Tweh / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 17, 2020
Pennsylvania to pilot Google-Apple contact tracing app next week
Ryan Johnston / StateScoop / Aug. 18, 2020
Courts have embraced videoconferencing amid the pandemic
Phil Goldstein / StateTech Magazine / Aug. 18, 2020
Researchers at Facebook AI, NYU Langone push speed limits of MRI
Steven Rosenbush / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 18, 2020
How modern tech helps police in the city of Arlington stay connected
Adam Stone / StateTech Magazine / Aug. 17, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Taiwan accuses Chinese hackers of targeting its citizens’ data
Debby Wu / Bloomberg / Aug. 19, 2020
Huawei faces ‘impossible’ challenge after latest US tech sanctions, say analysts
Jane Zhang and Che Pan / South China Morning Post / Aug. 18, 2020
US further tightens restrictions on Huawei’s access to chips
Jodi Xu Klein / South China Morning Post / Aug. 18, 2020
The great tech decoupling is here
Ina Fried / Axios / Aug. 17, 2020
European contact-tracing apps stumble on privacy concerns, glitches
Catherine Stupp / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 17, 2020
Google says Australian antitrust law would hit small content creators
Renju Jose / Reuters / Aug. 16, 2020
Google urges YouTubers around the world to swamp Australian regulator with complaints
Amanda Meade / The Guardian / Aug. 18, 2020
Artificial intelligence drives Indian economy towards growth
Adilin Beatrice / Analytics Insight / Aug. 18, 2020
Artificial intelligence helps Canadian Tire navigate pandemic
Vinod Sreeharsha / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 17, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Anti-vaccination group sues Facebook over ‘censoring’ posts
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill / Aug. 18, 2020
Is QAnon taking over America? Not so fast
Adam E. Enders and Joseph E. Uscinski / The Guardian / Aug. 18, 2020
What is QAnon? What we know about the conspiracy theory
Eleanore Park / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 17, 2020
Exhaustive bipartisan Senate investigation finds ‘no credible evidence’ for Seth Rich conspiracy theory
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone / Aug. 18, 2020
Misinformation Monitor: August 2020
Gabby Deutch / NewsGuard / Aug. 2020
TikTok starts website to take on rumors, misinformation
Nathan Crooks / Bloomberg / Aug. 17, 2020
Google giving far-right users’ data to law enforcement, documents reveal
Jason Wilson / The Guardian / Aug. 17, 2020
Google’s open letter to Australians about news code contains ‘misinformation’, ACCC says
Naaman Zhou / The Guardian / Aug. 17, 2020
Coronavirus doctors battle another scourge: misinformation
Adam Satariano / The New York Times / Aug. 17, 2020
Fake COVID-19 testing kits and lockdown puppy scams: how to protect yourself from fraud in a pandemic
Cassandra Cross / The Conversation / Aug. 18, 2020
Fact check: Nancy Pelosi does not want to “remove votes” from soldiers overseas
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / Aug. 18, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Floridians are voting by mail in huge numbers in today’s primary
The Associated Press / Los Angeles Times / Aug. 18, 2020
New Mexico pushes forward with emergency voting reforms
Morgan Lee / The Associated Press / Aug. 18, 2020
Louisiana’s Covid test proposal would exclude ‘thousands’ from mail-in voting
Sam Levine / The Guardian / Aug. 18, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic and fee requirements mean fewer Florida felons than anticipated will register to vote
Associated Press / Los Angeles Times / Aug. 16, 2020
SC Senate called back to “protect voters and the vote”
Meg Kinnard / The Associated Press News / Aug. 17, 2020
USPS to suspend changes until after election
Natalie Andrews et al. / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 18, 2020
States turn to courts over postal changes
Josh Gerstein / POLITICO / Aug. 18, 2020
Voters sue Postal Service and Trump over changes ahead of election
Matthew Choi and Daniel Lippman / POLITICO / Aug. 17, 2020
House expected to vote on USPS legislation on Saturday
Axios / Aug. 17, 2020
The USPS and the 2020 election: What you need to know
Alexa Corse / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 16, 2020
Postal crisis has states looking for alternatives to mail-in ballots
Nick Corasaniti / The New York Times / Aug. 17, 2020
Ballot drop boxes seen as a way to bypass the post office
Astrid Galvan and Christina A. Cassidy / The Associated Press / Aug. 18, 2020
Media giants launch voting efforts ahead of the election
Sara Fischer / Axios / Aug. 17, 2020
Pro sports teams offer up empty arenas for voting in the fall
Zach Montellaro / POLITICO / Aug. 18, 2020
Information overload on night one of the Democrats’ virtual convention
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review / Aug. 18, 2020
It’s Convention Time: 2 Minute Speeches, No Pomp, A Forlorn Milwaukee
Astead W. Herndon and Reid J. Epstein / The New York Times / Aug. 18, 2020
During Covid-19 pandemic, political parties go without conventional perks
Julie Bykowicz / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 17, 2020
Pandemic alters political conventions – which have always changed with the times
Daniel Klinghard / The Conversation / Aug. 17, 2020
How to make sure your vote counts in November
Amy Dacey / The Conversation / Aug. 18, 2020
New coronavirus outbreak prompts New Zealand to postpone election
Stephen Wright / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 16, 2020