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Election Cybersecurity
The Cybersecurity 202: More states now have paper trails to verify votes were correctly counted
Joseph Marks and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Nov. 5, 2020
Officials on alert for potential cyber threats after a quiet Election Day
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Nov. 5, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Chicago, Denver voted to take broadband ‘seriously’ on Tuesday
Ryan Johnston / StateScoop / Nov. 5, 2020
Covid-19 vaccine safety efforts to feature app tracking of vulnerable groups
Peter Loftus / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 5, 2020
DOJ seizes $1 billion in cryptocurrency tied to Silk Road dark web
Tim Starks / CyberScoop / Nov. 5, 2020
Pentagon actively working to combat adversarial AI
Dave Nyczepir / Fedscoop / Nov. 5, 2020
Uber posts third-quarter loss as pandemic continues to hurt rides
Preetika Rana / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 5, 2020
Uber CEO talks exporting Prop 22 after mixed earnings report
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios / Nov. 5, 2020
Fintech innovators duck government regulators
Felix Salmon / Axios / Nov. 5, 2020
For Big Tech, what follows ‘free expression’?
Joel Simon / Columbia Journalism Review / Nov. 5, 2020
Qualcomm sees 5G smartphone sales taking off
Asa Fitch / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 4, 2020
Wisconsin hope cloud will speed processing of unemployment claims
Phil Goldstein / StateTech Magazine / Nov. 5, 2020
Is artificial intelligence racially biased in healthcare?
Puja Das / Analytics Insight / Nov. 4, 2020
UCLA creates hate-crime map for a more complete picture
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / Nov. 5, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
5G has been heralded as a tech game changer but consumers in China are underwhelmed by spotty coverage and hard sell
Iris Deng and Celia Chen / South China Morning Post / Nov. 5, 2020
Alibaba evaluates response to shelved Ant IPO as quarterly revenue rises 30 per cent
Jane Zhang and Minghe Hu / South China Morning Post / Nov. 5, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Secretaries of State in spotlight as Trump ratchets up attacks to sow doubt
Shane Goldmacher / The New York Times / Nov. 5, 2020
Virginia elections officials say social media posts led to unfounded fears, confusion about ballot counting
Laura Vozzella, Antonio Olivo, and Gregory S. Schneider / The Washington Post / Nov. 5, 2020
Fake polling place or service to the community? Questions swirl around ‘ballot room’ in OC’s Little Saigon
Anh Do et al. / Los Angeles Times / Nov. 5, 2020
How ‘SharpieGate’ went from online chatter to Trumpworld strategy in Arizona
Tina Nguyen and Mark Scott / POLITICO / Nov. 5, 2020
Arizona secretary of state says alleged voter Sharpie problems a ‘nonissue’
Cameron Jenkins / The Hill / Nov. 5, 2020
TikTok: false posts about US election reach hundreds of thousands
Kari Paul / The Guardian / Nov. 5, 2020
Officials warn delayed vote count could lead to flood of disinformation
Rebecca Klar and Maggie Miller / The Hill / Nov. 5, 2020
5 types of misinformation to watch out for while ballots are being counted – and after
Kate Starbird et al. / The Conversation / Nov. 5, 2020
YouTube fails to remove video falsely declaring Trump victory
Alex Hern / The Guardian / Nov. 5, 2020
YouTube channels making money from ads, memberships amplify Trump voting fraud claims
Paresh Dave / Reuters / Nov. 5, 2020
Tech’s misinformation fight: Winning the battle, not the war
Ashley Gold and Kyle Daly / Axios / Nov. 5, 2020
Facebook groups are turning into election disinformation vectors
Ashley Gold / Axios / Nov. 5, 2020
Facebook confirms new steps to curb election misinformation
Kyle Daly / Axios / Nov. 5, 2020
Facebook curtails misleading posts, live video as election misinformation spreads
Steven Overly / POLITICO / Nov. 5, 2020
‘Worrying calls for violence’ prompt Facebook to remove rapidly growing pro-Trump group
Elizabeth Culliford et al. / Reuters / Nov. 5, 2020
Civil Rights group, watchdog formally request Twitter suspend Trump’s account over disinformation
Rebecca Klar / The Hill / Nov. 5, 2020
Trump falsely accuses Democrats of trying to ‘steal’ the election
Chris Megerian and Eli Stokols / Los Angeles Times / Nov. 5, 2020
Trump’s campaign and family boost bogus conspiracy theories in a bid to undermine vote count
Isaac Stanley-Becker et al. / The Washington Post / Nov. 5, 2020
Fake Twitter accounts posing as news organizations prematurely declare election victories
Dustin Volz et al. / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 5, 2020
President Trump’s false claims of vote fraud: A chronology
Glenn Kessler and Salvador Rizzo / The Washington Post / Nov. 5, 2020
The Technology 202: Trump’s Twitter feed is covered in warning labels
Cat Zakrzewski and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Nov. 5, 2020
MSNBC cuts away from Trump’s address after he again falsely declares election victory – video
The Guardian / Nov. 5, 2020
QAnon is winning
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic / Nov. 5, 2020
Fact check: Table shows outdated voter registration numbers for eight key states
Reuters / Nov. 5, 2020
Fact check: Viral video does not show Trump ballots being burned
Reuters / Nov. 5, 2020
U.S. seizes more Iranian websites, citing disinformation
William Turton / Bloomberg / Nov. 4, 2020
‘Spreading like wildfire’: Facebook fights hate speech before Myanmar poll
Fanny Potkin and Poppy McPherson / Reuters / Nov. 5, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Why Fox News analyst Arnon Mishkin called Arizona for Biden on election night
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times / Nov. 5, 2020
Election judge worked despite COVID-19 diagnosis, then died
Jim Salter / The Associated Press / Nov. 4, 2020
Powerful, wealthy interest groups keep tight grip on California proposition system
John Myers / Los Angeles Times / Nov. 5, 2020
After winning Prop. 22, Lyft president says he still wants a deal with unions
Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times / Nov. 5, 2020
Pennsylvania official says several hundred thousand ballots need to be counted
Reuters / Nov. 5, 2020
Trump campaign loses legal fights in Georgia and Michigan, vows Nevada lawsuit
Tom Hals and Jan Wolfe / Reuters / Nov. 5, 2020
What if there’s a recount in the presidential race? Here are the rules in the closest states
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times / Nov. 5, 2020
The uninvited guest at Election Day polls: COVID-19 virus
Kristen Jordan Shamus and Omari Sankofa II / Detroit Free Press / Nov. 4, 2020
Fears rise for safety of election workers in battleground states
Jeff Seldin / Voice of America / Nov. 5, 2020
States expanded voting access for the pandemic. The changes might stick.
Matt Vasilogambros and Lindsey Van Ness / The Pew Charitable Trusts / Nov. 6, 2020
USPS processed 150,000 ballots after Election Day, jeopardizing thousands of votes
Jacob Bogage and Christopher Ingraham / The Washington Post / Nov. 5, 2020
Postal Service is ordered by judge to search for remaining ballots
Rebecca Smith et al. / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 5, 2020
For the Postal Service, a Frantic Election Day Turns to Finger-Pointing the Day After
Maryam Jameel and Ryan McCarthy / ProPublica / Nov. 4, 2020
Why are election results taking so long? State-by-state look at electoral votes
WSJ Staff / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 5, 2020
Election 2020: Trump’s lawsuits are getting mixed results
Corinne Ramey et al. / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 5, 2020
John King, CNN’s master of election maps, has slept just 6.5 hours since Tuesday
Christi Carras / Los Angeles Times / Nov. 5, 2020
Congress could select the president in a disputed election
Donald Brand / The Conversation / Nov. 5, 2020