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Election Cybersecurity
The Cybersecurity 202: The security of future elections could ride on this one’s outcome
Joseph Marks and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Nov. 6, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Artificial intelligence shows potential to gauge voter sentiment
Jared Council and John McCormick / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 6, 2020
Trolls target elderly widower online who lost three family members to Covid-19
Max Stephens / The Telegraph / Nov. 6, 2020
This hacking group is using previously unknown tools to target defence contractors
Danny Palmer / ZDNet / Nov. 6, 2020
A brief insight into waging war between healthcare and cybersecurity
Preetipadma / Analytics Insight / Nov. 6, 2020
Government learns that authenticators are key of modernization
CyberScoop Staff / CyberScoop / Nov. 6, 2020
Remote education is rife with threats to student privacy
Nir Kshetri / The Conversation / Nov. 6, 2020
New tech should support student and faculty needs, campus innovation officials say
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / Nov. 6, 2020
US seizes $1bn in bitcoin linked to Silk Road site
Alex Hern / The Guardian / Nov. 6, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
EU urges online platforms to gird for new wave of COVID consumer scams
Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Vietnamese hacking group Ocean Lotus uses imitation news sites to spread malware
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop / Nov. 6, 2020
European consumer groups begin suing over data breaches
Catherine Stupp / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 6, 2020
Google, Walmart’s PhonePe hit by India’s move to limit some digital payments players
Sankalp Phartiyal and Nupur Anand / Reuters / Nov. 5, 2020
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. 6, 2020
Inside China Tech: Alibaba weighs Ant impact while 5G struggles to gain ground
SCMP Reporters / Nov. 6, 2020
China’s semiconductors: Latest US export controls may hinder ambitions to catch up
Coco Feng and Masha Borak / South China Morning Post / Nov. 6, 2020
Tencent insists it is a collaborator, not a disrupter, of China’s financial markets
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post / Nov. 6, 2020
Italy’s Campari says hackers encrypted and stole data
Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites
Alex Hern / The Guardian / Nov. 6, 2020
AI is reducing Indian cotton farmers’ pesticide use
Puja Das / Analytics Insight / Nov. 6, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Election misinformation tests Big Tech platforms
Ina Fried / Axios / Nov. 6, 2020
Will Trump’s false election claims gain steam? Disinformation experts weigh in
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian / Nov. 5, 2020
How claims of dead Michigan voters spread faster than the facts
Jack Nicas / The New York Times / Nov. 6, 2020
How viral videos helped blast voting lies across the Web
Drew Harwell / The Washington Post / Nov. 6, 2020
The Technology 202: Trump is turning to traditional media to amplify false claims as Twitter cracks down
Cat Zakrzewski and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Nov. 6, 2020
To stay or cut away? As Trump makes baseless claims, TV networks are faced with a serious dilemma
Denis Muller / The Conversation / Nov. 6, 2020
Twitter removes fake AP account that called election for Biden
Cameron Jenkins / The Hill / Nov. 6, 2020
GoFundMe takes down conservative fundraiser’s page for election misinformation
Matthew Choi / POLITICO / Nov. 6, 2020
Senator Lindsey Graham backs Trump, echoing baseless claims of election fraud – video
The Guardian / Nov. 6, 2020
Trump will no longer receive special Twitter treatment if he loses election
Alex Hern and Kari Paul / The Guardian / Nov. 6, 2020
GOP splits over Trump’s false election claims, unfounded fraud allegations
Katie Shepherd / The Washington Post / Nov. 6, 2020
Tea party-linked activists protest against ‘election fraud’ in US cities
Lois Beckett / The Guardian / Nov. 6, 2020
Steve Bannon pulled off YouTube and Twitter after calling for ‘heads on pikes’ like in Tudor England
Morgan Meaker / The Telegraph / Nov. 6, 2020
Thousands of Facebook Groups buzzed with calls for violence ahead of U.S. election
Katie Paul / Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Fact check: TV news clip digitally altered to include adult entertainment site logo
Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Fact check: Video doesn’t show a Maryland election worker tampering with ballots
Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Fact check: Table shows outdated voter registration numbers for 15 states
Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Fact check: Video shows mail waste, not shredded Trump ballots
Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Op-Ed: Why can’t a generation that grew up online spot the misinformation in front of them?
Sam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv / Los Angeles Times / Nov. 6, 2020
Can the law stop internet bots from undressing you?
Jo-Ann Pattinson and Subhajit Basu / The Conversation / Nov. 6, 2020
Facebook removes ‘inauthentic’ networks spanning 8 nations
Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Georgia’s battleground status signals changing electoral map in the South
Cameron McWhirter / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 6, 2020
Georgia state likely to go through recount in US presidential election – secretary of state
Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Judges in two states reject Trump campaign lawsuits as the president continues to press unsubstantiated claims of fraud
Amy Gardner / The Washington Post / Nov. 6, 2020
USPS rushes to deliver another 2,000 ballots in Pennsylvania, North Carolina before deadline
Kyle Cheney / POLITICO / Nov. 6, 2020
Supreme Court’s Alito tells Pennsylvania counties to separate late ballots
Andrew Chung / Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Pennsylvania court orders some provisional election ballots set aside
Tom Hals and Lawrence Hurley / Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
Two men charged with gun offenses near Philadelphia vote counting center
Ted Hesson and Ned Parker / Reuters / Nov. 6, 2020
How votes are counted in Pennsylvania: Changing numbers are a sign of transparency, not fraud, during an ongoing process
Kristin Kanthak / The Conversation / Nov. 6, 2020
How Florida became America’s vote-counting model
Jeb Bush / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 6, 2020
Why is the Nevada vote count taking so long?
The Guardian / Nov. 6, 2020
Column: In Orange County, pretending coronavirus is fake news wins you elections
Gustavo Arellano / Los Angeles Times / Nov. 6, 2020
Counties with worst virus surges overwhelmingly voted Trump
Carla K. Johnson et al. / The Associated Press / Nov. 6, 2020
Postal Service delivers 40,000 more ballots after court-ordered sweep
Cameron Jenkins / The Hill / Nov. 6, 2002
Electionland 2020: How Election Day went
Rachel Glickhouse / ProPublica / Nov. 6, 2020
The 2020 election meltdown that didn’t happen, even amid the covid pandemic
Nathaniel Persily and Charles Stewart III / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 6, 2020
The Trump campaign is suing over voting procedures. A look at the lawsuits.
Deanna Paul / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 6, 2020
Twitter users dub network hosts reading election results ‘Chartthrobs’
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill / Nov. 6, 2020