Russian election interference Concepts

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth · 9 Feb 2021 · 651pp · 186,130 words

of decision-makers wondering how sharply to respond to the DNC hacks.” In other words, Snowden said, “somebody is sending a message” that retaliating against Russian election interference “could get messy fast.” At Cisco headquarters in Silicon Valley and the company’s satellite offices in Maryland—just ten miles from Fort Meade—threat

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it. This was all happening under an America First president who was temperamentally uninterested in complexity, who romanticized authoritarianism, and who dismissed any talk of Russian election interference as an elaborate “hoax.” That his trade war with China, his abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal, and his refusal to confront Putin directly might

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, see Michael D. Shear, “After Election, Trump’s Professed Love for Leaks Quickly Faded,” New York Times, February 15, 2017; Cristiano Lima, “Trump on RT: Russian Election Interference ‘Probably Unlikely,’ ” Politico, September 8, 2016; and First Presidential Debate, CNN, September 26, 2016. For further reading on John Brennan’s warning to Russia to

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

by Amy B. Zegart · 6 Nov 2021

, 273–74 Cyber Command, U.S., 260, 271–72, 274, 296n92 cyberspace, as inherently insecure, 255 cyber warfare: as often subtle and diffuse, 258–59; Russian election interference as, 253, 254; by U.S., 369n52 data: critical importance in modern world, 254–56; cyberattacks’ damage to trust in, 269–70; encryption, as issue

The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

by Ben Buchanan · 25 Feb 2020 · 443pp · 116,832 words

’s ongoing transition. The conventional wisdom seemed to have shifted: if the long-anticipated cyber Pearl Harbor had come, it had taken the form of Russian election interference (the subject of Chapter 10), not power grid sabotage related to a territorial dispute in Eastern Europe. With the benefit of hindsight, and thanks to

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book, the Shadow Brokers began with a post online. On August 13, 2016, amidst the drama of the summer election campaign and the slowly unfolding Russian election interference operation, they announced that the NSA’s tools were up for auction. The Shadow Brokers went on to clarify that they were talking not just

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, the United States entered a period of tumult. The Obama administration gave way to the Trump team. Newspapers outdid each other with juicy leaks about Russian election interference, the presidential transition, and other forms of political intrigue. “Fake news” and “post-truth” became household terms; the latter was Oxford English Dictionary’s 2016

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, 45; protection of data overseas, 56–61; pseudorandomness in, 66–70, 71, 72; public key encryption, 48–50; PURPLE, 109; randomness and, 65–70; in Russian election interference, 222; San Bernardino attack and, 41; SIGABA, 44, 45; signals intelligence and, 46; symmetric key encryption, 54; targeting of private cables, 57–59; during World

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt

by Sinan Aral · 14 Sep 2020 · 475pp · 134,707 words

misinformation through the Hype Machine, tracking how the design of platforms like Facebook and Twitter incentivize and enable the spread of misinformation (Chapter 2). Did Russian election interference change the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election? What should we do to stop the scourge of fake news in the 2020 election

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our elections. Lawmakers have advocated regulation. Multiple U.S. congressional committees are investigating the role of Facebook and the rest of the Hype Machine in Russian election interference and the spread of misinformation online. The Cambridge Analytica controversy, in which a political consultancy used stolen Facebook data on 87 million Americans to target

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change the result? And if so, did it successfully change people’s voting behavior enough to accomplish that goal? The Reach, Scope, and Targeting of Russian Election Interference During the 2016 election, Russian fake news spread to at least 126 million people on Facebook and garnered at least 76 million likes, comments, and

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views on the impact of the Hype Machine on business, democracy, and public health are simply wrong. Consider the U.S. Congress’s investigation of Russian election interference. Two studies released by the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2019 detail the reach and scope of Russian misinformation campaigns targeting hundreds of millions of U

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

by Roger McNamee · 1 Jan 2019 · 382pp · 105,819 words

the problems and restore trust.” By failing to exploit Chamath’s regrets as a teachable moment, Facebook signaled a commitment to avoiding responsibility for the Russian election interference and all the other problems that had surfaced. This was bad news. I had been giving Facebook the benefit of the doubt since October 2016

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to harvest friends lists, its tolerance of hate speech, its willingness to align with authoritarians, and its attempts to cover up its role in the Russian election interference are all symptoms of a business that prioritized growth metrics over all other factors. Was this not just business as usual? Even if the country

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it where they could. Their challenge was made easier by the wide range of harms. It was hard to keep up. Anecdotes like Cambridge Analytica, Russian election interference, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and the rising suicide rate among teens attracted attention, but most users could not understand how products they trusted could possibly

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media on the 2016 election. In addition, I want to thank Geralyn White Dreyfous, Karim Armer, and their documentary team for digging deep into the Russian election interference. Lucky accidents brought our team into the orbit of The Guardian and The Washington Post. In partnership with The Observer in the UK, The Guardian

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

by Thomas Rid

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An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang · 12 Jul 2021 · 372pp · 100,947 words

were the Russians? And why, asked a visibly agitated Sandberg, had she not known that Stamos had put together a special team to look at Russian election interference? Did they need to share what Stamos had found with lawmakers immediately, and did the company have a legal obligation beyond that? Stamos was in

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, in the Aquarium, Stamos gave a somber assessment of where they stood, admitting that no one at the company knew the full extent of the Russian election interference. Zuckerberg demanded that the executives get him answers, so they promised to devote their top engineering talent and resources to investigate what Russia had done

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administration. At the close of the meeting, Zuckerberg and Sandberg agreed that Stamos and others should redouble efforts to get to the root of the Russian election interference. The new group formed to investigate if Russia had used Facebook to meddle in the election—which included Stamos and a handful of his security

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of his team. Worse yet, she had just told a sitting senator, one of the most powerful in Washington, that Facebook considered its investigation into Russian election interference complete. He dashed off an email to the threat intelligence team stressing the importance of developing a system to track down the Russian ads. If

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.S. voters were ongoing. The audit committee recommended that the full Facebook board be shown the presentation Stamos had prepared and that the subject of Russian election interference be raised to the top of the full board meeting, planned for the next day. It did not go well. “There was definitely yelling. There

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second time she had failed to control the press narrative around a Facebook scandal; he had also taken note of her failure to spin the Russian election interference and the fallout in Congress. Sandberg quietly told friends at the company about their exchange and voiced her concern that Zuckerberg might fire her. They

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Whetstone, insisted Zuckerberg appear on Swisher’s podcast. Senior members of the communications team prepped him on a range of issues Swisher would likely cover: Russian election interference, Cambridge Analytica, and privacy policies. The most recent controversy was over hate speech and misinformation. For months, individuals and public interest groups had hammered Facebook

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the New York Times were chasing. On November 14, 2018, the piece,18 which outlined how Facebook had delayed, denied, and deflected the truth about Russian election interference over a two-year period, finally ran. The story was the first to detail when Facebook first discovered that Russia had been trying to influence

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Max, then a toddler. They caught up on family and Facebook and life on opposite coasts. Hughes had been watching Facebook’s evolution with unease. Russian election interference, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the rise of hate speech transformed his unease into anger and guilt. Then, on April 24, 2019, he read Facebook

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right to “algorithmic amplification,” said Renée DiResta, who had become a widely recognized expert on social media companies and misinformation online from her work on Russian election interference. The technology created echo chambers of like-minded individuals sharing the same stories. Zuckerberg was having it both ways. Facebook had become as powerful as

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been prepped, by her advisers and comms staff, on how to answer. The company did not want a repeat of Zuckerberg’s 2016 comments labeling Russian election interference “a pretty crazy idea.” Highlight what Facebook has done to improve discourse on the platform and remove hate speech, Sandberg was told. Outline the huge

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behavioral advertising and, 59 Clegg’s op-ed in, 240 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and, 1 Hughes’ op-ed in, 219–222 Myanmar and, 186 Russian election interference and, 130, 215 New Yorker, The, 66 Newsom, Gavin, 266 Next One Billion project, of Facebook, 176–177 Nielsen, 56 Nuland, William, 147 Nuñez, Michael

Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News

by Clint Watts · 28 May 2018 · 324pp · 96,491 words

.S. and other countries are not unusual per se, but reigniting relations with the Kremlin amid two congressional investigations and a Special Counsel investigation into Russian election interference seemed strangely timed. The GOP statements regarding Russia only confirmed the exchange as a bizarre spectacle. “Most countries would meddle and play in our domestic

Facebook: The Inside Story

by Steven Levy · 25 Feb 2020 · 706pp · 202,591 words

and personally identifying information (PII), 474, 476 and privacy questions, 475 questionable categories in, 465–66 revenues from, 170, 178, 198, 275, 297, 477 and Russian election interference, 372–76, 377, 378–79 Sandberg’s policies for, 199–200 in sidebars, 181 social advertising, 180–81, 183, 185 success of, 198 targeted ads

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on FB, 363, 389 as founding ideal of Facebook, 111, 459 and News Feed feature, 142 and presidential election of 2016, 344, 357, 432 and Russian election interference, 376 Sandberg’s emphasis on, 470–71 standards for, 253–54, 340 Zuckerberg’s emphasis on, 111, 249, 254, 344, 357, 363, 459, 524 FriendFeed

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, 510 leadership changes in, 512 messaging service of, 509 origins of, 300–303 popularity of, 5, 12, 302–3, 507–8 revenues from, 489, 508 Russian election interference via, 374, 489 Stories feature, 497–99, 507 Instant Articles feature, 387, 388 Instant Messenger as inspiration for later apps, 43 and Saverin’s termination

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2016, 9, 355, 357 recruiting efforts of, 200–201 recruitment of, 193–94 and Ressa’s warnings, 435 role of, in FB, 194–95 and Russian election interference, 378, 380 and security team, 335–36 and Stamos’s security report, 364, 366–67 and Stamos takedown, 380 and WhatsApp, 504 work style of

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delay in releasing news to public, 377 on delay of sharing Russian ads with Congress, 378 and FTC investigations, 272 on privacy model, 267 and Russian election interference, 366, 374, 377 and Senate Judiciary hearing, 395–96 Students Against Facebook News Feed, 140–41, 142 Stutzman, Fred, 144 Su, Sarah, 436 suicides on

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, 360, 494 and fake news disseminated on FB, 10 on marriage of Chan and Zuckerberg, 293 Ressa’s comment on election win of, 348 and Russian election interference, 366, 378, 379 Twitter account of, 340 Trump presidential campaign, 2016 anti-Hillary ads run by, 353 and Cambridge Analytica, 399, 420, 421, 427 effort

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words

“Top Tech Companies Met with Intelligence Officials to Discuss Midterms”80 “Facebook Identifies New Influence Operations Spanning Globe”81 “How the U.S. Is Fighting Russian Election Interference”82 While some internal resistance to publishing an expanded version of our misrepresentation policy remained, the tide had turned. Bit by bit, Silicon Valley started

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://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/technology/facebook-political-influence-midterms.html. 82 Michael Wines and Julian E. Barnes, “How the U.S. Is Fighting Russian Election Interference,” New York Times, August 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/us/politics/russia-election-interference.html. 83 Kent Walker, “Supporting election integrity