Sentences with phrase «election influence operations»
A Carnegie Mellon scholar, Dov H. Levin, has scoured the historical record for both overt and covert election influence operations.
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Thursday's sanctions target Russians indicted last month as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election meddling on charges of conspiracy to interfere in the election by waging a social - media influence operation to sow discord and sway public opinion in the US in favor of Trump.
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The indictment of 13 Russians in the operation of a «troll farm» that spread false information related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election has renewed the spotlight on the power of «fake news» to influence public opinion.
The documents also discussed «Operation Angry Badger,» described by the New York Times as «a plan to spend $ 612,000 to influence the outcome of recall elections and related fights... in Wisconsin over the role of public - sector unions.»
Despite once saying that it was «crazy» to believe Russians influenced the 2016 election, Facebook knew about a possible operation as early as June, 2016, the Washington Post reports.
The election services branch of SCL, Cambridge Analytica created psychological profiles of voters for clients at SCL Group, which otherwise conducts «influence operations» on behalf of politicians and governments worldwide, which includes the use of political propaganda.
Social media companies such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have said they belatedly realized the extent of Russian espionage and influence operations on their networks during the 2016 election and are now taking more active steps to address the problem.
«There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations,» Mr. Coats added.
Facebook announced the findings in a blog post by its chief security officer, Alex Stamos, and said that it was cooperating with federal inquiries into influence operations during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
«There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 US midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations.»
The United States is still reeling from the effects of the 2016 presidential election, which the American intelligence community says was disrupted by Russian hacking and information influence operations.
The C.I.A. has a long history of so - called influence operations to help favored candidates in foreign elections with money or propaganda, and on a few occasions even helping overthrow elected leaders seen as hostile to the United States.
Cambridge Analytica's technique of pushing information onto the internet as described by Turnbull appears to bear some similarities to Russia's actions when it carried out a large - scale and widespread social media influence operation targeting the 2016 election.
The London - based data firm Cambridge Analytica was testing out slogans like «Drain the Swamp» and «Build the Wall» as early as 2014, the same year Russia launched its social media influence operation targeting the 2016 US election.
«The 2018 U.S. midterm elections are a potential target for Russian influence operations,» Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned in written testimony prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee's Tuesday hearing.