Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave A sophisticated Chinese Communist Party effort to tip Saturday’s election in Taiwan may establish a template for interfering elsewhere ahead of a wave of critical global elections, analysts in multiple countries said. The close contest between the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the more mainland-friendly Kuomintang … Read more
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A prominent expert in online disinformation campaigns, Joan Donovan, says Meta pushed her former employer Harvard to shutter a major research project on media manipulation. Donovan, who led Harvard’s Technology and Social Change Project (TaSC) until it ended this year, revealed her allegations earlier this week in a whistleblower complaint obtained by The Washington Post. … Read more
CHISINAU, Moldova — Moldovans are casting ballots in nationwide local elections on Sunday as authorities say that Russia has been conducting “hybrid warfare” to undermine the vote in the European Union candidate country. While local elections in Moldova, a country of about 2.5 million people situated between Romania and Ukraine, wouldn’t usually garner much international … Read more
GUATEMALA CITY — GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — (asterisk)(asterisk) TO MOVE AT 0400 GMT(asterisk)(asterisk) The Guatemalan authorities’s clumsy interference with its presidential election has tturned a worldwide highlight on a rustic whose struggles with deep corruption had obtained restricted worldwide consideration. President Alejandro Giammattei was deeply unpopular at residence, however aside from occasional statements of reprobation … Read more