Hacker News with Generative AI: Election Interference

X Prevents Research on Potential Election Interference (freiheitsrechte.org)
The social media platform X denied researchers access to public data on its platform. Together with Democracy Reporting International (DRI), we achieved a major success in summary proceedings.

Social Media, Election Interference, Research, Lawsuits

59 points by doener 16 days ago | 35 comments

U.S. sanctions Russian and Iranian entities over attempted election interference (nbcnews.com)
The U.S. announced Tuesday that it is leveling sanctions on entities in Iran and Russia over attempted election interference.

Politics, International Relations, Security, Sanctions, Election Interference

5 points by cannibalXxx 65 days ago | 0 comments

Russia and China rigged Romanian Elections using 10M fake TikTok accounts (kyivinsider.com)
Everyone in Romania knew that Russians had somehow rigged last week’s first-round presidential election but weren’t sure just yet as to how they did it. Today we got the answer.

Politics, Social Media, Election Interference, Romania, Russia

87 points by latexr 91 days ago | 87 comments

Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People's Twitter Accounts to Promote Donald Trump (techdirt.com)
How quickly do you think we’d be having Congressional hearings about “election interference” if Mark Zuckerberg so much as posted a “Harris/Walz” lawn sign in front of his house? Yet, Elon Musk is now directly tweaking the site he owns to push his favored political candidate, even seizing people’s accounts to promote Trump.

Politics, Social Media, Censorship, Election Interference, Elon Musk

13 points by hn_acker 149 days ago | 3 comments

Foreign operations are manipulating social media to influence your views (theconversation.com)
Foreign influence campaigns, or information operations, have been widespread in the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Social Media, Foreign Influence, Election Interference, Political Campaigns, United States

12 points by rntn 149 days ago | 0 comments

Meta blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier over election interference concerns (theverge.com)
Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign.

Social Media, Politics, Cybersecurity, Election Interference

74 points by DevScout 159 days ago | 32 comments

Google, Microsoft confirm Iran hackers hacking Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns (thebreach.report)

Cybersecurity, Politics, Hacking, Election Interference

9 points by darktobor 198 days ago | 0 comments

Meta says: Russia's AI tactics for US election interference are failing (theguardian.com)

Politics, AI, Russia, United States, Election Interference

8 points by wslh 202 days ago | 0 comments