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Fret about listed Chinese firms, not GameStop
News, Shuli Ren, Published on 06/02/2021
» With all the bubbling frenzy around GameStop Corp, it's time to step back and look at how the broader market is doing. It turns out, there's froth elsewhere, too. Look no further than the Chinese companies listed in the US.
For election hackers, a new, more dangerous tool
News, Michael Chertoff & Eileen Donahoe, Published on 15/11/2018
» The election interference tactics originally deployed by Russia against the United States and Europe are now global. Hackers across the democratic world have exploited weaknesses in campaign email servers; probed electronic voting machines for vulnerabilities; set up troll farms to spread highly-partisan narratives; and employed armies of bots to distort the truth online. Tech experts in countries such as Iran and Venezuela have borrowed these tactics and joined efforts toward the same goals: to erode confidence in electoral processes and in democratic governance itself.
No magic bullet for fake news
News, Kelly Born, Published on 16/07/2018
» Ever since the November 2016 US presidential election highlighted the vulnerability of digital channels as purveyors of "fake news", the debate over how to counter disinformation has not gone away. We have come a long way in the eight months since Facebook, Google, and Twitter executives appeared before Congress to answer questions about how Russian sources exploited their platforms to influence the election. But if there is one thing that has been made clear, it's that there is no silver bullet.