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Microsoft takes down massive hacking operation that could have affected the election
Microsoft has disrupted a massive hacking operation that it said could have indirectly affected election infrastructure if allowed to continue. The company said Monday it took down the servers behind Trickbot, an enormous malware network that criminals were using to launch other cyberattacks, including a strain of highly potent ransomware.
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Trump or Biden? Peruvian shamans try to predict U.S. election winner
With incense smoke, flowers and photos of President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden, Peruvian shamans performed an ancestral ritual on Wednesday for the U.S. elections, but there was little agreement about who would win the Nov. 3 ballot.
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New Big Data Sentiment Analysis Show Potential Biden Election Landslide
LUX Election 2020, a big data analysis program running on a supercomputer shows a growing divide in voter sentiment, with Democrat Joe Biden gathering positive sentiment, even among Republicans.
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Facebook says it is ready for violent unrest in the US election, and has plans to restrict the spread of inflammatory posts
Nick Clegg, Facebook's head of global affairs, told The Financial Times that the company is preparing in case of chaos after the November election.
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Russian state hackers are targeting Biden and Trump campaigns, MSFT warns
Fancy Bear—the Russian state hacking group that brought you the smash-and-leak attacks on the Democratic National Committee and World Anti-Doping Agency, the NotPetya worm that inflicted billions of dollars of damage worldwide, and the VPN Filter compromise of 500,000 routers—is targeting organizations involved in elections taking place in the US and UK, Microsoft has warned.
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Five Ways Trump And GOP Officials Are Undermining The Election Process
There has long been conflict in the United States over who gets to vote and how. In the years since Barack Obama’s election as president, those voting debates have become increasingly partisan, with Republican elected officials often pushing measures like requiring photo IDs that make it harder for people to vote, and Democratic officials advancing provisions like same-day registration that make it easier to vote.
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Trump just admitted he's stalling pandemic relief to make it harder to vote
With coronavirus throwing US election planning into chaos, you'd think the White House would be doing everything in its power to ensure safe voting. But Donald Trump seems to be doing the opposite, writes David Lipson.
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Trump admits he is undermining USPS to make it harder to vote by mail
The president says he opposes providing additional money to the postal service to help it deliver mail-in ballots
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The US is offering bounties of $10 million to anyone who can catch hackers meddling in the presidential election
With less than four months to go until the presidential 2020 election, the US has decided to offer a $10 million bounty to anyone who can find foreign hackers trying to meddle in the election. The State Department on Wednesday announced its Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program is offering bounties on any information that could lead to the identification or location of: "any person who works with or for a foreign government for the purpose of interfering with US elections through certain illegal cyber activities."
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Trump encourages mail voting in Florida but sues in Nevada
In an abrupt reversal, President Donald Trump is encouraging voters in the critical swing state of Florida to vote by mail after months of criticizing the practice — and while his campaign and the GOP challenge Nevada over its new vote-by-mail law.
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Trump Can’t Delay the Election—So He’s Trying to Make It a Chaotic Mess
Trump is losing. So he’s lying. The way to counter his lies is with facts and an action plan for easy, safe, and fair voting on November 3.
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States sue Trump over order to exclude undocumented immigrants from U.S. House seat counts
A coalition of 35 U.S. states, cities and counties sued President Donald Trump on Friday over his directive not to count undocumented immigrants when apportioning seats for the House of Representatives, a move that critics have said is designed to help Republicans.
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How to resist Russia’s attempts to troll Americans during presidential campaign – Democratic Europe without Borders
With the approaching of another presidential elections in US, the news outlets became increasingly worried of the anticipated Russian interference. Well, you may think you have already come up with your choice of the candidate and feel yourself confident in the atmosphere of another Russian information attack being immune to all this stuff.
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How To Read Polls In 2020
We’re about to enter the thick of general-election season, which means we’re about to get a boatload of polls. Problem is, it can be hard to know which polls to…
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Republican victory in California special election undercuts Trump's unfounded claims about mail-in voting
As President Donald Trump held forth in the Cabinet Room on Wednesday railing against voting by mail, the Republican candidate in a hotly contested special election in California was being declared the winner after voting was conducted almost entirely by mail.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Drops Out Of The 2020 Presidential Race
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren ended her bid for the presidency on Thursday, acknowledging her place as the last major female candidate in the race "and all those little girls who are gonna have to wait four more years." The decision comes after disappointing finishes in all nominating contests so far, including Super Tuesday. She hasn't won or come in second in any states — and finished third even in her home state of Massachusetts.
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Biden vs. Bernie: Who's tougher on tech?
The tech industry apparently really doesn't want Bernie Sanders to be president, but would a President Joe Biden be any more pro tech?
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America’s crisis of trust and the one candidate who gets it
Rebuilding social and political trust requires procedural reforms that don’t excite voters.
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Coronavirus May Disrupt the 2020 Election. We Need a Plan
Quarantines and fear could decimate voter turnout. Congress needs to fund mail-in ballots nationwide now.
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Bernie Sanders’ surge in the polls could hit the S&P 500 with Iowa Caucus vote due this week, analysts warn
Bernie Sanders rise in the polls for the 2020 U.S. presidential election this winter has been accompanied by equally impressive gains in the stock market, at least before last week’s selloff, and the recent volatility could be a taste of what’s to come if his star continues to rise, analysts told MarketWatch.
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