I its monday, november 25th early today starts right now. Good to be with you im france mena. Welcome to one of the busiest weeks of holiday travel. The first of several major storms has already hit the northeast. Heavy snow has fallen in ohio creating dangerous Road Conditions and wintry weather has arrived to parts of pennsylvania where Severe Weather alert was issued for more on these storms that threaten holiday travelers, heres nbcs dave price. Reporter cars sliding off roads in massachusetts icy roads in ohio causing multiple accidents sending four to the hospital. Its a ract nature. A wintry mix in the midwest and northeast creating chaos for some of the 55 Million People expected to travel this week high winds forced a ground stop at Dulles International and delays at newark and boston. Over 4 million passengers expected to fly this week. Thats up nearly 5 from last year im a positive thinker, so i just think, okay, were going to leave on time. A little nervous getting out toda
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac officers, getting them security clearances, it has some pieces in there around Public Disclosure. When an election system is hacked, releasing that information when appropriate to the public. It has some Public Disclosure around the specifics and unclassified version of what happened in 2016. It has some language in there for hardening of systems and this is where i think we might get the gettest bang for our buck is hardening our systems for 2020 and creating an accountability trail so we can do what i think laura said which is when there is when they are able to get into your systems or when they are able to be a presence in the system, whether or not they changed the tabulations or changed voter registration, that leaves people open and vulnerable to the Information Operations that is the second wave of that. And so i think those pieces are likely to become law. They are and the mos
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac you see how blatant their efforts were to get involved in the 2016 election. I think weve seen influence operations coming out of china, iran. I know camille will talk about this in greater detail. And we need to be honest. Its us. Were doing a lot to promote the disinformation ourselves. Sometimes were doing it at the behest or with the encouragement of foreign actors. Sometimes were doing it on our own because of various extreme views which foreign actors amplify. But its not just the adversary thats doing it. It involves our own citizens, some of whom take extreme positions and exploit these techniques and these kinds of technologies in order to propagate them. There are two things that are on the horizon that we need to think about that can even take this to the next level. One is the use of socalled Artificial Intelligence. Again, the amount of data that is out there about what people a
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Democracy regarding Disinformation Campaigns. The remarks came during the symposium hosted by the office of the federal commission chair, pan america and Stanford University cyber policy centers digital incubator. This is two hours. We have a very important guest with a limited timeframe. So were going to get started. I am Ellen Weintraub, the chair from the federal Election Commission and im delighted to welcome you to digital disinformation and the threat to democracy information integrity in the 2020 elections. A symposium i am cosponsoring with pan america and stanfords Global Policy inkub incubator. This has weaponized our most cherished freedoms to sow disorder. Here in the u. S. , we saw russia deploy disinformation as one of its tools when in the words of the Mueller Report, the russian government interfered in the 2016 president ial election in sweeping and systemic fashion. Alarms are being sounded throughout Americas Intelligence Community in the halls of congress, by the de