We have an important guest with a limited timeframe, so we are going to get started. I am ellen weintraub, chair of the federal Election Commission and i am delighted to welcome you to digital disinformation and the threat to democracy, information integrity in the 2020 election. A symposium i am cosponsoring with pan america and the digital policy incubator. This information has become a newly potent threat in the digital era. It has weaponize dare most cherished freedoms, some discord and undermined democracies worldwide. In the west 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 systematic fashion. Alarms are being sounded throughout americas intelligence community, in the halls of congress by the departments of Homeland Security and justice, and by many of the experts who have generously taken time to speak to you today. They worn these attacks ar
We have an important guest with a limited timeframe, so we are going to get started. I am ellen weintraub, chair of the federal Election Commission and i am delighted to welcome you to digital disinformation and the threat to democracy, information integrity in the 2020 election. A symposium i am cosponsoring with pan america and the digital policy incubator. This information has become a newly potent threat in the digital era. It has weaponize dare most cherished freedoms, some discord and undermined democracies worldwide. In the west 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 systematic fashion. Alarms are being sounded throughout americas intelligence community, in the halls of congress by the departments of Homeland Security and justice, and by many of the experts who have generously taken time to speak to you today. They worn these attacks ar
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One of islams most important sites blown away in a matter of seconds. Supposedly by Islamic State. It is if at first you do not succeed, try again. U. S. Senators debate a new form of health care presented by republican to repeal and replace obamacare. And what investors on wall street make of it all. Good to have you with us. It is not often that we can report on an upbeat meeting of European Union leaders but that is exactly what happened tonight in brussels. This is the first summit since brexit talks began earlier this week. The british Prime Minister just announcing citizens from the eu will be allowed to stay in the u. K. After breakfast. The german chancellor Angela Merkel tonight speaking with a new sense of optimism. It may have all to do with the man from france. This is the first summit with the newly elected president macron. Correspondent all eyes on inaugural macron, emmanuel macron. On the european stage, leaders are already relying on him to infuse new life into the eu.
One of islams most important sites blown away in a matter of seconds. Supposedly by Islamic State. It is if at first you do not succeed, try again. U. S. Senators debate a new form of health care presented by republican to repeal and replace obamacare. And what investors on wall street make of it all. Good to have you with us. It is not often that we can report on an upbeat meeting of European Union leaders but that is exactly what happened tonight in brussels. This is the first summit since brexit talks began earlier this week. The british Prime Minister just announcing citizens from the eu will be allowed to stay in the u. K. After breakfast. The german chancellor Angela Merkel tonight speaking with a new sense of optimism. It may have all to do with the man from france. This is the first summit with the newly elected president macron. Correspondent all eyes on inaugural macron, emmanuel macron. On the european stage, leaders are already relying on him to infuse new life into the eu.