So glad you are here for the kickoff session on protecting democracy, foreign interference, voter confidence, and defensive strategies in 2020 election and beyond. Im Carrie Cordero of the center for new american security. We have two sessions this morning. This session will run until 10 45 a. M. Eastern, and i hope you will join us again at 11 30 a. M. Eastern for a session i will be moderating on foreign influence and voter attitudes. Todays conversations are part of a broader collaboration between the center for new american security, the center for ethics and the rule of law, which is part of penn law, and the annenberg Public Policy center, also on the university of pennsylvania. There i hand it over to moderator, this discussion is being livestreamed, and you can post your comments and questions on twitter using the protectdemocracy2020. Our team will be monitoring the monitoring the hash tag and pose your questions to the monitor. America may have been caught off but theres no t
The annenberg Public Policy center, also on the university of pennsylvania. There i hand it over to moderator, this discussion is being livestreamed, and you can post your comments and questions on twitter using the protectdemocracy2020. Our team will be monitoring the monitoring the hash tag and pose your questions to the monitor. America may have been caught off but theres no the samer falling for tricks again twice. Understand the influences around us, take steps take proactive steps to counter them, and work to strengthen our democracy. This collaboration is our effort to do just that. Im now going to turn the over to the professor claire finkelstein, my friend and faculty director of the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania law school, who is theleading voice on intersection of law, ethics, and national security. Willto claire, who introduce our guests for the session. Thank you soin much, carrie, and its a to have this with c nas. N more importa
The annenberg Public Policy center, also on the university of pennsylvania. There i hand it over to moderator, this discussion is being livestreamed, and you can post your comments and questions on twitter using the protectdemocracy2020. Our team will be monitoring the monitoring the hash tag and pose your questions to the monitor. America may have been caught off but theres no the samer falling for tricks again twice. Understand the influences around us, take steps take proactive steps to counter them, and work to strengthen our democracy. This collaboration is our effort to do just that. Im now going to turn the over to the professor claire finkelstein, my friend and faculty director of the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania law school, who is theleading voice on intersection of law, ethics, and national security. Willto claire, who introduce our guests for the session. Thank you soin much, carrie, and its a to have this with c nas. N more importa
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Sweeping and systematic, we now have a way to digest the conclusion that there was a lot of it out there. When people hear that, they need to hear that was not only droll activity which is folks pretending never us riding around in cyberspace but more importantly because the effect was clearer. The hackers who stole contacts. And then link it back into our system through front groups ultimately we can make and created the effect not on their own. Had our press been more careful, the media agenda would not have been reset the way it was by that act content. So no there was a lot, they downplayed the extent, a lot more than we initially knew. We knew it was across platforms and we know that its still there. As a platform shut down one place, it pops up in another. Its a little bit like likable. We have to keep working about this. Not just from the russians but other actors who might want to intervene in our elections. We heard from facebook that only about a hundred thousand dollars was