guns, talks of lynching. i ve been shown threats directed at election worker s children with the children s names, with the names of their school. the u.s. department of homeland security is offering state and local election officials training to deal with potential violence. and the u.s. department of justice has formed a multidivisional task force to fine and prosecute those making threats against them. still threats and retirements are potentially leading to critical election worker shortages. i ve heard from staff that, you know, some of them feel it may not be worth the risk any longer to be in this type of role. when we re hearing 30 to 50% of election workers have either left or are thinking about leaving, and that alone would be bad enough. but then we also have to consider what an employee might
they re asking a federal judge to take action against clean elections u.s.a. who they say are photographing and following voters at ballot drop boxes. two armed people in tactical gear are seen near a drop box in meta, arizona, but left when authorities arrived. u.s. attorney general says such actions will not stand. we have an obligation to prevent, to guarantee free and fair vote by everyone who s qualified to vote and will not permit voters to be intimidated. the u.s. department of homeland security says it s focused on the heightened threat environment blaming the situation on conspiracy theories about voter fraud. in the hours ahead, richshi sunak will be the new prime
inflict harm on twitter, its customers, and its shareholders. are you nervous? yeah, yeah. and of course, jake, that whole issue of bots is undoubtedly going to become a big part of that court case between elon musk and twitter which is happening in delaware in october, but just more immediately, as some news in the last few minutes from zacho s team, the whistleblower s team, he is in washington, d.c. this week and he s going to be taking part in closed door briefings with teams on capitol hill, so he is certainly going nowhere quietly. a huge scoop from donie o sullivan, thank you for your diligent reporting. let s bring in chris comiskey, he serves as the acting undersecretary for management at the u.s. department of homeland security. thank you for being here. this is disturbing information, thisexecutive accusing them of issues that threaten national security, and chuck grassley says he has deep
well, the disinformation governance board was a body that was meant to advise the many parts of the department of homeland security that were working on disinformation. to bring best practices to bear, and to make sure that we were up with the latest research , the latest trends, in disinformation and countering it and make sure that work was being done in a way that protected freedom of speech, protected civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy. what the republicans and frankly some on the far left as well, spun, was that this disinformation governance board was going to be a ministry of truth. there is no absolutely no foundation for that, in fact, the disinformation governance board was never meant to police speech, it was not going to police speech and frankly, brian, i have written and researched about government efforts to do just that, i am against them just like many americans are, and if that were part of the job description, i
best, he is a deputy director at nyu, he told the times, we are basically at this point, unable to have a calm discussion about the problem. there is a weird circular looping around effect, the problem itself is helping make us unable to talk about the problem. think about that. the disinformation problem is making it harder to actually talk about the disinformation problem. now that sounds like a challenge. let s take it on. nina is the researcher who briefly led the disinformation governance board before it collapsed, she is the author of books like how to lose the information war and the new book, how to be a woman online. nina, welcome to reliable sources, thank you for coming on. thank you for having me. you have had time to process what went wrong this spring when you briefly were the executive director of this board and then had it all fall apart. let s start with what was the goal, what was the department of homeland security trying to do?