Gentlemen. Pleased on behalf of the Penn State Dickinson School of law, penn state institute for constitutional sciences, the center for democracy and technology, and the center for justice to welcome you to what i consider to be a very timely, and honestly a very, very important form and symposium. At the outset, i want to thank all of the participants regarding and incredible array of speakers dissipating in the forum. I want to thank the guests who have taken the time to join us this morning, and i also want to reach out and say thank you to cspan for covering something that all of us, i think regardless of republican, democrat, or independent, think is quickly important. It is undisputed that there are people who have been hacking into our elections for a long, long time. Indisputable. S we can start with 2016, and i think we can look back before that, we might have seen there were people playing around in that arena, even before that time, so we decided to get these organizations,
Thank you very much. People fromwith dickinson. What we thought we would do with this section is to make it interactive, audience participation. We are very interested. We have many of our panelists that have remained. We would like them to respond and to participate in this session as well. We want to continue our discussion about the disparate provisions and the negative impact of social media. It is appropriate to let colleagues from penn state to initiate the conversation. Gentlemen, you may proceed. Hello. Thirdyear student at Dickinson School of law. Hello, everybody. My name is brian and i am also a thirdyear student. Happy to be here. So if we could, there we have heard a lot of interesting topics. Im glad we have so many excellent experts on hand with us. We are going to start it rolling a little bit. Talk somewhato about the technology hurdles, or if we have thoughts about ways that we can detect or combat short of this maligned social engineering that you see, mostly with mi
The center for democracy, technology and the center for justice to welcome you to what i consider to be a very timely, obviously a very, very important forming symposium. At the outset i want to thank all the participants. An incredible array of speakers, guests who have taken the time to address this subject and cspan, regardless of republican, democrat or independent think is critically important. Its undisputed that there are people that have been hacking into our elections for a long, long time. The evidence is indisputable. We can start with 2016, but i think if we look back before that we might have seen there are people playing around in that arena even before that time. We decided to get together to pull together a symposium to deal with hacking in u. S. Elections and how to make the 2020 election more secure. So were grateful that they could join us this morning. Some of you in the audience probably remember, but i did happen to talk to some of my colleagues from Penn State Di
The truth and erode our ability to fight, creating a set of it that no narrative or use source can be trusted at all. Some of the ttts in this space wont necessarily come as as a surprise to you but we talked about intrusion and u. S. Government networks and medical organizations, hack and leak operations related to compromise or embarrassing situations, Cyber Attacks against our eroding infrastructure, the targeting of u. S. Persons or elected officials by social media and disinformation, suppression of voter turnout by spreading misinformation regarding polling and voting, manipulation of media through the injection of false stories, and news reporting. And then subsequent application of the disinformation to shape of the discourse. Shape Public Discourse. There are a few overarching similarities regarding the manner in which our two principal adversaries, china and russia, execute these objectives. Both countries use a whole of government approach. And use sophisticated and aggressi
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