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
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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