![]() “I would say I have concerns about the system,” he said. But he does wonder about the voting system, he said. He said he mostly worries about the influence of money on elections. “We're seeing more in-person direct action resulting from these conspiracy theories, such as people showing up to ballot drop boxes here in Arizona, armed,” he said.Ī Falstaff, Arizona, man who gave his name as Fred was having lunch with his parents in Tempe last week. While online disinformation particularly from foreign actors is not new, he said, what is new is people taking action. “My concern is that foreign actors can spread disinformation and conspiracy theories through social media and kind of pit Americans against each other in a way they wouldn't be, left to their own devices,” he said.Ī voter casts their ballot at a secure ballot drop box at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, Nov. A mathematician from Tucson, Murphy said he worries about the real-world consequences of online misinformation. In Tempe, Arizona, Dylan Murphy was in town for work. Twitter also took down three networks associated with Iran, the report said. A representative for the Chinese embassy in Washington denied that the country was behind the accounts, the Post reported. Twitter took down China-based operations on its site that were trying to influence the U.S. ![]() Recorded Future analysts will be monitoring chatter if the online discussions start to shift, he said. “As much as they talk about election denial and voter fraud, I remain concerned that maybe these accounts come Election Day would attempt to provoke some sort of violence or harassment of poll workers at polling stations and things like that,” he said. Chinese operatives highlight the volume of online anxiety about the integrity of the vote as evidence that American democracy is not working. voting system can’t be trusted, Liston said. Russian operatives sow division that the U.S. adversaries such as Russia, China and Iran.įake news sites by organizations associated with these governments promote divisive stories about America that are then promoted by fake social media personas pretending to be Americans. Liston is among a network of researchers, cybersecurity experts, government agencies and others that comb through social media, websites, state media and law enforcement announcements to track coordinated disinformation campaigns stemming from U.S. “We saw these accounts beginning to spin up, talking about election fraud or that the election was going to be fraudulent, with ballot stuffing and things like that, or Democrats are going to try to steal the election,” said Liston, who works for Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm. social media accounts believed to be from Russia. For most of 2022, senior intelligence analyst Brian Liston noted it was quiet on the fake U.S.
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