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Nate Persily and Alex Stamos on Securing American Elections

Nate Persily and Alex Stamos on Securing American Elections

FromThe Lawfare Podcast


Nate Persily and Alex Stamos on Securing American Elections

FromThe Lawfare Podcast

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Jun 12, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

More than two years after the 2016 presidential election, new information continues to seep into the public about the extent of Russia's sweeping and systematic efforts to interfere in the U.S. democratic process. With the 2020 presidential election on the horizon, last week, Stanford's Cyber Policy Center published a report on securing American elections, including recommendations on how the U.S. can protect elections and election infrastructure from foreign actors. On Monday, Susan Hennessey spoke with two of the report's authors: Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center's Internet Observatory and former Chief Security Officer of Facebook, and Nate Persily, Stanford law professor and expert on election administration. They talked about what happened in 2016, and the enormously complex landscape of defending not just election infrastructure but also preserving the integrity of the information ecosystems in which Americans make their decisions about how to vote, including the possible consequences of regulating foreign media.
Released:
Jun 12, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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