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The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
- US intelligence community and law enforcement were on high alert due to foreign malign influence operations ahead of the 2024 US elections.
- Tech giants like Microsoft also collaborated with government partners to deal with election-related disinformation campaigns.
- Researchers have presented their initial findings on the role of attribution in the 2024 US elections at the Cyberwarcon security conference in Arlington, Virginia.
- In contrast to 2020, there was an abundance of claims by the US government of influence operations being conducted by different adversaries.
- 33 of the 84 influence operation attributions in 2020 US elections came from US intelligence or federal sources.
- 40 of the 80 attributions made this year by the US government concerning foreign influence campaigns.
- Specific information confirming that Russia had manufactured a video was a high-quality, useful attribution.
- Repeated statements warning generally about Russian influence operations can be less helpful in attributing campaigns.
- Statements about Russia, China, and Iran playing a role in Black Lives Matter protests may have been mismatched to the moment.
- Researchers note that there was valuable progress in the 2024 election cycle with transparency.
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