The War on America’s 2024 Elections: How U.S. Adversaries Seek to Divide Americans and Undermine Trust
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While federal agencies and election officials repeatedly affirm the physical and cybersecurity of U.S. elections, a significant vulnerability remains — the public’s belief in the integrity of elections. Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran believe U.S. power presents a serious impediment to their ambitions and are taking concrete actions to target Americans. This is the latest battlefield of America’s adversaries, which are waging an ongoing and growing information war against Americans with the aim to divide and exacerbate existing tensions so that we are too distracted and weak to project U.S. power abroad. What specific actions are China, Russia, and Iran taking to undermine trust in the coming election? And how should we respond? How do these latest actions fit into their broader information war? FDD hosts a panel discussion featuring Suzanne Spaulding from the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Bradley Bowman, senior director of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power and editor of Cognitive Combat; RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, senior director of FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and co-author of an FDD memo on election interference; and FDD Research Fellow Ivana Stradner. The conversation will be moderated by Maggie Miller, cybersecurity reporter for Politico, with introductory remarks by FDD senior analyst on emerging threats Max Lesser. For more, check out: fdd.org/events/2024/10/31/the-war-on-americas-2024-elections-how-us-adversaries-seek-to-divide-americans-and-undermine-trust/
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