#election-interference

#election-interference

What in the hell were FBI agents doing in an election facility in Fulton county, Georgia, last week? They surely weren't investigating a crime. Nor were they serving the public. Justifying President Trump's Big Lie about winning the 2020 election may seem like his own lost cause but like his Confederate forebears, he is weaponizing it, damage be damned. Not even his subsequent election victory has quieted Trump's appetite for more power, earned or otherwise.

A group of researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale warn that the rise of AI bots and AI agents could pose a serious threat to democracy. For example, power-hungry politicians around the world can relatively easily create swarms of AI bots that flood social media and messaging services with propaganda and disinformation. In this way, they can not only influence election results but also persuade parts of the population to replace parliamentary democracy with an authoritarian regime.

We are moving into a new phase of informational warfare on social media platforms where technological advancements have made the classic bot approach outdated,

Theoretically, what happens if there is election interference and the people who are responsible for that are not held accountable? Democratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal asked. It becomes the new norm, and that becomes how we conduct elections, Smith replied, according to the transcript. And so the toll on our democracy, if you had to describe that, what would that be? the congresswoman asked. Catastrophic, Smith said.

He has refused to rule out using military force to take control of Greenland and repeatedly floated the idea of making Canada the 51st state. He threatened to seize the Panama canal. He has imposed swingeing tariffs on key partners, and says he might abandon the Canada-Mexico trade pact signed in his first term. He has meddled outrageously in elections in Honduras and Argentina, and sought to interfere with Brazilian justice.

Gay Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) reminded Donald Trump that he cannot issue a presidential pardon for former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters. Peters was convicted of election interference in state court in August 2024, and presidential pardons cannot exonerate state-level criminal convictions. As such, Peters will continue to serve the rest of her nine-year sentence, even though Trump has threatened "harsh measures" if she isn't freed.

Looks like Honduras is trying to change the results of their Presidential Election. If they do, there will be hell to pay!

Farage said at a Reform press conference on Monday, "I well remember the Wilson report two decades ago saying the BBC were not covering areas like Europe and immigration with any sense of impartiality. And you could add on to that net zero, climate change, their interpretation of the horrors that have happened in Gaza and now of course the US president."

After the 2020 election, Cleta Mitchell, then a partner at Foley & Lardner, participated in the infamous phone call in which Trump tried to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes, which was one more than Trump's margin of defeat in the state. Raffensperger denied Trump's baseless claims of fraud. Mitchell later alleged that Raffensperger was simply not correct. After the call became public, Mitchell resigned from Foley & Lardner.

HONIG: Well, so that's my question. I know I'm here to answer questions. What's the crime? I mean, what's even the potential crime? I mean, seriously, I'm not trying to be confrontational here. Can anyone at this table even articulate what the potential crime might be?

Maria Bartiromo criticized those who opposed her pursuit of truth regarding Russian election interference, suggesting they should feel ashamed for their attacks against her.

The birther conspiracy was not just a harmless political jab. It was designed to delegitimize the nation's first Black president in the eyes of white America.

The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government.

Brazil's Supreme Court confirmed that former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor and is facing numerous legal restrictions amid trial concerns regarding election interference.

Mackey's conviction was overturned as the 2nd Circuit found no evidence that his social media posts misled anyone into not voting, stating it was not proved he conspired with others.

President Trump's CIA Director John Ratcliffe tasked CIA analysts to review the agency's 2016 conclusions about Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election.