Politics

The Hill - In a panel discussion on CNN after the [South Carolina] race was called, Farah Griffin said the Republican party should be concerned that Haley was able to get 40 percent of the GOP primary vote — when her opponent was running with all the benefits of an incumbent candidate. “Somebody who’s running as virtually an incumbent — Donald Trump — getting 60 percent, and 40 percent being against him? That’s not a mandate,” she said. “Especially with the entire Republican party apparatus behind him, with most elected Republicans behind him.”

NBC - Russia is spreading disinformation ahead of the 2024 election, using fake online accounts to damage President Joe Biden and Democrats, according to former U.S. officials and cyber experts. The dissemination of these attacks is part of a continuing effort by Moscow to undercut American military aid to Ukraine and U.S. support for and solidarity with NATO, experts said.A similar effort is underway in Europe. France, Germany and Poland said this month that Russia has launched a barrage of propaganda to try to influence European parliamentary elections in June. U.S. officials are concerned that Russia could try to further interfere in the 2024 presidential election through "deepfake" audio or video using artificial intelligence tools, or through a "hack and leak," as it did with the theft of internal Democratic Party emails by Russian military intelligence operatives in 2016. Pro-Russia online propaganda campaigns that thrived on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook in 2016 are now routine on social media, though its rare for individual accounts to go viral as they once did.