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Iran and the threatening “Proud Boys” emails

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Recode's Sara Morrison explains what we know about the emails and the latest indication of foreign interference in the election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So last week two things happened.

0:05.0

One was a number of people said they got threatening emails

0:12.9

demanding they vote for Trump.

0:14.8

The emails appear to be from people affiliated

0:18.0

with the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group.

0:21.3

That's thing one.

0:22.1

Thing two is a few days later the FBI holds a

0:24.4

press conference and announced that Iran and Russia had obtained voter

0:28.1

registration information and that Iran had been sending quote

0:31.9

spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters.

0:35.6

We are standing before you now to give you the confidence

0:39.4

that we are on top of this and providing you

0:42.2

with the most powerful weapon we have

0:45.0

to combat these efforts, the truth.

0:48.0

So with so much misinformation and voter suppression happening right now,

0:52.0

what makes these spoof emails stand out?

0:55.6

Recodes Sarah Morrison's here to explain.

0:57.4

Hey Sarah.

0:58.1

Hey, how you doing, Teddy?

0:59.6

So lots of things we don't know still,

1:01.3

but what we do know, can you tell us exactly what these

1:04.0

emails said so emails that I've seen they basically say like you know name we know

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