Lawfare Archive: Alex Stamos on Fighting Election Disinformation in Real Time
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🗓️ 18 May 2024
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From August 20, 2020: This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Alex Stamos, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and former chief security officer of Yahoo and Facebook. Alex has appeared on the podcast before, but this time, they discussed a new coalition he helped set up called the Election Integrity Partnership—a coalition focused on detecting and mitigating attempts to limit voting or delegitimize election results. Disinformation and misinformation around the U.S. presidential election has already started popping up online, and it’s only going to increase as November draws closer. The coalition aims to counter this in real time. So how will it actually work?
They also asked Alex for his hot takes on TikTok—the popular video sharing platform facing pressure over concern about influence from the Chinese government.
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| 0:16.4 | slash Lawfair. Also check out Lawfair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, lawfire with an episode from the lawfare Archive for May 18th, |
| 0:45.1 | 2024. |
| 0:46.7 | The 2024 presidential election is quickly approaching, with November only six months away. |
| 0:52.2 | The race between the two candidates, |
| 0:53.7 | former President Donald Trump and Joe Biden |
| 0:56.2 | is set to begin with the first debate scheduled for June 27th. |
| 1:00.1 | As November draws closer, concerns of election misinformation and disinformation are rising. |
| 1:05.8 | For today's episode, I chose an episode from August 20, 2020. |
| 1:10.3 | In the episode, Evelyn Wek and Qua Jurassic spoke with Alex Seemos to discuss a coalition |
| 1:15.8 | Stemos set up in 2020 entitled the Election Integrity Partnership, which focused on detecting |
| 1:21.9 | and mitigating attempts to limit voting or delegitimize election results. |
| 1:27.0 | They talked about the increase in disinformation and misinformation as the 2020 presidential election loomed in the future, |
| 1:33.0 | how the coalition worked to counter the online discourse of false information, |
| 1:37.0 | and more. I'm Quinta Jarecic and this is the Law Fair Podcast, August 20, 2020. |
| 1:53.4 | This week on our Arbiters of Truth Series on Disinformation, Evelyn Duack and I spoke with |
| 1:58.4 | Alex Stamos, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, and the former chief security officer of Yahoo. the were having him on to discuss a new coalition he helped set up, called the Election Integrity Partnership. |
| 2:16.3 | A group focused on detecting and mitigating attempts to limit voting or delegitimize election |
| 2:21.8 | results. |
| 2:23.0 | Disinformation and misinformation around the U.S. presidential election has already started popping up online, |
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