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The World Next Week

Meddling in U.S. Elections, Florida Reels from Twin Storms, Nobel Peace Laureate to Be Named, and More

The World Next Week

Council on Foreign Relations

Politics, News, News:politics

4.6845 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Intelligence officials warn of foreign meddling in the U.S. presidential and congressional elections; Hurricane Milton marks second straight weather blow to the U.S. southeast; this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced in Norway; and Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico vows to block Ukraine’s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).   Mentioned on the Podcast   The U.S. Election and Foreign Policy, CFR.org   Virtual Media Briefing: Technology and Electoral Dynamics, Council on Foreign Relations and Brookings Institution   “Malala Yousafzai: Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2014,” Nobel Prize For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/meddling-us-elections-florida-reels-twin-storms-nobel-peace-laureate-be-named-and-more

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0:00.0

In the coming week, U.S. intelligence officials warn of foreign meddling in the U.S. elections.

0:06.0

Florida seeks to recover from back-to-back historic storms, and this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced in Norway.

0:12.0

It's October 10, 20, 24 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

0:27.1

And I'm Carly and Robbins.

0:28.8

So Carla, let's kick off with that meddling mentioned.

0:32.4

On Monday, U.S. intelligence officials reported that Russia and China are targeting congressional

0:37.3

races using a combination of fake websites, social media accounts, and social media. intelligence officials reported that Russia and China are targeting congressional races

0:37.6

using a combination of fake websites, social media accounts, and so forth to spread misinformation

0:43.0

about the campaigns. What should we know about these threats and their scale and how serious?

0:49.3

Let's be clear, especially in these very nervous and fraught times, that U.S. officials, from federal

0:55.9

government to local election officials, your neighbors, say there has been no evidence in previous

1:02.4

elections, and they see no evidence of tampering right now in the integrity of U.S. voting

1:07.2

systems.

1:08.4

So if you're going to hear disinformation about that, they are not raising

1:11.9

that alarm. We have the benefit, of course, that there is no central election system here.

1:18.1

There's nothing central to hack. So we are protected from that. Venezuela dictators,

1:25.1

smartmatic, all of that other stuff that we heard before.

1:28.3

That's not what they're talking about here, and that stuff was, as they delicately say,

1:33.3

I'm not going to delicately say what it was, but it was.

1:37.3

What is being tampered with is the public psyche.

1:41.3

And U.S. officials are, you know, worrying. There's domestic disinformation, there's foreign

1:48.7

disinformation, and worrying because this is breaking down trust in the system and trust in

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