US accuses Iran of hacking Trump and Harris presidential campaigns
The World
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🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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US intelligence officials say they’ve confirmed findings made by Google cybersecurity researchers that Iran has tried to hack the Trump and Harris presidential campaigns. Also, Slovakia’s culture minister has fired the directors of the Slovak National Gallery and the country’s most influential theater, which the artistic community says is a crackdown on artistic expression. And, a legal debate on who own the rights to the diaries of Li Rui, once a top Chinese official and a personal secretary to Mao Zedong. Plus, a food blogger in Gaza who makes recipes using the ingredients from food aid packages handed out at refugee camps and anything else he can scrounge up.
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| 0:00.0 | US officials confirm an Iranian hack on the Trump campaign, one example of American adversaries seeking to spread disinformation. |
| 0:13.8 | Screwing with Americans' minds at a very big scale in creating as much chaos as possible. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:20.9 | And I'm Marco Werman. |
| 0:21.9 | More on that alleged hack. also the legal case about who gets to keep the personal diaries of a former Chinese Communist Party official |
| 0:29.0 | depositing them in a library that's a real research library where scholars can consult them as simply a move |
| 0:36.8 | toward historical truth. And the Habitat for Polar Bears is shrinking. There's no sort of conservation solution |
| 0:44.7 | for dealing with polar bears. |
| 0:46.4 | It's not like we can put in another park |
| 0:48.5 | or a protected area to save them. |
| 0:50.6 | For now, they're being pushed onto land and toward humans. |
| 0:54.0 | Today, here on the world. |
| 0:57.0 | This is the world. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm Marco Werman. Thank you for joining us today. |
| 1:04.8 | U.S. intelligence officials have now confirmed something put out by cyber security researchers |
| 1:09.0 | at Google last week. Iran has been trying to hack into the Trump and Harris presidential campaigns, and |
| 1:14.7 | they've had some success. |
| 1:16.4 | The Trump campaign's computer system was breached, according to the FBI and other federal |
| 1:21.4 | agencies. |
| 1:22.7 | But hacking by Iran goes far beyond the 2024 U.S. presidential race. |
| 1:27.4 | Omar bin Jacob covers cyber security and disinformation for the Israeli newspaper Harrets. |
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