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Oh! This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross. In these final days

before election day, how much do we know about foreign efforts to influence

voters and the outcome of the election.

How many bots and deep fakes and fake news stories planted by Russia, Iran, or other countries

have been seen by voters who believed they were authentic. This is the first presidential

campaign since the creation of a new group within the intelligence community

that's responsible for discovering and defeating foreign efforts to

influence voters and to warn voters and lessen the effectiveness of foreign influence.

It's called the Foreign Maline Influence Center and it was created in 2022. My guest David Kurt Patrick, a staff writer at the New Yorker,

has written a long article about the center and the role of the larger

intelligence community and the Justice Department in determining what

voters get to know and when they get to know it. The article is also about what

we've learned so far about foreign influence in this presidential campaign and lessons learned from the past.

The article is titled The U.S. Spies who sound the alarm about election interference.

David Kirkpatrick, welcome back to Fresh Air. interference. investigate Russian attempts to influence voters and have an impact on the results of the elections,

but the Russians didn't say, okay, you got me, we're done.

But this time around, like as far as I can tell, not that much attention is being paid to foreign

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