,1,With midterm elections heating up, so are attempts to shake voter confidence in the process.
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are warning that "foreign actors," unlikely to see any notable success in hacking voting infrastructure, would be more inclined to sow the seeds of doubt via misinformation campaigns online.
According to an FBI alert, the attacks could take the form of spoofed websites (nefarious sites intended to appear like legitimate online news sources), fake social media personas, and dark media web channels.
Phil Napoli, a Duke University professor of Public Policy and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, said by spreading and amplifying false claims of a compromised voting process, these foreign actors are seeking to create distrust in the elections process itself.
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