Election security

US election warning: Cyber attack expert cautions 2020 poll to be ‘dirtiest EVER’

THE US Presidential election will be won and lost online more than any other poll in history. But a digital propaganda expert believes digital misinformation and disinformation coupled with geopolitics will make this poll ‘the dirtiest ever'.
Dr Samuel Wooley, the co-founder of the Computational Propaganda Project at the University of Oxford, believes this election will be like no other, with voters both exploited and influenced by increasingly sophisticated technology and social media. He told Express.co.uk: “This year’s American presidential election will be the dirtiest and is going to be fraught with misinformation and disinformation.