Feature Two US intelligence bigwigs last week issued stark warnings about foreign threats to American election integrity and security – and the nation's ability to counter these adversaries.
"This election cycle, the US will face more adversaries, moving at a faster pace, and enabled by new technology," warned FBI director Christopher Wray, speaking at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance breakfast on Thursday.
"Advances in generative AI, for instance, are lowering the barrier to entry – making it easier for both more and less-sophisticated foreign adversaries to engage in malign influence, while making foreign-influence efforts by players old and new more realistic and difficult to detect," Wray continued.
A few days earlier, US senator Mark Warner (D-VA), who chairs the Senate's Intelligence Committee, told Trellix CEO Bryan Palma that the United States is less prepared to combat foreign intervention in the 2024 elections than was the case in 2020.
In addition to China, Russia, Iran, and other nations meddling in American politics this year, homegrown criminals remain a very real menace to free and fair elections.
On Wednesday, an Alabama man was arrested for allegedly using social media to threaten election workers in Phoenix at around the time of Arizona's primary elections in August 2022.
"[Y]ou people are so ducking [sic] stupid," 59-year-old Brian Jerry Ogstad, of Cullman, allegedly posted, later accusing the election workers of treason and claiming "You will all be executed."
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