Cyber-enabled Nation-State Influence Operations: Are Russia, China, and Iran Interfering in the U.S. Election?

In recent years, nation-state interference in US elections has taken many forms, including hacking campaign accounts and databases, releasing confidential documents to the media, using fake social media accounts to amplify select messages, and employing AI-driven tools to spread disinformation. How can we avoid being influenced by outside actors?  This session will explore the latest evidence on malevolent state threats and how we can resist having our electoral process hijacked by them. 

This event is part of Carnegie Mellon University’s Deeper Conversations Initiative, established by President Farnam Jahanian, to bring together new and existing opportunities to explore divergent viewpoints and take a broader view on some of today’s most challenging issues. 

Speakers: 

• Darren Linvill, Professor, Co-Director, Watt Family Innovation Center Media Forensics Hub, Clemson University (panelist) 
• Bryan Prior, Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (panelist)
• Bret Schafer, Senior Fellow, Media and Digital Disinformation, Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States (panelist)

Moderator:

• Audrey Cronin, Director; Trustees Professor of Security and Technology, Director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (moderator) 
     

Questions? 
Contact CMUevents@andrew.cmu.edu.