By Erik Brattberg & Tim Maurer Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Russia has been repeatedly accused of interfering in recent elections. But Sweden is determined it won’t fall victim to…
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Votes in 18 nations 'hacked' in last year
Elections in 18 separate nations were influenced by online disinformation campaigns last year, suggests research. Independent watchdog Freedom House looked at how online discourse was influenced by governments, bots and…
Kenya election 2017: Raila Odinga says election systems hacked
Kenya opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga has said the electoral commission’s IT system has been hacked to manipulate the election results. He rejected early results from Tuesday’s vote indicating a…
Ghana election commission website hit by cyber attack
Hackers have targeted the website of Ghana’s electoral commission as votes are counted after tightly contested elections. The commission says the website is up again, and an attempt to put…