Most Americans believe that foreign propagandists will once again hijack major social networks to meddle in the November election, a new survey finds.
Morning Consult’s survey of 2,046 self-identified social network users found that 56% believe big networks such as Facebook and Twitter can’t be trusted to control the problem of organized disinformation campaigns on their platforms. The survey was taken over the weekend following the July 15 hijacking of the Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Kayne West, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and many public figures, ostensibly to run a bitcoin scam.
Twitter says the hackers targeted 130 accounts and successfully breached 45 of them. The hackers reset the passwords for those accounts and then were able to begin posting from them. They could also view the personal information of the account holders.
With the November election approaching, the Twitter breach caused some in political circles to immediately wonder if the DMs of candidates or…
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