Bots & Ballots

Bots & Ballots

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Bots & Ballots episodes

  • Michael Isikoff on why Obama didn't stop Russian meddling in 2016
    Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo, talks about the Obama administration's response to Putin's actions in the 2016 presidential election.

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    25 min
  • Kim Zetter on hacking Georgia election and lawyer David Cross on stopping it
    Kim Zetter, author of "Countdown to Zero Day," discusses a case of a missing server in Georgia's election system and David Cross, a lawyer with Morrison & Foerster, talks about a lawsuit against the state to get Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to adopt paper ballots.

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    24 min
  • Alexander Malkevich is the head of USAReally and says he's not a troll
    Alexander Malkevich, the editor of USA Really, a website with ties to the Russian groups indicted by Robert Mueller, says his website isn't fake news.

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    18 min
  • Washington Post editor Marc Fisher on the story of QAnon
    Marc Fisher of the Washington Post talks about how technology and the president have super-charged conspiracies.

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    21 min
  • FBI agent Clint Watts on how Russia worked to get Trump elected
    Clint Watts is a former FBI officer who watched Russia's disinformation campaign for the 2016 election develop. He talks about what we can expect for 2018.

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    30 min
  • Author Adam Fisher on the complex politics of Silicon Valley
    Adam Fisher, author of "Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom," talks about the libertarian roots of tech and how the Valley ended up (nearly) all-in on Clinton in 2016.

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    16 min
  • Barbara Simons on why our voting system isn't safe
    Barbara Simons is a computer scientist—and she doesn't trust our voting computers. States without paper ballots could be hacked without us ever knowing. And we do know that Russia probed our defenses in 2016.

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    15 min

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