{"id":2668,"date":"2022-09-29T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2022-09-29T22:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:29:47","slug":"states-hiring-data-specialists-to-combat-election-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/states-hiring-data-specialists-to-combat-election-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"States Hiring: Data Specialists to Combat Election Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? Social media told a story of a van in Connecticut carrying ballots during the 2020 election as having crashed and the ballots lost. The story was untrue but went viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? Connecticut has hired a misinformation specialist and has a $2million project to ensure accurate election information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? \u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.state.co.us\/pubs\/newsRoom\/pressReleases\/2020\/PR20200720RapidResponseTeam.html\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Secretary of the State Jena Griswold created the Rapid Response Election Security Cyber Unit<\/a> &amp; \u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/election-cybersecurity\" target=\"_blank\">California has an office of election security<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/management\/2022\/09\/states-are-taking-new-steps-fight-election-related-mistruths-they-go-viral\/377774\/\">Route Fifty | States Take New Steps to Stop Election Mistruths From Going Viral<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? Social media told a story of a van in Connecticut carrying ballots during the 2020 election as having crashed and the ballots lost. The story was untrue but went viral. Why is this important? Connecticut has hired a misinformation specialist and has a $2million project to ensure accurate election information. How will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}