When taken to task for spreading hateful, distorted, and false information, Mark Zuckerberg claims that the social network is a neutral platform, unmoored from the content it carries.
As campaigns become increasingly digital, the tools they use to harvest and disseminate data face threats from hackers whose goals can range from benign mischief to the undermining of democracy itself.
Tech giants, many of which have benefitted from intellectual-property thefts but now worry that they’ll be on the wrong side of the purloiner dynamic going forward, may have found a willing enforcer in the federal government.
The National Security Agency hopes that its GenCyber camps inspire young people to pursue work in cybersecurity, a field in which three hundred thousand jobs remain unfilled in the U.S. alone.