Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! Happy Flag Day! Here’s something to be proud of: The U.S. flag has more stars than any other nation's flag. Brazil's flag comes in second with 27 stars compared to our 50 stars and Uzbekistan has 12. Alas, Malaysia's flag beats ours when it comes to stripes. It has 14 of them compared with our 13.
Below: Over 100 election deniers have won GOP primaries so far, and several election deniers are on the Republican ballot for secretary of state in Nevada tonight.
The master narrative of yesterday’s Jan. 6 hearing was that former president Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies helped prod the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and are continuing to press politics in a dangerous direction.
Even some Trump campaign and administration officials didn’t buy his baseless attacks, which have riven the nation for nearly two years now. Those officials watched with alarm and dismay after the election as the president embraced easily disprovable conspiracy theories and ignored evidence, according to video testimony. Some of Trumps most unbelievable claims were around voting machines.
Barr called the Trump-embraced conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems machines had been manipulated to flip votes to Biden “idiotic” and “disturbing.” He said Trump allies promoted the allegations with “zero basis.”
Yet, despite their absurdity, the false claims caught fire among Trump supporters — surging distrust in election machines and election workers.
“[The claims] were...
Government agents were confronted by protesters outside the Philippine Senate when they tried to arrest former president Rodrigo Duterte's chief drug war enforcer, but visuals shared online do not ...
