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"What we don't know yet is just how pervasive this sort of activity is," says Rice Faculty Scholar Dan Wallach of disinformation campaigns on Facebook and Twitter.

Dan Wallach, a Baker Institute Rice Faculty Scholar and computer science professor, is quoted in an article about federal grants intended to help prevent cyberattacks at the polls. McClatchy Washington Bureau: https://bit.ly/2tJPfXI

Baker Institute faculty scholar Dan Wallach warned that American election systems face “credible cyberthreats” during testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology in Washington, D.C. “It’s far too late to change the technologies upon which we will cast our votes,” Wallach said. “My best advice is that we need contingency planning.”