What Is Facebook Doing to Protect Elections?

Nicholas Thompson, Jeh Johnson, Katie Harbath, and Douglas Lute discuss potential online threats to the 2020 US election.

With just five months until primary season ramps up in the United States, what’s being done to ensure bad actors don’t attack our elections? In 2016, Russia used cyberattacks and social media to sow division in the presidential race. What lessons were learned by companies like Facebook and entities like NATO and the Federal Government? Facebook’s head of election security, Katie Harbath, sits down with former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and Douglas Lute, a former US ambassador to NATO. Nicholas Thompson, editor in chief of WIRED, leads the conversation, which is featured in the Aspen Ideas to Go podcast.

How United Will a Post-Brexit United Kingdom Be?

Political turmoil in the UK crushed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s hopes for a do-or-die exit from the European Union. Still, Britain has a deadline to leave the EU on October 31. A sticking point is how to deal with the border between Northern Ireland (part of Britain) and the Republic of Ireland. Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor in chief of The Economist, and John Micklethwait, editor in chief of Bloomberg, discuss what a post-Brexit UK might look like.

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This week, September 8 - 14, marks National Suicide Prevention Week. Efforts this week are meant to spread awareness, among other goals. Learn more from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.