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Lawfare Archive: Nate Persily Asks Whether Democracy Can Survive the Internet

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What Are the Right Standards for Foreign Entities in Elections?

I think we particularly in the United States have a knee-jerk reaction to this which is like hell, nobody outside the country should be able to mess with our elections. If you start thinking about that in an international sense, it becomes a very difficult idea to sort of wrap your head around. We may have a problem with Russian intelligence agencies coming in and messing with the US election or the information ecosystem but what about RT? What about Chinese TV? What about the Canadian broadcasting system? Are we going to say that these many way government funded entities are not going to be able to report on what's happening in the US and be available to US viewers? Similarly, the voice of America being

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