A Facebook logo is seen on a computer screen in this photo illustration on October 31, 2017. Material posted on Facebook and other social media directly and indirectly reached over 126 million Americans between 2015 and 2017 according to company testimony before the US Senate. Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Facebook issued a warning Thursday of potential "hack-and-leak operations" by the Russian government ahead of the 2020 US election. "Hack-and-leak — where a bad actor steals sensitive information, sometimes manipulates it, and then strategically releases it to influence public debate — is one of the threats we're particularly focused on and concerned about ahead of the November elections in the US," Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy at Facebook, said in a blog post. In the last presidential election, Russian government operatives working to elect Donald Trump created fake news outlets to disseminate emails stolen from the Hillary Clinton campaign. "Our team at FB saw such activity in 2016 and reported it to the FBI," Alex Stamos, the company's former chief security officer, wrote on Twitter.

 

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