Ottawa taps team to warn of foreign digital interference in elections
Broadcast | 01/30/2019 3:49 pm EST
OTTAWA — The Liberal government has set up a new alert protocol and created a crack-team of top bureaucrats that can warn political parties and the public during an election period about major attempts by foreign parties to interfere or spread disinformation online that could manipulate the election.
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