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Ottawa taps team to warn of foreign digital interference in elections

Broadcast | 01/30/2019 3:49 pm EST
Ottawa taps team to warn of foreign digital interference in elections
Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale speak to media on Jan. 30, 2019./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

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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