{"id":31362,"date":"2021-02-03T22:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31362"},"modified":"2021-02-03T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:00:44","slug":"federal-cyber-agency-reevaluating-role-in-countering-election-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31362","title":{"rendered":"Federal cyber agency reevaluating role in countering election disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Wales, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said Wednesday that the agency\u2019s involvement in countering election disinformation and misinformation was under review.<\/p>\n<p>Wales described the decision made by the agency to stand up a \u201crumor control\u201d page ahead of the 2020 election as \u201ccontroversial,\u201d and vowed to get \u201cback to basics\u201d and concentrate on cyber and physical security aspects of elections.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came after former CISA Director Christopher Krebs was fired by former President Trump for both standing up the rumor control webpage and for CISA putting out a statement with other election officials describing the 2020 election as the \u201cmost secure in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Wales, the acting director of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31363,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31362\/revisions\/31363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}