The head of Ireland's electoral commission has warned that disinformation around elections is at an 'enormous' scale.
THE HEAD OF Ireland’s electoral commission has warned that disinformation around elections is at an “enormous” scale.
“The scale of the problem is enormous but as time goes on we are becoming more solutions focused – I have sat in rooms like this for the last two years and listening to people articulating the problem absolutely perfectly,” he said. He referenced the example of Australia where the electoral regulator has created a campaign to promote trusted sources of information and also created a misinformation and disinformation register.
He said in his regular meetings with the National Cyber Security Centre that he asks if there is any evidence of “outside States trying to influence the Irish political democratic system”. He spoke about the level of ambition that was set in the Commission on the Defence Forces – a document which looked at failings in the capabilities of the Irish military.
“What we have had in the past were gaps in what was set out in the white paper and the actual funding. The Commission on the Defence Forces called that out,” he said. Finally he said that they were also working on expanding the cyber security and defence capabilities.
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