Dem lawmaker pushes web domain companies to address Russian influence operations

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Sen. Mark Warner, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, is pushing web domain companies to address Russian influence operations during the 2024 election cycle.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is pushing web domain companies to address Russian influence operations during the 2024 election cycle. The Democratic lawmaker sent letters to NameCheap, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, NewFold Digital, NameSilo and Verisign Thursday after the online companies were listed in an affidavit from the Department of Justice last month.

"In the interim, your company must take immediate steps to address the continued abuse of your services for foreign covert influence — particularly in the days preceding, and weeks immediately following, Election Day." FOX Business reached out to each of the web domain companies mentioned by Warner. GoDaddy told FOX Business it regards election interference as a "threat to democracy" and "takes the abuse of online platforms seriously.

 

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