One element of Moscow's efforts focused on sowing discord through a coordinated disinformation campaign, according to special counsel Robert Mueller's report . The US intelligence community anticipates foreign actors will try to use the same tactics again in 2020, and there are already signs of interference from Russia (Moscow denies all claims of meddling). Late last year, Congress approved $425 million in election security funding, as part of an effort to safeguard against interference. "Anybody who is propping up conspiracy theories -- promoting mistruths or distruths -- is doing a disservice to the democratic system writ large," Jankowicz added. Graham Brookie, director of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFR), who was monitoring Iowa for foreign influence, argues that the media also has a big role to play.

Source: CNN February 09, 2020 08:15 UTC