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Chris Krebs expects to be fired soon, @Bing_Chris reports. Krebs has been one of the top and most visible election security officials and has aggressively debunked misinformation in the aftermath. Widely respected for his work this year. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-krebs/senior-u-s-cybersecurity-official-tells-associates-he-expects-to-be-fired-sources-idUSKBN27S2WB?il=0
More than just this year, to be clear, he led election security efforts in 2018 as well. But this year, Krebs’s election security work has needed to involve repeatedly directly contradicting pro-Trump conspiracy theories as baseless disinformation about the election spreads.
Rumor Control is the agency’s new and widely praised effort to combat election disinformation in real time. It contradicts Trump and his allies from top to bottom, though it never names the president directly: https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol
Yep: "He drew the ire of the Trump White House over a website run by CISA dubbed 'Rumor Control' which debunks misinformation about the election." Krebs has said he wanted to Rumor Control-style pages to go bigger to combat misinfo. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27S2YI
Anyway twitter is weird, it’s very strange to have a tweet go bonkers for tweeting someone else’s scoop. Follow @Bing_Chris for the goods.
