Russian groups and other foreign adversaries have unleashed an extensive disinformation campaign to undermine confidence in the U.S. election, but there is no evidence that their efforts will affect the outcome, federal officials said on Monday.
The officials remain concerned, however, that foreign adversaries will see the weeks after the election until it is certified by Congress on Jan. 6 as an opportunity to stoke political discord in the United States.
Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said her organization would hold regular updates throughout Tuesday to inform the public of threats to the election.
“We are in an election cycle with an unprecedented amount of disinformation, including disinformation being aggressively peddled and amplified by our foreign adversaries at a greater scale than ever before,” she said.
The agency has activated its election operations center to monitor potential threats to the voting infrastructure, Ms. Easterly said.
In recent weeks, officials from the agency have monitored attacks on ballot boxes and election-related websites as well as disinformation campaigns by Russia.
But so far, Ms. Easterly said, “we see no evidence of activity that has the potential to materially impact the outcome of the presidential election.”