The election interference tactics originally deployed by Russia against the US and Europe are now global. Hackers across the democratic world have exploited weaknesses in campaign email servers; probed electronic voting machines for vulnerabilities; set up troll farms to spread highly-partisan narratives; and employed armies of bots to distort the truth online.
Tech experts in countries such as Iran and Venezuela have borrowed these tactics and joined efforts toward the same goals: To erode confidence in electoral processes and in democratic governance itself.