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Derek B. Johnson

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Derek B. Johnson is a reporter at CyberScoop, where his beat includes cybersecurity, elections and the federal government. Prior to that, he has provided award-winning coverage of cybersecurity news across the public and private sectors for various publications since 2017. Derek has a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from Hofstra University in New York and a master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University in Virginia.

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Conservative demonstrators who allege that the government pressured or colluded with social media platforms to censor right-leaning content protest outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, March 18, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Defining coercion at heart of Supreme Court case on government jawboning platforms

Technology

Supporters of President Joe Biden greet voters on January 23, 2024 in Loudon, New Hampshire. Three New Hampshire voters sued a Democratic operative who admitted to creating an fake AI-generated robocall of President Joe Biden, as well as two companies that allegedly helped. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

New Hampshire voters sue operative, companies behind Biden AI robocall

AI

Supporters of President Donald Trump demonstrate at a ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in front of the Maricopa County Elections Department office on November 7, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Training days: How officials are using AI to prepare election workers for voting chaos

AI

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White House advisory group says market forces ‘insufficient’ to drive cybersecurity in critical infrastructure

Cybersecurity

A voter casts their ballot at the Allen Temple Baptist Church on March 5, 2024 in Oakland, Calif. (Photo by Philip Pacheco/Getty Images)

CISA: No credible election threats, and no contact with social media companies

Cybersecurity

Cynthia Kaiser, the deputy assistant director for the FBI’s cyber division, speaks at the Trellix Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 27, 2024. (Scoop News Group)

Feds say AI favors defenders over attackers in cyberspace — so far

AI

Local resident Cierra Johnson (L) and her daughter Reniya Weekes (2nd L) hold signs to encourage people to vote early outside a polling station on November 29, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. A nonprofit suing the Coffee County Board of Elections claim the board withheld emails and security camera footage relevant to a 2021 breach of voting machine software and other election systems. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Georgia election officials withheld evidence in voting machine breach, group alleges

Government

In this photo illustration, Open AI’s newly released text-to-video “Sora” tool is advertised on their website on a monitor in Washington, DC, on February 16, 2024. (Photo by Drew Angerer / AFP)

Tech companies pledge to protect 2024 elections from AI-generated media

AI

Supporters demonstrate at a Joe Biden Write-In Rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on January 20, 2024. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

The tangled web of corporations behind the New Hampshire AI robocall

Threats