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==Election disinformation==
==Election disinformation==
==Executive Order 13848==
:{{See also|Sedition|Treason}}
On September 12, 2018, by President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 13848 entitled, “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.”<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/</ref>
In that executive order President Trump declared a national emergency and the 2020 presidential election was conducted under this state of emergency. The order states that people and organizations located, in part, outside the [[United States]] are known to be able to, {{quotebox|“interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of [[election]] and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of [[propaganda]] and [[disinformation]].” The EO further states that this foreign interference in U.S. elections, “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the [[national security]] and [[foreign policy]] of the United States.”}}
Between May 1, 2020 and October 31, 2020 the Chinese Communist Party paid $1,027,254.12 to the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Bay Area Production Services, LLC (San Francisco), ''The Seattle Times'', ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', Walton Press, Inc. (Atlanta), FNP Printing & Publishing (Washington D.C.), Stellar Printing, Inc. (New York City), ''The Houston Chronicle'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', Hawaii Hochi Ltd. and Sun Sentinel Company (Miami) to print the ''China Daily'' newspaper in the United States.<ref>https://erbn.online/1009</ref>
The Chinese communist party also paid $749,006.69 to ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Foreign Policy'' and the ''[[Financial Times]]'' for advertisement slots in their publications, including full articles written by ''China Daily''/the Chinese Communist Party.
In total, the Chinese communist party spent nearly $4.5 million on its propaganda in the US through the China Daily newspaper alone. The data was published on the [[US Department of Justice]] its FARA ([[Foreign Agents Registration Act]]) website.<ref>https://efile.fara.gov/docs/3457-Supplemental-Statement-20201118-33.pdf</ref>
Additionally, both [[Dominion Voting Systems]] and [[Scytl]] are foreign corporations.
===Hawkfish===
Isaac Stanley-Becker of ''[[Washington Post]]'' wrote in May 2020,<ref>https://www.stripes.com/news/us/initiative-seeks-to-challenge-trump-s-online-megaphone-1.628186</ref>
Isaac Stanley-Becker of ''[[Washington Post]]'' wrote in May 2020,<ref>https://www.stripes.com/news/us/initiative-seeks-to-challenge-trump-s-online-megaphone-1.628186</ref>
{{quotebox|A new Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. [[Stanley McChrystal]], the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is planning to deploy technology originally developed to counter Islamic State propaganda in service of a domestic political goal – to combat online efforts to promote President Donald Trump's handling of the [[coronavirus]] pandemic.
{{quotebox|A new Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. [[Stanley McChrystal]], the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is planning to deploy technology originally developed to counter Islamic State propaganda in service of a domestic political goal – to combat online efforts to promote President Donald Trump's handling of the [[coronavirus]] pandemic.