On Wednesday, about 130 Twitter accounts of prominent people , including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, were hacked. The incident revealed that, four years after Americans learned how easily an election can be manipulated via social media, the country is still not close to safeguarding the 2020 election. For example, just last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was breached, and two Twitter staffers were accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on critics. The people who followed the instructions on the fake tweets and initiated 518 Bitcoin transactions likely didn't realize the tweets were a hoax, either. That's a major problem because another hack like this on or around Election Day could actually throw the election for a particular candidate.

Source: CNN July 19, 2020 14:26 UTC