Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that authoritarian governments were going to meddle in a flurry of elections and the US would keep pressing to disrupt misinformation efforts from China and Russia.
“Nearly half the people of the world are going to be going to the polls this year – this is an extraordinary election year in country after country,” Blinken told a session at the Summit for Democracy conference in Seoul on Monday. “But citizens and candidates will face a flood of falsehoods that suffocate serious civic debate.”