[Daily Caller] The head of the firm behind a report on ongoing Russian influence campaigns in the United States was part of a Democratic project to create fake Russian bots during the Alabama special election in October 2017.The chief executive of cybersecurity firm New Knowledge, Jonathan Morgan, was one of the operatives on a self-described "false flag" operation meant to link Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore to Russian bots in order to boost his Democratic opponent, now-Sen. Doug Jones. The project sought to spread misinformation about foreign interference in an American election.
Morgan’s firm also recently authored a report on that very topic for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The New Knowledge report ‐ which is posted in full at the bottom of this article ‐ stated that Americans’ hesitance to embrace censorship puts the U.S. at a "disadvantage" in dealing with Russian influence campaigns.
The report also called for "robust collaboration between government agencies, platforms, and private companies" in order to combat the threat of Russian influence campaigns.