Washington, Silicon Valley Struggle to Unify on Protecting Elections

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Tech executives and U.S. officials were at odds at a recent meeting over how much data to share, as they struggle to unify on protecting elections

U.S. national-security officials traveled to Silicon Valley last week to forge deeper ties with big tech companies in hopes of better protecting the 2020 election from foreign intervention. It didn’t go entirely as planned.

At the meeting organized by Facebook Inc. at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Shelby Pierson—named over the summer to lead the U.S. intelligence community’s new election-threats group—delivered a blunt message to the assembled executives: You need to share more data with us about your users.

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