Former Election Security Official Says It Will Take 'Years' To Undo Disinformation
One of the top federal officials responsible for securing the nation's elections is speaking out days after leaving his job with the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Matthew Masterson served as a senior cybersecurity advisor at CISA, primarily responsible for elections, and his departure comes amid persistent, but baseless, claims that the 2020 elections were riddled with fraud. Many of those claims have come from President Trump, who last month fired Masterson's former boss, Christopher Krebs, after Krebs joined others in calling the 2020 election the "most secure in American history." Trump's allegations have been widely disputed by election experts and numerous courts, where his campaign has tried unsuccessfully to overturn the election results.
In his first interview since leavingthat a large segment of the electorate, including a majority of Republicans, does not trust that this year's results were legitimate.
