Her dad, John Ramsey, responded to the latest rumor.

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By cutting internet access during uprisings, the Iranian regime turns connectivity itself into a mechanism of control.

Weeks before the 2024 election, American military hackers carried out a secret operation to disrupt the work of Russian trolls spewing false information at US voters.