Cybersecurity

Microsoft Executive Warns of Election Meddling in Final 48 Hours

  • Tech executives testify to Senate on foreign interference risk
  • Meta, Google, Microsoft said foreign actors are using AI

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corp., before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Sept. 18.

Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg

Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith warned the danger of foreign interference in the US election will surge in the final two days of the presidential campaign.

“The most perilous moment will come, I think, 48 hours before the election,” Smith told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.