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The US Department of Homeland Security issued a warning on Tuesday that Russia may try to "sow discord, distract, shape public sentiment, and undermine trust in Western democratic institutions" in the run-up to the presidential elections which are now four weeks away.

Despite all the talk about using artificial intelligence and machine learning in future, social media giant Facebook says it will take recourse to snail mail in order to verify that its next lot of election advertisements actually originate in the US.

The FBI has interviewed a number of employees of security firm Kaspersky Lab, in a bid to find out more about the company's operations as part of a counter-intelligence probe.