[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-blackcore-linked-to-vote-interference-in-new-york-and-scotland":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":30,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":31,"tags":32,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},872,"blackcore-linked-to-vote-interference-in-new-york-and-scotland","Israeli Firm BlackCore Suspected of Interfering in Three Elections","BlackCore is now linked to alleged influence operations in New York City, Scotland, and France, expanding the mapped geography of for-hire election meddling.","An Israeli company called BlackCore is suspected of running influence operations tied to elections in New York City, Scotland, and France.\n\nReuters reported that BlackCore has come under suspicion in connection with votes across three distinct democratic contests. The firm's alleged involvement spans a US municipal race, a Scottish electoral process, and French elections - a breadth that, if confirmed, would make this one of the more geographically ambitious commercial influence cases on record. Specific methods, clients, and the scope of any impact have not been publicly confirmed, and \"suspected\" is doing real work in that sentence.\n\nWhat makes this significant is less the firm and more the pattern. Commercial operators selling election interference as a contracted service have become a documented feature of the influence landscape, not an anomaly. When the client list apparently crosses three countries and two continents, it signals that the market for this kind of work is liquid enough to attract repeat business - and that the same infrastructure built to manipulate one electorate can be redeployed quickly elsewhere.\n\nIsrael has become the center of gravity for the private influence and surveillance industry, largely because its intelligence services have spent decades producing technical talent that exits into the private sector. NSO Group is the most famous export; BlackCore, if the suspicions hold, is the latest. The industry keeps producing new names faster than regulators can name them.","[\"election-interference\",\"influence-operations\",\"disinformation\",\"policy\"]","2026-06-13T07:45:39.000Z","2026-06-13T08:46:38.159Z","2026-06-18T12:39:59.639Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Add concrete details (dates, agencies, numbers of accounts, specific findings) and ensure the lead clearly states the new development and its significance.","resolved","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.xyz.onl\u002Farticle-images\u002Fblackcore-linked-to-vote-interference-in-new-york-and-scotland.webp","policy",[33,34,35,31],"election-interference","influence-operations","disinformation",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"Hacker News","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reuters.com\u002Fworld\u002Fisraeli-firm-blackcore-also-suspected-meddling-nyc-scotland-votes-french-2026-06-11\u002F",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,58,62,67,72,77,82,87,92,97,102,107],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",2602,"2026-07-18T18:30:00.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",315,"2026-07-17T19:30:00.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":31,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Policy",169,"2026-07-17T19:49:53.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Hardware","hardware",126,"2026-07-16T20:09:48.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",94,"2026-07-16T16:29:46.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Software","software",72,"2026-07-17T09:42:05.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",60,"2026-07-16T16:59:13.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Startups","startups",42,"2026-07-16T16:30:35.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]