US President Donald Trump has fired Chris Krebs, the head of the Cybersecurity and the Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the agency tasked with securing elections. Krebs and CISA had been commended for fending off threats by foreign and other actors during the 2020 cycle. But Krebs appears to have gotten on Trump’s bad side after aggressively refuting the President’s unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou reports.
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