The United States has participated in hundreds of foreign "interventions" throughout its history, with researchers estimating at least 80 covert and overt "interventions" in foreign elections between 1946 and 2000 alone.
The US' Alberta play is serious.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Carnegie Mellon University researcher Dov Levin about his historical database that tracks U.S. involvement in meddling with foreign elections over the years.