The effort includes artificial intelligence, fake social media accounts and a spike in state-sponsored Russian propaganda.
By Dan De Luce
Russia is seeking to exploitĀ Americaās divisive debate over Israelās offensive inĀ Gaza through overt and covert propaganda, with the aim of aggravating political tensions in the U.S. and tarnishing Washingtonās global image, according to two sources familiar withĀ U.S. intelligence on the matter.
In its ongoing information war against the United States, Russia has shifted its focus in recent months to theĀ Israel-Hamas conflict, seeking to inflame existing divisions in the West and to portray Washington as fueling the violence, the sources said.
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A favorite theme of Russian information operations is to paint America as a failing democratic state, according to U.S. officials and researchers.
At an event last week in Washington,Ā Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines saidĀ Russia works to denigrate Americaās standing in the world, to undermine democratic institutions and processes and to exploit social, political and economic divisions āin our culture and in our society.ā
Iām increasing suspicious is that the reason marijuana is being rescheduled is that someone finally convinced the brass that they are talent limited in the IT world because of the large percentage of IT pros that smoke
Not to increase your suspicion but over a decade ago James Comey joked about that and then Jeff Sessions grilled him in front of Congress:
As someone who has infosec skills that could be useful, the weed prohibition isnāt the main reason I donāt work for the government. Itās that theyād make me come into an office.
I agree itās probably not the number one reason someone would turn down one of those jobs. But anyone thatās on the fence might be swayed