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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI chief: Foreign influence campaigns continually targeting US
2019-03-06
[The Hill] FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Tuesday that foreign nations are still engaging in disinformation campaigns on social media to stir an already tense political pot in the U.S.
Smart dresser, but that may well be where smart ends.
Speaking at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco, Wray said that while no influence campaign had yet made a "material impact on election infrastructure," the efforts on social media have continued "virtually unabated," according to CNN.

Wray pointed to Russia, Iran, China and North Korea as waging broader cyber threats "unlike anything we have had in our lifetimes."

"The thing that most shocked me was the breath and the depth and the scale of the Chinese counterintelligence threat," he added, according to CNN.

Wray noted that the FBI has been aligning with social media companies to prevent influence campaigns from spreading online, saying the cooperation has been a "great example of how the government and private sector can work together in a common defense."

Malicious digital activity from foreign governments and entities was thrust into the spotlight in 2016 after it was revealed that Russians waged a sophisticated social media campaign to spread false information and stoke tensions online over hot-button issues.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Yes what Mi6 did was terrible...

When are the sanctions on foreign influencer Britain?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-03-06 18:35  

#7  wouldn't you be doing your level best to influence our policies in your favor?

At the overt level that’s called diplomacy. Covertly, it is spying, and those engaged in it can be shot on sight. And, as it was known before the 2016 campaign to be occurring — not to mention a few major Democratic party donors engaging in their own disinformation campaigns on the side in both 2016 and 2018 — it’s past time to look closely at the Obama administration people who should have stopped it but chose to say and do nothing about it.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-03-06 14:04  

#6  Well, duh.

If you were the head of state or the intelligence service of a foreign country, wouldn't you be doing your level best to influence our policies in your favor?
Posted by: Tom   2019-03-06 13:53  

#5  Yawn. This is nothing new. Lemme know when you do something about it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-03-06 11:23  

#4  If he actually said "breath" and not "breadth", he should be fired. Accordingly, it's just as likely that an illiterate POS CNN reporter and layers of Hill editors missed that
Posted by: Frank G   2019-03-06 07:11  

#3  I'm calling bullshit. Chrissy Wray is trying to misdirect from his blood brothers deep state treason.
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-03-06 05:23  

#2  Wray noted that the FBI has been aligning with social media companies to prevent influence campaigns from spreading online, saying the cooperation has been a "great example of how the government and private sector can work together in a common defense."

Given our current FBI, that's not exactly comforting either.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-03-06 05:15  

#1  "The thing that most shocked me was the breath and the depth and the scale of the Chinese counterintelligence threat," he added, according to CNN.

The fact that Wray found this "shocking" is of little comfort to me.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-03-06 04:17  

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