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Welcome to a second abridged summer edition of the Political Law Playbook. Of particular note in this edition is recent activity in the US Senate regarding a proposed measure to reform...
Published May 26, 2021 Andrew Hutchinson Content and Social Media Manager As it continues to refine its approach to misinformation and disinformation actors, and detecting networks seeking to use its massive audience reach for their own political purposes, Facebook has today launched a new, 44-page report on the various coordinated networks that it's detected since 2017, in the wake of revelations around the Cambridge Analytica and Russian-backed interference efforts in the US. Facebook's full 'Threat Report on Influence Operations' outlines the scope of its efforts on this front, and the ...
Again, to subvert our democratic process. >> today at the intelligence committee in the house, we just spoke with the chairman of that committee. there were former fbi officials who testified at experts who talked about why foreign governments might want to offer a candidate in a u.s. election assistance with dirt on their opponent or something else that they could use to help them get elected, why that might be an influence operation. can you as somebody who has done counterintelligence work like this from the perspective of the justice department, can you tell us how this work from an intell...
Staff to pick up the phone and call the fbi and report what is an overture by a foreign government to engage in an influence operation in the united states, ostensibly, again, to subvert our democratic process. >> today at the intelligence committee in the house, we just spoke with the chairman of that committee. there were former fbi officials who testified as experts who talked about why foreign governments might want to offer a candidate in a u.s. election assistance with dirt on their opponent or something else that they could use to help them get elected, why that might be an influence op...
Documents on offer. >> are the russians involved in this scheme still active? >> it would appear so. let me read to you a key line that i found fascinating, is that the mueller team says that the sensitive discovery identifies uncharged individuals and entities the government believes are continuing to engage in operations that interfere with lawful u.s. government functions like those activities charged in the indictment. clearly, there are names there are still people that are associated with this company, with the russians that were indicted and charged, that are still under investigation a...