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Social media platforms to sew confusion and chaos. a parallel concern is an 11th hour release of fake documents implicating one of the candidates in an explosive way without time for it to be fact checked. and it isn't just the russians. multiple intelligence and law enforcement officials tell nbc news that concern is just as much about nonstate actors, hackers, political activists, and criminal mischief makers. while multiple intelligence officials tell nbc they have no specific warning about an election day attack, they also say they consider the massive and sophisticated internet disruption...

Issues floating around out there. now this. today, you may have noticed this if you tried to log on to any of these sites and some other major international sites this morning. netflix, reddit, twitter, paypal. they were essentially shut down this morning in large parts of the country. we can show you on this map. look at the red areas here. this morning if you were trying to get on to some of the biggest sites on the internet, you couldn't. this is a major potential cyber attack playing out. a lot of details still unknown about this. people -- authorities starting to put it together. for more...

Internet disruption that north korea saw. which begs the question did they do it themselves or did someone else do it? >> it will be interesting to see what language comes out of north korea. will ripley for us this beijing. thank you, will. well adrift at sea for days. a ship carrying hundreds of migrants has no crew and it's towed into port. now there's new concerns about abandoned ships being used in human trafficking. we'll have that story in a moment.

We'll keep checking this for you. but this is the second blackout that we can report. the entire nation lost service for about nine hours and 31 minutes overnight and yesterday. which led bill maher to tweet out, quote, we knocked out north korean internet, what a blow to the three people there who have it. next up, north korean state tv, a.k.a., the no food network. yes, it is an exaggeration. and it's not that far off. our will ripley checked in it. he gives us the reality check from china. >> reporter: when it comes to the internet, north korea is one of the least connected places on the pl...

Of the gop as it is today. >> sameless pug -- >> we have an article on the politics of the internet and why republicans need to get on the right side of internet disruption. >> favorite guy to follow on twitter, he always find the technological noug gets. >> we are profiling how one family is taking it personal. >> and we have a story on how incredibly nasty the race is and is it nastier than obama/hillary in 2008. >> i would say, yes, it is. that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown." results of the michigan primary begin tonight at 8:00 p.m. on msnbc. we'll be covering this all day. a...