FBI director says foreign disinformation campaigns 'never stopped' after 2016 elections
FBI director says foreign disinformation campaigns 'never stopped' after 2016 elections
BY MAGGIE MILLER at the Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/481727-fbi-director-says-foreign-disinformation-campaigns-never-stopped-after
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FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that foreign disinformation efforts against the U.S. “never stopped” after Russian actors used them on social media platforms during the 2016 elections.
The FBI chief also told lawmakers during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that malicious foreign influence campaigns are now targeting more than just elections.
“That is in some ways an even more challenging area, not the least because it never stopped. It happened in 2016 and it’s been continuing ever since then. It may have an uptick during an election cycle, but it’s a 24/7, 365-days-a-year threat,” Wray said of disinformation campaigns.
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“While I don’t think we’ve seen any ongoing efforts to target election infrastructure like we did in 2016, we certainly are seeing and have never stopped seeing, really, since 2016 efforts to engage in malign foreign influence by the Russians,” Wray said, pointing to evidence that Russians are using “false personas [and] fake media accounts” online.
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