NEW: No sign foreign actors exploiting US racial divides or #COVOD19 on @Twitter
"We haven't found evidence of concerted platform manipulation by foreign actors in either of those areas" @Policy Dir @nickpickles tells House Intelligence Committee
"We have seen a change in tactics" per @Twitter's @nickpickles "Activity particularly around #COVID, geopolitics but also the issues in the #UnitedStates around particularly policing have transferred into state-controlled media"
"Those media entities and those government accounts are engaging" per @nickpickles "That shift from platform manipulation to overt state assets is something we've observed... This remains an evolving security challenge"
"We haven't seen coordinated inauthentic behavior on the part of foreign governments, particularly targeting voting systems or how to vote in the #UnitedStates" per @Facebook's @ngleicher
"We have not seen foreign actors engage in coordinated inauthentic behavior around the [#GeorgeFloyd] protests yet" per @ngleicher "We have teams that are proactively hunting for that"
"People who are on our platforms, users, they don't want to see clickbait. They don't want to see the type of divisive content that you're describing" @Facebook's @ngleicher tells @RepJimHimes "If we were to show only that, users wouldn't want to engage..."
"...that's why we take steps for example not to recommend groups that are repeatedly sharing information that crosses certain lines" adds @ngleicher
#Russia-linked actors "returning to techniques from the 60s, 70s or 80s in attempts to evade or get around the protections we put in place" per @Facebook's @ngleicher
"We did a takedown of a network linked to Sputnik news, a state media organization out of Russia,that ran seemingly independent news organizations across #Europe, representing themselves as independent..in fact they were all centrally controlled"
"That's the type of behavior that we enforce against" per @Facebook's @ngleicher
FB's @ngleicher adds information about foreign interference also shared w/law enforcement before public disclosure
"Just yesterday we began blocking ads from state media, including from #Russia, coming into the #UnitedStates ahead of the election" per @Facebook's @ngleicher
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash & Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi were charged in June 2008 & then again in May 2012 for their alleged roles in planning the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on #NewYork's World Trade Center & the Pentagon
JUST IN: US issues new National Counterintelligence Strategy
Updated strategy, signed by @POTUS Thursday, based on 3 pillars, per @NCSCgov:
-outmaneuver/constrain foreign intelligence entities
-protect US strategic advantages
-invest in the future
"Foreign intelligence and security services & their proxies persist in seeking to acquire our most
sensitive information, technology, and intellectual property" per @POTUS in the just-released strategy
"Non-state actors are following suit"
Foreign intelligence entities "also seeking to take advantage of the proliferation of commercially available tools to conduct surveillance; collect vast amounts of previously unavailable personal data;
& position themselves to disrupt our infrastructure..." per @POTUS
Some nuggets from @FBI Dir. Christopher Wray's appearance Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies...
#ArtificialIntelligence & #Election2024-"We are, of course, seeing & I've been warning about this for some time, the role of AI to enhance efforts that our foreign adversaries have already been engaged in" per @FBI's Wray
"It's not that it [#ArtificialIntelligence] changes fundamentally what it is our adversaries want to do...it allows them to amplify to do it, to make it more sophisticated, more deceptive, cheaper, faster" per @FBI's Wray
HAPPENING NOW - US intelligence chiefs testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee:
@ODNIgov Dir Avril Haines
@CIA Dir William Burns
@FBI Dir Christoper Wray
@NSAGov Dir Gen Timothy Haugh
@DefenseIntel Dir LtGen Jeffrey Krause
@StateDept Asst Sec for Intel Brett Holmgren
Noting that the current era is as challenging as ever, with a wide variety of threats, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair @MarkWarner calls for "redefining what we think of" when it comes to national security
@MarkWarner "We are no even seeing the possibility of foreign adversaries weaponizing space" in ways that could be detrimental to US way of life, per @MarkWarner
NEW: @FBI joins White House, Senate intelligence committee chair in sounding alarm about foreign interference in #Election2024
"This election cycle, the US will face more adversaries, moving at a faster pace & enabled by new technology
per Dir Christopher Wray at @INSAlliance
#ArtificialIntelligence advances "lowering the barrier to entry-making it easier for both more & less-sophisticated foreign adversaries to engage in malign influence" per @FBI's Wray
"Making foreign influence efforts by players old and&new more realistic & difficult to detect"
@FBI Where are US adversaries focused?
“The attack surface for the bad guys is the private sector” per @FBI's Wray "The intelligence that we need is in the hands of the private sector, often”