Justice Department plans to alert public to foreign operations targeting U.S. democracy – Washington Post, 19 July 2018, Ellen Nakashima
The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima wrote a nice piece on USG efforts as presented at the recent Aspen Security Forum. Her article is here and also PDF’ed on the IPA website. Some highlights:
- FBI – …exposing schemes to the public is an important way to neutralize them
- FBI – The American people have a right to know if foreign governments are targeting them with propaganda
- FBI – Public attribution of foreign influence operations can help to counter and mitigate the harm caused by foreign-government-sponsored disinformation
- AG Sessions established the new Cyber Digital Task Force
- FBI established a Foreign Influence Task Force