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Last week the office of the Director of National Intelligence

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release the report that talked about the infant operations

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that Moscow mounted against the United States during the 2020 election.

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White House and a part of that talked about the use of troll

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farms in Ghana Nigeria and Mexico that was run by a entity

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in St. Petersburg building.

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That's a lotta research agency.

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And this is an agency that is infinitely was involved in the

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2016 election campaign.

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I'm back that a troll Farm was based out of St.

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Petersburg and we're targeting Americans with the disinformation

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and in 2020 in the intervening time.

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United States have woken up to this idea.

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Social media companies have been looking for looks like this

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by that the agency in St.

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Petersburg knowing that to avoid detection the Russian stance.

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I found out some of their dirty work to commercial entities

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in Ghana Nigeria Mexico, but Water Report basically does is it's

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for the first time the United States government is confirming

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what Facebook social media Twitter and other security researchers

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this information researchers had known

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Quite a while.

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And this is also the first time that the United States government

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is basically providing itching from a tour on that kind of find

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a growing Trend.

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I'm not just a country's Amy aning there a disinformation

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campaigns of the United States but also countries that are using

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this as a tactic to go after that Regional rival.

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For example, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have

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used social media marketing companies that do reputation

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management the government can then say well,

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you know, we were not involved in all this points to is the growing

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role off these marketing companies that are being now contacted

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by the government's and intelligence agencies in different

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countries to run propaganda campaigns against that at bursaries

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and this makes it a lot more difficult for social media companies

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to take them down and shut them down forever because a company

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that is called XYZ one day can be taken down.

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And they can morph into a different company in about a week.

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We will not tolerate or on influence activities that in fact

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one of the things that researchers and exports that I spoke

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with Dad that the United States needs to look at a model that

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Australia has adopted last three or four examples that they

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have Define what constitutes a foreign interference

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operation and they have been posted season 13 criminal penalties

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for as long as 20 years in prison and exports saying that the

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United States and Congress needs to move in that direction.