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NEW: US intelligence officials are on the lookout for foreign actors to use the growing #GeorgeFloyd protests to target the country
"We certainly anticipate that our adversaries may attempt to exploit this situation for their own ends” per an @ODNIgov official
"We certainly anticipate that our adversaries may attempt to exploit this situation for their own ends” per an @ODNIgov official
MORE: As of late Friday, intelligence officials did not have any specifics to share...but earlier #Minnesota @GovTimWalz sounded the alarm about international elements fanning tensions
"As you saw this expand across the United States & you start to see whether it be domestic terrorism, whether it be ideological extremist to fan the group or whether it be int' destabilization of of how our country works, those elements are present in all of this" per @GovTimWalz
US adversaries - notably #Russia #China #Iran - have been seizing upon the killing of #GeorgeFloyd & the ensuing protests
"Both Chinese and Russian state media have also devoted significant airtime covering the killing and protests " per @SecureDemocracy's Bret Schafer
"Both Chinese and Russian state media have also devoted significant airtime covering the killing and protests " per @SecureDemocracy's Bret Schafer
From Thursday-Friday, " #GeorgeFloyd has been the 2nd most used hashtag by official #Iran|ian accounts that we track" per @SecureDemocracy's Schafer " #GeorgeFloyd and #Minneapolis are among the top 10 most used hashtags by official #Russia|n accounts"
So far, though, "none of what we’re seeing is disinformation or misinformation" per @SecureDemocracy's Schafer "I’d view this through the lens of decades-long efforts by the #SovietUnion & to a lesser degree #Iran to highlight racism in America as a way to damage US credibility"
"In a situation like this, though, where there is so much national media attention on the case, my guess is that adversarial state-backed media coverage is probably having a pretty minimal impact on audiences in the US" per @SecureDemocracy's Schafer
