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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& #39; 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& #39;s Bret Schafer
"Both Chinese and Russian state media have also devoted significant airtime covering the killing and protests " per @SecureDemocracy& #39;s Bret Schafer
From Thursday-Friday, " #GeorgeFloyd has been the 2nd most used hashtag by official #Iran|ian accounts that we track" per @SecureDemocracy& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s Schafer
