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FBI and CISA Issue Public Service Announcement Warning of Tactics Foreign Threat Actors are Using to Spread Disinformation in the 2024 U.S. General Election
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Posted on 10/20/2024 6:40:01 PM PDT by TigerClaws

WASHINGTON – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued their final four-part joint public service announcement (PSA) today titled "Just So You Know: Foreign Threat Actors Likely to Use a Variety of Tactics to Develop and Spread Disinformation During the 2024 U.S. General Election Cycle." This PSA highlights efforts by foreign actors to spread disinformation in the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. general election with the goal of casting doubt on the integrity of the democratic process and sowing partisan discord. Foreign adversaries are using a variety of sophisticated disinformation campaigns, often leveraging new tools, such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), to craft and spread misleading content.

“As we approach Election Day, it is important to remember that while elections are political, election security is not. Election security is national security. Our foreign adversaries are looking to attack our democratic process to further their own objectives, and we need the help of all Americans in ensuring they are not successful,” said CISA Senior Advisor Cait Conley. “There has been incredible effort across local, state and federal governments to ensure the security and integrity of our nation’s election infrastructure. Americans should be confident that their votes will be counted as cast. They should also know that our foreign adversaries will try to make them believe otherwise. We encourage everyone to remain vigilant, verify the information they consume, and rely on trusted sources like their state and local election officials.”

The PSA highlights specific examples of tactics we have seen used by Russia and Iran during the 2024 election cycle to target all Americans. These include things from mimicking national level media outlets like the Washington Post and Fox News and creating inauthentic news sites posing as legitimate media organizations to using paid influencers to hide their hand. It is important for voters to critically evaluate information sources, particularly as disinformation campaigns evolve to use AI-generated content. Both agencies urge the American public to rely on trusted information from state and local election officials and to verify claims through multiple reliable sources before sharing them on social media or other platforms.

For more information on how to protect yourself from disinformation, visit the official websites of the FBI and CISA’s dedicated election security webpage, cisa.gov/Protect2024.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cisa; fbi
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1 posted on 10/20/2024 6:40:01 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

I despise these people.


2 posted on 10/20/2024 6:41:14 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: TigerClaws

let me guess... they’ve dispatched ‘candidate look-a-likes’ that may appear at local food establishments...


3 posted on 10/20/2024 6:42:56 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: TigerClaws

So, CISA is also enemy and has to be disbanded.


4 posted on 10/20/2024 6:44:34 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: sten

Nope....he dispatched campaign look alikes that bomb fox news interviews with Bret Baier


5 posted on 10/20/2024 6:45:37 PM PDT by suasponte137
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To: TigerClaws
The cackling is just clever Russian AI Disinfo to make her cuddly, human, and lovable...


6 posted on 10/20/2024 6:48:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (It should be illegal to be here illegally. It should be a crime to be committing crimes in the USA.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Any fake pipe bombs involved ?


7 posted on 10/20/2024 6:48:26 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: TigerClaws

But no mention that Iran is actuallly trying to KILL Trump.


8 posted on 10/20/2024 6:49:09 PM PDT by Williams (Let's Focus On Electing President Trump)
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To: TigerClaws

CIA and FBI are spreading disinformation. Our government and media are so evil. They lie and lie and lie. No reason to argue about something that is likely just propaganda.


9 posted on 10/20/2024 6:49:31 PM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: TigerClaws

The fbi and the cisa lie constantly. They are integrity-free sociopaths. They must be held accountable for their many crimes.


10 posted on 10/20/2024 6:49:31 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: TigerClaws

They are the purveyors of government lies. The very idea of a government “truth” office.


11 posted on 10/20/2024 6:51:22 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: TigerClaws

Oh boy! Here we go again!!

Was it “51 intelligence officers”?


12 posted on 10/20/2024 6:51:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Meanwhile, this is okay...

British Labour ‘Activists’ Coming to America To Campaign for Kamala Harris. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? And all the while our pols are taking thousands of dollars in free tickets to Taylor Swift.

13 posted on 10/20/2024 6:52:07 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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And the Germans are peddling this...

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/elon-musk-staatsfeind-nummer-zwei-a-19071f99-5099-4e2a-aa87-c7a17ab9c046


14 posted on 10/20/2024 6:52:49 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: TigerClaws

Imagine sowing partisan discord!
Oh, the humanity.

Surely no one wants foreign powers to goad democrats into thinking that Trump is a nazi fascist KKK threat to democracy who will use the military to lock up gays, blacks, latinos and social media critics and destroy democracy!

Oh wait…that is kamala’s rote campaign speech


15 posted on 10/20/2024 6:52:52 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: sten

So I was coming off a 3 day drunk and drove through a McDonald’s to scarf some food and a couple of large cokes and you wouldn’t believe who the guy who handed me the food looked like, I guess I was still drunker than I thought.


16 posted on 10/20/2024 6:53:42 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: TigerClaws
The FIB is now classifying the msm Foreign Threat Actors?
17 posted on 10/20/2024 6:53:52 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: mewzilla

And from France a month ago...

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-51/20240920-online-misogyny-and-the-us-election-how-to-counter-the-war-of-disinformation


18 posted on 10/20/2024 6:54:19 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: TigerClaws

Here’s a flash for the idiots at the Washington Post and New York Times:

Democrats are importing foreign illegals, giving them driver’s licensees and in that process signing ILLEGALS up to vote. To VOTE ILLEGALLY.

MANY ARE CHINESE OF MILITARY AGE.

And to add insult to injury idiots (useful or not) at the DOJ are stopping elected officials from STOPPING THESE illegals from voting. See: Virginia Governor...

THAT’S HOW THE VOTE IS BEING COMPROMISED.

The people of the FBI need to protect the vote for citizens of OUR country and stop worrying about silly propaganda - which has been happening since the founding of the country.

Americans aren’t stupid. We can see propaganda and STOP calling it ‘disinformation’. That’s the term domestic commies use... the correct term is ‘propaganda’.


19 posted on 10/20/2024 6:54:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (If the government won't protect the vote, border or citizens, why have that government?-nullandvoid)
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Foreign Threat Actors

AKA the Democrat Party.

20 posted on 10/20/2024 6:54:29 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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