and the challenge for those elements of the united states government that were created years ago to prevent election interference and to combat disinformation is that those mechanisms were designed to thwart disinformation from foreign governments. so during the post-election period when the president himself was the one actively fanning the flames of the big lie, all of those mechanisms that the national security community had put in place largely fell flat because they weren t disciped to counter false information from the president of the united states himself. and this is a big problem we face. so, look, if the u.s. government apparatus designed to protect us from disinformation operations can t do so, then it s incumbent upon our national leaders to do the same. and what we saw with many of them mostly in the republican party they did the opposite and they continue to do the opposite, and that s where i think the bulk of the responsibility lies here. it s on the feet of republican
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huge industrial spying effort going on in addition to national security spying. yeah, there s quite a few countries that have disinformation operations happening within their borders. people mention as you said china, iran, israel, saudi arabia, united arab emirates. quite a few. and the concerning thing, of course, is that they re all active and, you know, they all have different agendas. we could have a much more complex kind of social media disinformation issue in 2020 than we had in 2016. and they re not all aligning themselves with the same political party. i mean, iran has a different agenda than russia in this regard. yeah, that s one of the things i found fascinating about the story, is that the iranians aren t fans of donald trump the way the russians are fans of donald trump. so when they play, they re pushing their own line. the iranians probably would rather not see donald trump reelected. they d rather see the republicans win back the house and the senate. you end up