right. we haven t seen this from china targeting the u.s. you know, you talk to some of these social networking companies and they have not pointed to china as an example of that. but they have pointed to other instances whether it s saudi arabia or it s individual countries in latin america where we re seeing disinformation operations. and in many cases they aren t targeting the u.s. they re targeting other countries where they have geopolitical influence. so in the u.s. we still have to deal with ivan and there is russia. russian agents have not stopped trying to influence the u.s. political conversation. and the threats still persist entering 2020. so here s what twitter is saying. as part of our public archive information operations, we have disclosed thousands of accounts and millions of twaets originating in iran. every year is an election year on twitter and we will be applying all of our global learnings to protect and enhance conversations around the 2020 election. do you
appreciate it. thank you. speaking of the other kwun triz, joining us now is craig tim burg of the washington post who shares the by line as the senator mentioned which adds concern to what is laid out in the senate intelligence report. the headline of the washington post piece, it s not just the russians any more as iranians and others turn up disinformation ahead of the 2020 vote. how many countries and which countries does the u.s. have to consider a security threat to the next election? i mean, the article focuses on iran, which is fascinating. china, we know, has a huge industrial spying effort going on in addition to national security spying. 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 they all have a different agenda. we could have a much more complex ki
not even running yet. the daily beast said it was described as the intelligence community sees 2020 as potentially the perfect storm according to a dhs familiar official with the teams. we know that russia is going to be engaged. other state actors have seen the success of russia and realize the value of disinformation operations. it s very curious why the task forces were demoted and the bureaucracy and the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election. these budgets are being cut. the staffs are being cut rather than being increased in size by the trump administration. what does that say to you? well, it tells me that the trump administration laying the groundwork for this to happen again. they see they see benefit to dividing the democratic party and dicing it up into little groups. and if you have these subgroups who are each going and supporting one candidate and are willing to do the attacks on the other candidates that you will not see the candidate
they are looking forward to this information because they still believe that it s a catnip to the u.s. news media is that russia will be greatly rewarded and donald trump will be greatly rewarded if in fact they get this information and can spread it to hurt their enemies. theory are win at all cost players. they don t care. and malcolm, to stay with you for just a moment. the candidates we ve seen in the political article, kamala harris, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, beto o rourke, who is not even running yet. the daily beast said it was described as the intelligence community sees 2020 as potentially the perfect storm according to a dhs familiar official with the teams. we know that russia is going to be engaged. other state actors have seen the success of russia and realize the value of disinformation operations. it s very curious why the task forces were demoted and the bureaucracy and the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election. these budgets
presidential primary field and it s two things in particular. one is, that i think the candidates should commit to a pledge, they should commit together to not use these elicit tactics in their own campaigns, bots, troll farms, fake accounts, right, hack materials. we should have declared an arms race over on this stuff and make sure we aren t using these same tactics that were used against us against one another. the second thing is the campaigns and the dnc will have to set up disinformation operations. we ran a an extensive disinformation operation. we did take downs on twitter, facebook and youtube and showed you can control this environment. we re to the powerless. i think the dnc and the candidates will have to come together in the coming months and commit to a common approach. i know that the state parties and some of the presidentials are already talking about this and i m optimistic we re going to be able to do this. i wish we had more time. we had a lot of breaking news. fo