can think of it as a mental problem. namely, women like nick narcissism. he does not believe that he is responsible to anyone. he can do no wrong. there is another term for what he s doing. this massive concentration and the executive. the independent judiciary attack on outsiders, or minority. elevation of state propaganda. that word is fascism. we ve seen this with victor or one, a great hero of the right now. we saw this with bolsonaro in brazil. we saw this in the 20th century, fascist dictators and europe. it is not something that we can simply brush aside as simply talk. this is driven not only by his personal pathologies, but by the history of fascism and the sort of movement that makes him into a cult leader. matthew, let s go back. there has been a movement for the last several presidents, to get a little bit more presidential authority, right?
that the unrest in russia could be seen as an opportunity. take us through that. yeah, an opportunity for recruitment that the cia director, bill burns, says that they are not going to let go to waste. in fact, a few weeks ago, they made clear that they would like to recruit russians who work in tech or cyber or finance to essentially be cia sources. so they created this very slick, highly produced, dramatic video appealing to russian s sense of patriotism. and it was their very first video posted to their telegram account, which bill burns pointed out yesterday in a speech here in england that it got 2.5 million views in just the first week that it was posted. here s what burns said about this once in a generation recruitment opportunity. listen. disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the russian leadership. underneath the steady diet of state propaganda and practiced
russians to the way to contact the cia, anonymously, securely through the dark web. and cia director bill burns spoke in england yesterday, gave a speech where he said that that video has been viewed 2.5 million times in the very first week since it was put out a few weeks ago. and here s what he said about why he believes that this is such an opportunity for the cia to recruit, within russia. disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the russian leadership. underneath the steady diet of state propaganda and practiced repression. that disaffection creates a once in a generation opportunity for us at cia. at our core, a human intelligence service. we re not letting it go to waste. obviously, not saying how many they ve recruited thus far or what industries that they work at, but the cia has previously said that they want to recruit people in industries like finance, tech, or cyber.
moderation at twitter has reportedly been greatly reduced, and just last month, the bbc found hundreds of russian and chinese state propaganda accounts to be highly active on twitter. let s break this down. we want to bring in takara small, she is a technologyjournalist, joining us from toronto. first of all, elon musk has taken twitter out of what is a voluntary eu disinformation code. why would he do that? i think it plays along with a lot of things that elon has done in recent months and the reason he did that is because he does not really feel the need to implement some of the rules that will become essentially legal under the digital services act and he is allowed a lot of the things, such as misinformation, disinformation, to thrive, and he has played a key part in that as well, so, signing up to this voluntary legal framework wouldn t really aligned with what he himself is doing.