information warfare and this isn t something that s new to the ukraine war. we ve seen it since russians tried to interfere with our elections in 2016. the american people right now have a role to play. that is not simply to accept this. it s to play defense. the best way to play defense is for ukraine for the cause of democracy is to get out there and spread a positive message. spread the real news on social media. there are certain things that i ve tweeted recently, things like the ghost of kiev, which we know is a myth of the ukrainian fighter pilot who has taken down 15 russian planes. go ahead and tweet those memes. the response we are getting from the russian troll farms, troll factories are we re exhausting their resources. this is something that is you are asking people to
operations and activities. just like the cia director did in the run-up to the 2016 election. only he called the director of the fsb personally. this time, we re going to do it through cybermeans. cyber com in the 2018 midterm elections, they used e-mails, pop-up, text messages to target trolls who were doing things and interfering in the election. how do you think about that? one of the issues with cybercrime is unlike nuclear weaponry, we have ways of knowing that s a nuclear weapon. that s a government of north korea or the government of iran. with with troll factories and third parties, how do you figure that out? you could figure out where it s coming from. do we have the ability to say, and the research center in st. petersburg is run by the russian government? well, we have the capacity to do that. we certainly working with our nato allies, identified the actual individuals as they were coming to work and logging in on their their computers. including their real names, t
complaints that the west has often leveled against russia saying that you know some of the troll factories based in st petersburg or other of the internet influenced groups are attempting to influence western elections this might be a little bit pushback against that we don t know if it s going to have any real consequences for these internet giants so far all we ve seen is that they are complaining writing these western it companies are doing something similar that russia is accused of errant tilton in moscow thank you. thank you a quick check of some other stories making news around the world a powerful typhoon with fox i lashed the japanese capital tokyo leaving one person dead and at least 10 injured caused major disruption to transport bringing train services to a standstill and grounded flights about 400000 people have been advised to evacuate their homes. protesters in hong kong have marched outside the u.s. consulate seeking support for their months long pro-democracy movement
really a kind of the heart of the matter it seems that this attack of that manifesto turns out to be genuine was really geared towards spreading fear hatred and terror among a certain population that s really the difference between domestic terrorism and a hate crime and i think this shift by prosecutors to focus on that you know within 24 hours really kind of indicates a change in. understanding of the threat that white nationalism is really portraying or. is the threat that is actually seen from white nationalism united states because previously they have no labeling this is individual events individual hate crime but we re seeing the same modus operandi the same attempts to use some of the online troll factories to spread this race as propaganda either in the minutes leading up to the attack and then shortly thereafter that s what we re seeing here again ok so you seem to be passing the bill we know that this this shooter in texas he purchased his fire just how easy is it to fishes
and they could combined attack the american electoral process and throw it into chaos. you don t need to have donald trump have votes tallied for him. you need to make it appear that the democrats have done something and then throw it into chaos. right. and have the entire thing be what donald trump called it, a rigged process. mitch mcconnell as joe scarborough has named him has earned his title of moscow mitch. he either will stand up and defend this nation, or he should just admit that he wants moscow s assistance in this next election. there is also the question of just how extensive. obviously we know about the wikileaks, about the hacked emails. we know about the troll factories and all that. but the degree to which, you know, russian hackers were inside election systems, including efforts in illinois.