Clapper: United States Must Beef Up Information Warfare Capabilities
By Yasmin Tadjdeh
The United States must increase its investment in information warfare as it faces cyber attacks from Russia, the Director of the Office of National Intelligence James Clapper said Jan. 5.
Moscow was behind a series of cyber attacks that sought to influence the 2016 presidential election, Clapper said. It also orchestrated a wave of “fake news” to attempt to sway voters, he said.
“This was a multifaceted campaign,” he said during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “The hacking was only one part of it and it also entailed classic propaganda, disinformation, fake news.”
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