Sentence examples for influence operations from inspiring English sources

So, while the company may have problems keeping foreign nationals from using the platform for influence operations (or garbage influencers from engaging in influence operations), at least they'll be doing it with less of an effect on climate change.

The endless unfurling of the Trump-Russia story has occasioned an explosion in the number of experts in "information warfare," "online influence operations," "disinformation," and the like.

And none of these machines are likely to arrive in time for the 2018 midterms, which, according to the director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, is likely to be a "potential target for Russian influence operations".

As Coats told the senators, "There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations".

"The Chinese influence operations are more long-term, broader in scope, and are generally designed to achieve a more diffuse goal than the Russians' are," Christopher Johnson, a former C.I.A. analyst who specializes in China, said.

He was acting with naïveté." By now, Americans are accustomed to reports of Russia's efforts to influence American politics, but, in the intelligence community, China's influence operations are a source of equal concern.

In December, U.S. intelligence agencies briefed a wider circle of officials, saying that "a member of the president's family" was being targeted by a Chinese influence operation, echoing earlier warnings.

The indictment focusses on the Internet Research Agency, a troll farm based in St .Petersburg, Russia, which, beginning in 2014, allegedly carried out an expensive and intricate influence operation concentrated on highly contested battleground states, including Florida, Virginia, and Colorado.

The doll was secretly designed by Donald Levine, the creator of the iconic G.I Joe doll in 2005, for the purposes of a CIA "influence operation" that would apparently stop children from idolising Al-Qaeda.

The United States has finally announced a comprehensive package of responses to Russia's 2016 influence operation against the U.S. elections.

In three committee hearings, representatives from Facebook, Google and Twitter were grilled about their sites' roles in facilitating the foreign influence operation.