Zero proof’: Twitter reacts to Clapper’s claims that RT influenced US election
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Amused social media users have taken to Twitter following claims by the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, that RT’s reporting on US issues was part of a campaign to influence the US election.
The outgoing director said RT was part of a “multifaceted Russian campaign” aimed at “promoting a particular point of view, disparaging our system, our alleged hypocrisy about human rights, etc.”
Clapper was briefing the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, at a hearing about cybersecurity challenges. “Whatever crack, fissure they could find in our tapestry, they would exploit it,” he continued.
DNI Clapper: 'RT was very active in disparaging our system, our alleged hypocrisy about human rights, etc' on.rt.com/7zm4
The comments prompted a wave of reactions from social media users who ridiculed the notion.
It's painful listening to James Clapper offering Congress ZERO proof of #russianhacking . It's proof that having the Clap hurts.
Clapper went on to say that Russia’s use of fake news and hacking to interfere in the US election was cause for “grave concern”.
"I don't think that we have ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process," Clapper claimed, adding that Russia poses an “existential threat” to the United States. He admitted, however, that the alleged hacking didn’t influence the outcome of elections.
Twitter responses to Clapper’s testimony ranged from the incredulous to the hilarious.
DNI Clapper saying the #russianhacking was an act of espionage, not an attack "per se" and that US engages in similar behavior.
As a method of countering Russian interference, Clapper suggested re-establishing the United States Information Agency, the body that oversaw US government propaganda between 1953 and 1999 before being replaced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).
“We could do with having a USIA on steroids to fight this information war a lot more aggressively than we’re doing right now,” Clapper said. This statement also sparked a response with several people suggesting the body already existed it just isn’t doing its job very effectively.
already happened via RFE. BBG budget of c.$750 > x2 Sputnik Intl. RFE actively funds antiRus media. prob its crap at its propaganda job twitter.com/juliaioffe/sta…
In practice this would be a US version of RT, which Clapper spent part of his testimony disparaging.twitter.com/NoahShachtman/…
Cha-Ching! RT @emptywheel: Clapper endorses a US Info Agency on steroids.
(I see a bunch of 'roided up contractors tweeting nonsense.)
Last month President Barack Obama asked US intelligence agencies to conduct a full review of alleged “Russian hacking.” Clapper told Congress that an unclassified version of that report will be released to the public "early next week".
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