NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Two former co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission believe foreign nations can influence American culture without many realizing it by using technology and social media.
In a meeting before the congressional committee on Foreign Affairs they stated. “The use of internet to radicalize and recruit homegrown terrorists is the single most important and dangerous innovation since the attacks of September 11, 2001.”
News 2’s Alex Denis spoke with a few intelligence officials in Middle Tennessee who agree.
“There are other ways that they are coming at us, but technology is one way they are attacking our country,” says David Rausch, Director for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
“I will throw the internet under the bus and social media,” agrees Greg Mays, Director for Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security. He continues, “There’s been something going on in the country for the last few years where people are just disgruntled and mean and taking it out in the cyber world.”
“It’s kinda boiled to this point where really that’s become our major concern, and there are groups taking advantage of that,” Rausch says.
“So, you’re saying they’re interjecting into the conversation to get everyone riled up?” Denis asks.
“Yeah exactly. Yes. That’s been proven. China, Iran, Russia are the three biggest concerns.”
They both say there’s evidence these nation-state threat actors interject lies into conversations online.
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