i make no assertion as to the veracity of the claims, but they are unsurprising

as i said at the end of May—or maybe the beginning of June—foreign intelligence leadership would have been mighty foolish to not take advantage that ripe situation https://twitter.com/janjekielek/status/1334545901063467008

>largest protests in modern memory, accompanied by horrific riots

probs around the fourth big thought i had on the matter: foreign spooks are gonna try and use this to their advantage.

ex: entering the US Online Discourse to stir up unrest, as was alleged to’ve happened in ‘16

recall:

russia intelligence was alleged to have used social media advertising to target (or trawl for, ) irascible folks with certain strong opinions (and their ideological opponents) all in order to coerce them into attending an irl emotion-filled protest and counter-protest

that malicious actors, foreign and domestic, have the abusive potential to foment civil unrest via social media was officially acknowledged by the US Congress last year

to me, it is a given that hostiles used similar, similarly effective, or more advanced social media techniques to further fuel the unrest George Floyd’s death kicked off

if the claims below are true, then the TikTok Ban seems even more salient.

in the EO, it is noted that TikTok presents a national security issue for two main reasons: TikTok’s complete scraping of available data and its ability to conduct *information campaigns within the US. https://twitter.com/janjekielek/status/1334545901063467008