Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on impact of fake news stories — Transcript
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- 0:00General Clapper uh one of the aspects of
- 0:02this uh Russian hacking was not just
- 0:06disseminating information that they had
- 0:08exploited from uh computers but also the
- 0:12allegations of fake news sites fake news
- 0:16stories that were propagated is that an
- 0:19accurate or is that one aspect of this
- 0:22problem yes without getting uh too far
- 0:25in front of the headlights of the U our
- 0:28roll out next week
- 0:30uh to the Congress um that was a this uh
- 0:35was a multifaceted campaign so the
- 0:39hacking uh was only one part of it uh
- 0:43and it also
- 0:45entailed um you know classical
- 0:49propaganda disinformation fake news does
- 0:53that
- 0:54continue yes
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