{"id":1911912,"date":"2023-04-08T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T19:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-using-social-media-to-recruit-russians-for-information\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T15:15:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T19:15:19","slug":"fbi-using-social-media-to-recruit-russians-for-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-using-social-media-to-recruit-russians-for-information\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI using social media to recruit Russians for information"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-using-social-media-to-recruit-russians-for-information%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1911912&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">T<\/span>he <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a> is using social media to try and recruit Russians and other information as the United States continues to aid Ukraine in its war with <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Fox News reports that the FBI is searching for scouts, foreigners, and anyone with info about Russian President Vladimir Putin in the selection game, which was posted to Facebook and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. The video shows images from Washington, D.C., as well as the Russian Embassy.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/courts\/boston-fbi-wrong-apartment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BOSTON FBI Recruits HANDCUFFED AND INTERROGATED MAN FOR NEARLY AN HOUR AND BROKE INTO WRONG APARTMENT.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Would you like to alter your outlook? Assistant Director <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about\/leadership-and-structure\/fbi-executives\/kohler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Kohler<\/a> of the FBI&#8217;s&#8217;s Counterintelligence Division said. &#8221; You are valued by the FBI.&#8221; Although the FBI can assist you, only you have the authority to initiate contact.<\/p>\n<p>This new <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> strategy seemed to have started in February, the same month that the Ukrainian War commemorated its first celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Hoffman, a former chief of the CIA Moscow Station, expressed support for the campaign, telling the media that the message on social media was&#8221; sharp&#8221; and&#8221; mart.&#8221; Rebekah Koffler, a indigenous Russian speaker and former member of the Defense Intelligence Agency, expressed less enthusiasm for the campaign, telling Fox News Digital that the FBI&#8217;s&#8217;s video was imperfect and that his remark occasionally lacked context, which&#8221; undermines the trust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Koffler argued that the government effectively using their campaign is unlikely, despite the FBI&#8217;s&#8217;s most recent campaign trying to reach a wider audience for potential recruitment because younger people are&#8221; constantly on social media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Koffler said,&#8221; I wish them luck, but my confidence level in this program&#8217;s&#8217;s success is almost zero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER, CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to the <i>New York Times<\/i>, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Defense<\/a> is investigating how top-secret information with information about the war in Ukraine were made public on social media. These documents include maps of Ukraine, charts of where troops are gathered, and information on the weapons that are available to them. The images taken of the creased charts were used in the pictures that were posted on Twitter and Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sabrina Singh, the Pentagon&#8217;s&#8217;s deputy press director,&#8221; We are aware of the stories of social media posts, and the ministry is reviewing the question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is using social media to try and recruit Russians and other information as the United States continues to aid Ukraine in its war with Russia. The recruitment video, which was posted to Facebook and Twitter, displays scenes from Washington, D.C., and the Russian Embassy while a narrator speaking Russian tells viewers the FBI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1911913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[5591,4188,13360,6727,5127],"class_list":["post-1911912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-fbi","tag-media","tag-recruit","tag-russians","tag-social"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}