(Op-Ed) War on pineapple pizza? ‘Foreign interference’-obsessed FBI describes US media tactics in its pre-election poster – By Nebojsa Malic (Russia Today) / May 14 2020
The Portland, Oregon FBI field office and an obscure federal agency seem to think pineapple pizza has everything to do with foreign election meddling. Thing is, their watch for divisive tactics is looking in the wrong direction.
“Americans today face a very real threat from those who seek to undermine our elections through online foreign influence operations. It’s as simple as pineapple pizza,” the office tweeted on Wednesday,, alongside a poster that uses the odd topping combination to illustrate how “foreign adversaries” seek to divide Americans online.
Americans today face a very real threat from those who seek to undermine our elections through online foreign influence operations. It’s as simple as pineapple pizza #waronpineapple #Protect2020 https://t.co/NkdnBANlmA pic.twitter.com/2lTH47GNA6
— FBI Portland (@FBIPortland) May 14, 2020
To many, it was the first glimpse of the practical output from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), one of the newest additions to the alphabet soup of American bureaucracies. The subsidiary of Homeland Security was created by President Donald Trump in November 2018, right at the peak of ‘Russiagate’ hysteria.
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