The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning that Russian agents could seek to further divide Americans by exploiting U.S. passions over whether pineapple belongs on pizza. Posted online Wednesday by the department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the tongue-in-cheek
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning that Russian agents could seek to further divide Americans by exploiting U.S. passions over whether pineapple belongs on pizza.
"Foreign influencers are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to inflame hot button issues in the United States," the new DHS warning says."They don’t do this to win arguments; they want to see us divided."First, foreign agents identify a divisive issue to target -- though likely not an issue as silly as whether pineapple is an appropriate pizza topping.
The"most extreme version of arguments on both sides of an issue" often then become framed"as legitimate information sources," pushing them"into the mainstream" and carrying them to larger audiences, the DHS warning says. DHS offered this example: If the"war on pineapple" was a more serious issue, a foreign agent might tell unwitting followers to"JOIN YOUR FELLOW PIZZA LOVERS AT THE TOWN CENTER TO MARCH FOR PINEAPPLE!"
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