FBI Director "Russia is trying to harm Biden in election"

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FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the Russian government is “very active” in efforts to influence the 2020 presidential election by harming Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Appearing before the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday, less than two months to go until Election Day, Wray stressed that he has not seen election infrastructure targeted by Russian cyberactors like in 2016.

“I think the intelligence committee’s consensus is Russia continues to try to influence our elections, primarily through what we would call malign foreign influence, as opposed to what we saw in 2016, where there was also an effort to target election infrastructure — you know, cybertargeting. We have not seen that second part yet this year or this cycle,” Wray said. “But we certainly have seen very active efforts by the Russians to influence our election in 2020 through what I would call more the malign foreign influence side of things — social media, use of proxies, state media, online journals, etc. — in an effort to both sow divisiveness and discord, and I think the intelligence community has assessed this publicly, primarily to denigrate Vice President Biden and what the Russians see as kind of an anti-Russian establishment. That’s essentially what we’re seeing in 2020.”

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