The Justice Department on Thursday released the findings of a cyber task force created in February by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying it will now implement a policy that will let the public know when a foreign government is attempting to influence American politics.
“Influence operations are a form of information warfare,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in prepared remarks at Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on Thursday. “Exposing schemes to the public is an important way to neutralize them. The American people have a right to know if foreign governments are targeting them with propaganda.”
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