Russia can’t disinfo their way out of the casualties forever “Relatives of Russian soldiers killed in the Ukraine war say they were defending both countries from fascists” īy the time I met Clint in January 2016 in New York City, he had left the FBI and joined the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where he remains a fellow. By October 2001, Clint was one of those agents, focusing on counterterrorism. The FBI massively ramped up its recruiting, hiring “a thousand agents in one year which they had never done before” he tells me over our Zoom call. In August 2001, he put in his application for the FBI. Instead, he attended West Point, a place that he says he felt “lucky” to attend.Īfter graduating and becoming an infantry company commander in the United States Army, Clint decided to start exploring other career options. Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be: “I couldn’t see well enough to ever be one”, he says wistfully.
CLINT WATTS MOVIE
Growing up in Missouri, he originally wanted to be a pilot after watching 1983 movie The Right Stuff, a movie centred around the nascent years of the U.S. He offered his opinions regarding how he believes Russia perpetuates misinformation via social media, how he believes that misinformation is currently working during the war in Ukraine, what’s currently happening in the war, how the war will end, and how he believes Elon Musk taking Twitter private won’t do much to stem the tide of misinformation.Ĭlint Watts never planned on becoming a Russian cyberwarfare specialist.
With the acquisition of Miburo, we will continue our mission to take action, and to partner with others in the public and private sectors to find long-term solutions that will stop foreign adversaries from threatening public and private sector customers and, in fact, the very foundations of our democracy.I recently sat down with Clint Watts, a former FBI Agent and author of Messing With The Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians and Fake News, known for his work on tracking Russian influence via social media and how that impacted US elections led him to give congressional testimony four times. Miburo’s research teams detect and attribute malign and extremist influence campaigns across 16 languages. Miburo has become a leading expert in identification of foreign information operations. Working in close collaboration with the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center, our Threat Context Analysis team, our data scientists and others, the new analysts from Miburo will enable Microsoft to expand its threat detection and analysis capabilities to address new cyber-attacks and shed light on the ways in which foreign actors use information operations in conjunction with other cyber-attacks to achieve their objectives. Miburo, led by founder Clint Watts, will become part of the Customer Security and Trust organization. These efforts are underpinned by the threat intelligence we gather, publish, and use to fuel disruptions of malicious nation-state activity across a range of cyber-attack vectors. Microsoft detects and helps customers defend against cyber threats from nation-states as part of our commitment to keep customers safe online.
Today, Microsoft is announcing that we have entered into an agreement to acquire Miburo, a cyber threat analysis and research company specializing in the detection of and response to foreign information operations.
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