
Issues like race, or gender, or sexual orientation may, like pineapple pizza, make the United States uniquely vulnerable to these attacks. The fact that it transcends political lines makes it more powerful in terms of expanding its reach," he said. "What’s useful about the pineapple thing is that it’s cross-cutting, it’s random. "How do you take the tactics, techniques, and procedures of the bad guys, and educate the American people? How do you explain, 'This is how you’re being manipulated, this is how they’re hacking your brain?'" Krebs said his agency is trying to strengthen the national immune system for disinformation. It was whether tropical fruit belongs on your dinner order.ĬISA breaks down the playbook of foreign influencers into five steps: targeting divisive issues (see: pineapple pizza), moving accounts into place, amplifying and distorting the conversation, making the mainstream (see: NBC News story about pineapple pizza), and taking the conversation into the real world. Their topic wasn’t race, or politics, or any other traditionally divisive issue. The tweet was accompanied by a tongue-in-cheek poster describing the tactics by which foreign trolls divide voters and inject chaos into an election. #waronpineapple /h5KHtiRqqe- Chris Krebs July 25, 2019
