Late last month this was from I think a Fox News report. The Trump administration officials ignited a quest to root out suspected spies from prominent U.S. media outlets. And don't you wonder how big a deal that is? How big a deal are Chinese spies or just foreign spies in general in our big media outlets including the other social media platforms plus the news? How big a deal do you think that is? Now I don't know how big a deal it is but I've said before and I'll reiterate that you should expect that in the long run, I don't know how long the long run is, I don't know if we're in the long run or approaching the long run, but in the long run you should expect all of the social media platforms and news platforms to be essentially captured by intelligence services because it's too valuable not to. It would be crazy if our CIA is not trying to capture foreign news entities at least the ones that are not owned by their own government. It would be crazy if other foreign entities are not trying to put spies into our platforms. And given that they have so much to gain and they can lose the spy now and then, nobody's going to stop spying because a spy got caught. So from the perspective of a foreign country there's this gigantic thing to be gained if you can get some control of any parts of the media in another country. Gigantic gains to be had with no risk at all because we catch spies all the time and you sort of ship them home or you send some diplomats home but basically we don't do anything. So it's a free shot. So what are the odds that China and Russia and who knows who else, what are the odds that they're not already deeply embedded into our social media and news platforms? It would be crazy to assume it's not already happening. And if it hasn't already happened completely, my prediction is it has to happen in the long run. There's no force to counterbalance it. It's like if the agencies try to get in and control any given platform and it doesn't work on the first try, what are they going to do? If the first attempt doesn't work they're not going to stop. There's nothing that would stop them. They would just try again, different person, different way. So given that the intelligence agencies have so much to gain, nothing to lose that would stop them, I mean they can lose spies but that doesn't stop any agency, that's part of the deal. You should just assume that they will all be co-opted by intelligence agencies. I don't see how it could go any other way because there's no counterbalance. You can't catch them all and there's too much to gain.

Israel is in the category of everybody else in the world who has a good intelligence agency. You should assume that all of our allies are also trying to influence our social media. So why would Israel be any different? It'd be crazy if they didn't try. Likewise it would be crazy if France and Great Britain weren't trying a little bit to influence us.