Sec. 9301. Requirement for facilitation of establishment of social media data and threat analysis center
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Subsection (c)(1) of section 5323 of the Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020 (division E of Public Law 116–92 ; 50 U.S.C. 3369 ) is amended— by striking The Director and inserting Not later than June 1, 2021, the Director ; and by striking may and inserting shall . Such section is amended— by redesignating subsections
(f)and
(g)as subsections
(g)and (h), respectively; and by inserting after subsection
(e)the following new subsection (f): Not later than 90 days before the date of each regularly scheduled general election for Federal office, the Director of the Center shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on foreign malign influence campaigns on and across social media platforms targeting such election. Each report under subparagraph
(A)shall include an analysis of the following: The patterns, tools, and techniques of foreign malign influence campaigns across all platforms on social media by a covered foreign country targeting a regularly scheduled general election for Federal office. Inauthentic accounts and bot networks across platforms, including the scale to which such accounts or networks exist, how platforms currently act to remove such accounts or networks, and what percentage of such accounts or networks have been removed during the period covered by the report. The estimated reach and impact of intentional or weaponized disinformation by inauthentic accounts and bot networks, including an analysis of amplification by users and algorithmic distribution. The trends of types of media that are being used for dissemination through foreign malign influence campaigns, including machine-manipulated media, and the intended targeted groups. Not later than August 1, 2021, the Director of the Center shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report under subparagraph
(A)addressing the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office occurring during 2020. Each report under this paragraph shall be submitted in an unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. Not later than 30 days after the date on which the Director submits to the appropriate congressional committees a report under paragraph (1), the Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall provide to such committees a briefing assessing threats from foreign malign influence campaigns on social media from covered countries to the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office covered by the report. Each briefing under subparagraph
(A)shall include the following: The patterns, tools, and techniques of foreign malign influence campaigns across all platforms on social media by a covered foreign country targeting a regularly scheduled general election for Federal office. An assessment of the findings from the report for which the briefing is provided. The activities and methods used to mitigate the threats associated with such findings by the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, or other relevant departments or agencies of the Federal Government. The steps taken by departments or agencies of the Federal Government to cooperate with social media companies to mitigate the threats identified. . Subsection
(h)of such section, as redesignated by subsection
(b)of this section, is amended to read as follows: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional intelligence committees; the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate. The terms covered foreign country and foreign malign influence have the meanings given those terms in section 119C of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3059 ). The term machine-manipulated media has the meaning given that term in section 5724. . Subsection
(d)of such section is amended— in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking If the Director and all that follows through the Center, the and inserting The ; and in paragraph (1), by striking 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and inserting August 1, 2021 . Subsection
(g)of such section, as redesignated by subsection
(b)of this section, is amended by striking fiscal year 2020 and 2021 and inserting fiscal year 2021 and 2022 . Such section 5323 is further amended— in the section heading, by striking ; and Encouragement of in subsection (c)— in the subsection heading, by striking and inserting Authority ; and Requirement in paragraph (1), in the paragraph heading, by striking and inserting Authority . Requirement
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