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Mark Warner’s Anti-TikTok Algorithm

A candid conversation with the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Ukraine leak, his proposed social media legislation, Putin, Xi, and Elon Musk.

Virginia Senator Mark Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and seasoned veteran on issues of national security.
Virginia Senator Mark Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and seasoned veteran on issues of national security. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Julia Ioffe
April 11, 2023

Over the holiday weekend, The New York Times reported that a tranche of highly sensitive U.S. intelligence documents had been leaked. Photographs of the folded-up pages—many of them from classified briefings for the Joint Chiefs—began popping up on Telegram and Twitter. Upon further investigation, it turned out that some of these images had appeared even earlier, as far back as January, on gaming sites dedicated to Fortnite and fringe message boards like 4chan.