FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS - DIRECTOR'S AM NEWS BRIEFING FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2019 5:00 AM EDT Wray Discusses Threats To 2020 Election Security At House Committee Hearing. ExecutiveGov (10/31, Edwards) reports, "FBI Director Christopher Wray said he expects threat actors from countries like Russia and China to cause possible interference in the U.S. presidential elections in 2020, The Hill reported Wednesday. 'Some of the things that the Russians have tried in other countries we expect them to try to do here as well, it's pretty common to test it out in other jurisdictions, thankfully we don't have elections every year, so that gives us a little bit of time to plan ahead,' Wray said Wednesday in his testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee." Wray "noted that China, North Korea and Iran are 'clearly interested in engaging in malign foreign influence' through disinformation efforts via social media and other activities in an attempt to interfere in the elections. 'They all have different ways of going about it, but they are all taking pages out of each others' playbooks, and as we project forward that is something that we have to be vigilant about,' Wray said of the three countries' Wray Warns That Social Media, Encryption Fuel Domestic Terrorism. The Daily Mail (UK) (10/31, 5.27M) reports, 'The FBI has warned that social media and encrypted messaging services are helping home-grown terrorists and revealed they are responsible for fatalities than international counterparts: Director Wray 'testified Wednesday at the House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington DC that the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi leaves a vacuum that will be quickly filled: According to the Daily Mail, "Asked about putting European white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups in a Foreign Terror Organization categorization, Wray said it could help but many are se-radicalized." The Daily Mail adds, The rapid development of technology has helped boost lone ter