TAYLOR HATHORN: our weakest points of infrastructure in the United States when it comes to cyber security are really our local and our state municipalities. That is really where Chinese hackers and CCP hackers and any adversarial hackers can get into our networks and start working their way up the chain.

We have other major weak points outside of education, that we’re not fully addressing. Business, farm land, bio labs, cyber networks, etc. We can’t let our foot off the gas. @IWF pic.twitter.com/M2FsPkV9XS

— Taylor Hathorn (@TaylorHathorn) February 7, 2026

Definitely.  You know, they are effective in many ways. Look at some of the influence that the CCP has had just over our education system.  So I think it's good that Governors are paying attention.  I mean our weakest points of infrastructure in the United States when it comes to cyber security are really our local and our state municipalities.  That is really where Chinese hackers and CCP hackers and any adversarial hackers can get into our networks and start working their way up the chain.  It's a lot harder to break into the DOD network than it is a local municipality that has contracts that they work with DOD on.  And so I think that the State of Florida is very wise to do this.

Sadly, the media is no friend of ours in our information warfare battle against China, and there are some serious questions raised as to why. @yaf alum @AlexMarlow wrote about legacy media in his book, Breaking the News - it’s worth the read. @IWF pic.twitter.com/k5lpUikjjb

— Taylor Hathorn (@TaylorHathorn) February 7, 2026

It's not just one that this has happened in, right. Like that's happened several, several times under the Biden Administration and the media was complicit in covering it up.  Why would they be complicit in covering it up?  I really encourage everyone to look at the funding mechanisms of some of these major news networks and see where their tie backs to the CCP are.  Alex Marlow has a really, really good book about this I believe it's called Breaking the News: Exposing the Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption, 2021, and I encourage everyone to read it that talks a lot about why the media, like a CNN,  national media is often complicit in these things and just like with anything it usually follows the money.  So I think people just need to be educated and this does not mean be racist, right.  This does not mean look at everything with Chinese influence and think that's bad.  That is absolutely inappropriate and not the way to handle this.  But you need to be able to look at the data and look at reality . . . 

Breaking the News: Exposing the Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption, Alex Marlow, 2021.