This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

I'm John Batchel with Malcolm Hohelan Conference of President's Major American Jewish Organizations.

The news is New York City electing a socialist mayor named Mamdani.

But the additional news is the election day and what Joel Finkelstein of the

network contagion research institute has discovered about Instagram and TikTok.

I'm unfamiliar other than they're both associated with lots of babies and puppies.

Joel, a very good evening to you. Apparently, the babies and puppies did not vote, but influence

peddling was evident in some fashion at these two sites. How so? What's the news here, Joel?

Good evening. Good evening, John. It's good to be back. Look, I don't think this is just a question of what happened online, although that's certainly a large and considerable component of Sarnemam Dani's victory in New York. I think the way to think about what's happened in New York in general is something that I think leans closer towards a concept

called subnationalism. Subnationalism is when foreign nations subvert the institutions of

democracy, its apparatuses, its corporations, its 501c3 systems, its voting powers, and they

implement their agenda beneath the surface in ways that allow them to

puppeteer democratic processes in order to control them for nefarious purposes, usually

undermining democracies themselves. And I think it's a description of what's actually

occurred here, both online and in the real world. Malcolm? Could you elaborate a little bit for us on the actual implications in terms, let's say,

of the recent election here in New York and the involvement of these sub-nationals

and utilizing organizational fronts like care or others to transfer perhaps money and mobilize support.

How does that fit into what the construct that you established?

Well, let me give you an example. We're going to get to social media a second,

but I think it's best to start with what happens on the ground because it's very illustrative.

There's an organization that was responsible for organizing votes from Mabdani from the Southeast Asian community known as

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