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  • SENATE REPUBLICAN WANTS TO HOLD HEARINGS ON 9/11

    04/22/2025 11:57:47 AM PDT · by RandFan · 53 replies
    Politico ^ | 22 April | By Ben Jacobs
    Sen. Ron Johnson is actively investigating 9/11. A day after the Wisconsin Republican went on a far-right podcast promoting conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a spokesperson for Johnson said the lawmaker is currently seeking information and documentation in order to hold hearings on the event nearly 25 years later. He would do so in his capacity as chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, one of Congress’s most storied and powerful panels with far-reaching jurisdiction that gives its chair wide latitude to probe a diverse array of matters. It has...
  • Chinese Influence Operation Urged Spaniards to 'Overthrow the Government', Intelligence Firm Claims

    01/30/2025 9:56:04 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    Euronews ^ | 30/01/2025 | Kieran Guilbert
    Intelligence firm Graphika said a Beijing-linked campaign known as "Spamouflage" spread disinformation about Spain's deadly floods last year. A Chinese online influence operation impersonated a human rights group in Spain to spread calls on social media for the Spanish government to be overthrown following deadly floods in Valencia last year, according to research by intelligence firm Graphika. The Chinese state-linked campaign — dubbed "Spamouflage" by analysts — posed as the Spain-based NGO Safeguard Defenders on social media platforms including Facebook, TikTok and X to circulate content criticising the government's response to the floods that killed at least 225 people last...
  • DOJ alleges Russia funded US media company linked to right wing social media stars.

    09/06/2024 4:59:10 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 41 replies
    CNN ^ | 9/5/24 | Zachary Cohen, Donie O'Sullivan, Evan Perez, Sean Lyngaas and Majlie de Puy Kamp,
    The unnamed Tennessee-based company that the Justice Department alleges was being funded by Russian operatives working as part of a Kremlin-orchestrated influence operation targeting the 2024 US election is Tenet Media, which is linked to right-wing commentators with millions of subscribers on YouTube and other social media platforms, according to a US official briefed on the matter. The indictment unsealed in New York’s Southern District accused two employees of RT, the Kremlin’s media arm, of funneling nearly $10 million to an unidentified company, described only as “Company 1” in court documents. CNN has independently confirmed that “Company 1” is Tenet...
  • Iran surges cyber-enabled influence operations in support of Hamas (Deceptive Taqyyia, sockpuppets too)

    03/06/2024 7:54:16 PM PST · by Milagros · 5 replies
    Microsoft ^ | Feb 7 2024
    Iran surges cyber-enabled influence operations in support of Hamas. 02/07/2024 Iran surges cyber-enabled influence operations in support of Hamas Introduction As the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7, 2023, Iran immediately surged support to Hamas with its now well-honed technique of combining targeted hacks with influence operations amplified on social media, what we refer to as cyber-enabled influence operations.1 Iran’s operations were initially reactionary and opportunistic. By late October, nearly all of Iran’s influence and major cyber actors focused on Israel in an increasingly targeted, coordinated, and destructive manner, making for a seemingly boundless “all-hands-on-deck” campaign against Israel. Unlike...
  • Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks

    08/24/2018 11:47:38 PM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 19 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | August 24, 2018 4:55 pm | Bill Gertz
    China's Communist Party is intensifying covert influence operations in the United States that include funding Washington think tanks and coercing Chinese Americans, according to a congressional commission report. The influence operations are conducted by the United Front Work Department, a Central Committee organ that employs tens of thousands of operatives who seek to use both overt and covert operations to promote Communist Party policies. The Party's United Front strategy includes paying several Washington think tanks with the goal influencing their actions and adopting positions that support Beijing's policies. "The [Chinese Communist Party] has sought to influence academic discourse on China...
  • Forget Russia, China’s ‘influence operations’ against U.S. are far more effective

    08/22/2018 11:55:47 AM PDT · by SleeperCatcher · 9 replies
    GreatPowerWar.com ^ | 8/21/18 | USA Features
    With much of the country’s attention focused on Russian “influence operations” ahead of the 2018 elections, one long-time China watcher says that Beijing has historically posed a much bigger threat to the U.S. than Moscow and continues to do so, though that is changing thanks to the policies of the Trump administration. “It’s a huge problem. China’s information and influence operations have been extremely effective,” Bill Gertz, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon and author of several books detailing the Chinese threat to the U.S., told Fox News Tuesday. “They are literally buying up former officials. They are utilizing...