In recent months, there has been increasing government scrutiny of nonprofits for alleged involvement in “foreign” activity, including receiving foreign funding and supposedly supporting foreign terrorism. Congressional committees are hauling nonprofit leaders before them to probe “foreign influence.” The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation into the Open Society Foundations on allegations including material support for terrorism.
The “Great British People” Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension. Other videos show reporters discussing “the overwhelming scale of mass immigration” and asking viewers if they miss “the Britain we used to know”. But it is not clear whether the creator of the videos knows the UK at all: the account is really run by someone based in Sri Lanka.
Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, agreed to plead guilty to one count of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government from late 2020 until 2022, the US Department of Justice said on Monday. Wang admitted that she did not notify the US government that she was acting on behalf of China while promoting pro-Beijing propaganda, the Justice Department said. Wang, 58, operated a website, called the US News Center, that published content supportive of the People's Republic of China (PRC) while purporting to provide news for Chinese Americans, the department said.
For now, and maybe for a long time, the public won't know what it contains. It could be about Bigfoot. It could be about aliens. It could be about long-term campaigns of manipulation and malign influence waged against our community by local and foreign corrupt actors. Or maybe it is a special popcorn recipe. Or perhaps it discusses the extent of infiltration and influence foreign and corrupt actors have objectively achieved in Oregon and elsewhere.
I love it when these papers talk about something unprecedented' or never happening before' as if the Biden family and the Biden administration didn't do exactly the same thing, and they were just in office, Blanche said.
Breaking news from the everything app: Not everything you see on the everything app is real. This is not news to you, of course: You are a savvy internet user. But lots of other people seemed to be shocked to learn that some high-profile accounts on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, are not who they say they are: A new feature on the app lets you see (more or less)
Many of the accounts that have been revealed to be overseas are branded as pro-Trump MAGA accounts or part of Nick Fuentes's Groypers. Fans of the new feature were also quick to point out the abundance of pro-Palestinian accounts claiming to be reporting from inside Gaza or the U.S., that were in fact as far away as Australia or Indonesia.
It's long been known that X (and Twitter before it) is a major venue for foreign influence campaigns to meddle in American politics. Much of the focus has been on Russian troll farms, which the US government has targeted on several occasions. But the launch of X's About This Account feature may have revealed the scope and geographical breadth of its foreign troll problem.
Linda Sun stands accused of being a Chinese agent. She previously served as a high-ranking official at the Chinese Consulate in New York and as an aide to two New York governors, Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo. Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, are charged with money laundering and fraud. Their trial, which will take place in Brooklyn, New York, centers on their alleged years-long work as agents for China.
A South Yorkshire police spokesperson said the force had referred the investigation on because the allegations fall under Section 3 of the National Security Act, the BBC reported. Section 3 of the act deals with assisting a foreign intelligence service. An offence is committed if someone behaves in a way that intends that conduct to materially assist a foreign intelligence service in carrying out UK-related activities, or in conduct likely to assist that service.
Chinese, Russian and North Korean-affiliated hackers are covertly working to insert backdoor hijacks and exploits into major publicly-available software used by countless organizations, developers and governments around the world.
