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Canada: lawmakers targeted by China-linked 'Spamouflage' disinformation
Oct 24, 2023 (AFP)
The Global Affairs department said in a statement it had "detected a 'Spamouflage' campaign connected to the People's Republic of China." The bot network, accor...
Canada pressed to create foreign agent registry
Oct 24, 2023 (AFP)
Under such a registry, anyone acting on behalf of a foreign state to advance its goals would have to disclose those ties. The United States and Australia alread...
Old Twitter vs X: Israel-Gaza war spotlights 'information crisis'
Oct 20, 2023 (AFP)
Historically, Twitter's greatest strength was as a tool for gathering and disseminating life-saving information and coordinating emergency relief during times o...
U.S. seizes websites used by North Korean IT workers, issues updated warning
Oct 19, 2023 (UPI)
"The seizures announced today protect U.S. companies from being infiltrated with North Korean computer code and help ensure that American businesses are not use...
China formally arrests Japanese man held since March for 'espionage'
Oct 19, 2023 (AFP)
Chinese authorities frequently hold foreign nationals suspected of crimes for long stints before declaring them officially under arrest. The man, an employee of...
What to know about the EU's landmark digital content act
Oct 19, 2023 (AFP)
Brussels is baring its teeth, launching investigations into X, formerly Twitter, as well as Facebook parent Meta and TikTok following Hamas' assault on Israel o...
EU fears destabilisation from disinfo amid Israel-Hamas war
Oct 18, 2023 (AFP)
Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip attacked southern Israel on October 7, triggering a war which has left thousands of dead on both sides. There has also been ...
Musk's X rebuffs disinfo claims on Israel violence
Oct 12, 2023 (AFP)
The firm's CEO Linda Yaccarino wrote in a letter dated Wednesday that the platform had "taken action to remove or label tens of thousands of pieces of content" ...
EU to investigate Musk's X for potential Hamas-Israel conflict disinfo
Oct 12, 2023 (AFP)
The Commission said it had sent a formal request for information to X in what is a first procedure launched under Brussels' new European Digital Services Act (D...
EU warns TikTok over 'illegal content and disinformation'
Oct 12, 2023 (AFP)
The alert, and a demand that Chinese-owned TikTok respond within 24 hours with details on how it is curbing online disinformation, mirrored similar warnings Bre...
Key witness gives more damning evidence at US crypto trial
Oct 11, 2023 (AFP)
After already offering damning evidence against him on Tuesday, Ellison delivered new details on Bankman-Fried's management in which the onetime crypto wunderki...
EU's tech 'sheriff' turns to X rival in disinfo duel with Musk
Oct 11, 2023 (AFP)
Thierry Breton, the European Union's commissioner for industry and the digital economy, joined the Bluesky network in a move designed to further rile Musk, who ...
EU's tech 'sheriff' sounds disinfo alarm with Musk, Zuckerberg
Oct 11, 2023 (AFP)
Thierry Breton, EU commissioner and self-styled "digital enforcer", raised the alarm in letters sent to Elon Musk, owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, and Ma...
Star witness at US crypto trial says Bankman-Fried ordered fraud
Oct 10, 2023 (AFP)
Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried's former business partner and girlfriend, said that they had stolen "around $14 billion" from clients of the cryptocurrency trad...
US sailor pleads guilty to spying for China
Oct 10, 2023 (AFP)
Wenheng Zhao, 26, and another US sailor, Jinchao Wei, were arrested in August on suspicion of spying for China. Zhao pleaded guilty in a federal court in Califo...
Tech firms struggle as Israel-Gaza falsehoods explode
Oct 10, 2023 (AFP)
While major world events typically trigger a deluge of falsehoods, researchers say the scale and speed with which misinformation proliferated online following t...
Philippines health insurer hacked: What we know
Oct 09, 2023 (AFP)
The hackers have started releasing files including confidential memos from the stolen data to pressure the government into paying a $300,000 ransom. Here is wha...
Vietnam linked to spy campaign using EU-made malware
Oct 09, 2023 (AFP)
The NGO detailed in a report how a Vietnam-linked account on Twitter, now X, tried to infect the phones of dozens of people and institutions -- including overse...
FTX co-founder testifies against Bankman-Fried
Oct 07, 2023 (AFP)
Zixiao "Gary" Wang, a co-founder of FTX with Bankman-Fried, has already pleaded guilty to multiple counts related to the crypto trading platform's stunning coll...
Former US soldier arrested for trying to provide defense info to China
Oct 06, 2023 (AFP)
Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 29, who served in an army intelligence unit from 2015 until 2020, is charged with retaining national defense information and attempting t...
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