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Antiwar.com Original June 22, 2021 should go down as a dark day in the history of the First Amendment. On that date, the U.S. Justice Department seized control of dozens of Iranian websites. According to a Justice Department press release, the federal authorities seized 33 websites operated by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union (IRTVU), which is "linked" to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In October 2020, the Office of Foreign Assets Control designated IRTVU as a Speciall...

In using public relations firms, social media influencers, non-profit patriotic community groups, business entities, media, and politicians, the Chinese Communist Party is crafting an increasingly complex and obscure propaganda system within Canadian society to prop up economic and social policies that a

Beijing’s influence operations not only exert political influence during Canadian election campaigns, but also extend to “politicians, public servants, political actors, former parliamentarians, and diplomats,” a new report says

MP Seeks to Establish Registry to Counter Foreign Interference in Canada In an effort to counter foreign interference in Canada, legislation that would mandate people who act on behalf of foreign governments, political organizations, or corporations to register as foreign agents was introduced in the House of Commons on April 13. Bill C-282, an Act to Establish the Foreign Influence Registry, seeks to impose “an obligation on individuals acting on behalf of a foreign principal to file a retur...

13 Apr 2021 Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who emerged Tuesday as a top bidder for the Tribune Media Company, has also created a group called the Hub Project to influence U.S. elections, primarily through favorable media coverage for Democrats, the  New York Times reports. Wyss, 85, “also sits on the board of directors of the left-wing Center For American Progress, founded by longtime Clinton confidant and 2016 presidential campaign chairman John Podesta,” Fox News reported Tuesday. He ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As part of the government’s broader efforts to combat foreign threats to U.S.-funded scientific research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) have announced new requirements and recommendations relating to disclosure and oversight of sources of foreign support. Compliance with the NIH requirements is required by May 25, 2021. In this alert, we provide the following: ...

Drew Angerer/Getty Images; The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images An advocacy group sued Facebook for allegedly misleading Congress regarding hate speech moderation. The suit claims Facebook failed to remove most anti-Muslim groups presented to them in 2017. The Muslim Advocates suit underscores how tech platforms fail to moderate anti-Muslim content. A Muslim advocacy group this week sued Facebook for failing to curtail hate speech, part of techs broader problem stopping...

A Muslim advocacy group just sued Facebook for failing to remove hate-speech, and its the latest example of the techs patchwork polices that fail to crack down on Islamophobia insider@insider.com (Allana Akhtar) © Provided by Business Insider Muslim Advocates sued Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg for allegedly misleading Congress on how adequately they remove hate speech. Drew Angerer/Getty Images; The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images An advocacy group sued Facebook for allegedl...

Vladimir Putin approved operations to help Donald Trump against Joe Biden in US presidential election, report finds Posted 4 MarMarch 2021 at 12:22am Intelligence officials believe Russia leaned on Mr Trumps associates to try to tip the outcome of the election. ( Print text only Cancel Russian President Vladimir Putin authorised influence operations to help Donald Trump in last Novembers presidential election, according to a declassified intelligence assessment that found broad efforts by the...

No Evidence Found that a Foreign Government Manipulated Any Election Results WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), released today key findings and recommendations from a joint report to the President issued last month on the impact of foreign governments and their agents on the security and integrity of the 2020 U.S. federal elections.  The Departments inve...