🧵Attacks on civil society are strong indicators that human rights violations are imminent. We should pay attention to HR 9495.
Supporters frame it as a counterterrorism measure, but what it allows resembles the dynamics in bills later used to suppress and control NGOs.
🧵I apologize for the wait but hopefully this makes up for it. We released a series summarizing content but also a data analysis of tweets and headlines.
Pronouncing Nonsense in German
This report covers content shares between April 23 to May 3, 2024 infoepi.org/posts/2024/05/08-german-doppelganger-may-2024.html
NOTE: This brief will outline the topics in content but will not address the operation’s mechanics because many other researchers have addressed them at length. See 45 titles from 36 sources over 1.6 years here: infoepi.org/posts/2024/04/19-doppelganger-lit-review.html
I see multiple fake videos or false claims with community notes on any given day. Some of it is stuff like this where it's pretty obvious, but the eye-opener is how many posts wouldn't have necessarily stood out to me as suspicious and misleading.
🔍InfoEpi Lab Study on X (formerly Twitter): This study analyzed content in three categories: Israel-Hamas, Ukraine, and vaccines. Posts from accounts with top tweets in multiple categories were significantly more negative than average.
BRIEF: infoepi.org/posts/2023/10/24-study-brief
Trio-authors: 37 accounts had high-performance tweets across all three topics, henceforth called trio-authors. While some were relevant experts or community leaders, many were armchair experts with problematic track records. infoepi.org/posts/2023/10/24-israel-ukraine-vaccines#def-definitions
A new report discusses how volatile networks are being used for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Targeted outlets have previously faced censorship and intimidation efforts, including the arrest of employees, physical violence, and online harassment. qurium.org/weaponizing-proxy-and-vpn-providers/volatile-networks/
Entities are leveraging expendable IP networks to launch these attacks, which require access to a large number of IP addresses to bypass detection systems based largely on IP reputation.
The United States, historically critical of nations like Iran and Saudi Arabia for exporting extremist ideologies, now faces accusations of spreading its own extremist beliefs. And the criticisms are more than warranted. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/american-hatred-goes-global
In my research for a project related to Eastern Europe, over and over, I keep shaking my head, saying, "This is from the US. This came from us."
Using a network of shell companies, Marchenko and his associates deceived U.S. distributors, claiming the technology was for medical research in places like China and Hong Kong.
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Following a speech by Xi Jinping advocating for the continuation of these policies against the Uyghurs, the ETGE has called for international intervention.
Despite global outcry, President Xi Jinping remains determined to pursue these actions. hrw.org/news/2022/09/01/china-new-un-report-alleges-crimes-against-humanity