Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter’s compliance with settlement
FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names
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For years, the Department of Homeland Security has run a virtually unknown program gathering domestic intelligence, one of many revelations in a wide-ranging tranche of internal documents reviewed by POLITICO.
DHS has a program gathering domestic intelligence — and virtually no one knows about it
Broadcasts of RT, the former Russia Today, have been pulled over Africa. While the channel went dark on South Africa’s DStv pay-TV bouquet in March last year, there were still transmissions on StarSat and StarTimes for many African countries.
RT pulled from African transmissions
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‘Take your dirty hands off Turkey,’ Ankara rails against US envoy
On Thursday, Soylu condemned the closures as an attempt to meddle in campaigning for Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, which are scheduled for 14 May. The Turkish interior minister and other officials also suggested that the Western states had issued the security warnings in order to pressure Turkey to tone down its criticism of the sacrilegious move and resolve the NATO dispute.
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Turkish minister tells US ambassador ‘Take your dirty hands off Turkey’ as sanctions sparks fly
Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for May 14 are fast approaching—angry rhetoric from the Erdogan regime, designed to nationalistically rouse its core vote, is no surprise. Nor are angry interventions from US politicians who dislike the unreliability of Turkey as a Nato ally, but at the same time stop short of anything that could irretrievably wreck relations with a country crucially located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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Brian Nelson, the US Treasury Department’s top sanctions official, visited Turkish government and private sector officials on February 2 to urge more cooperation in disrupting the flow of goods that Russia can put to use in persisting with its war on the Ukrainians.
In a speech to bankers, reported by Reuters, Nelson said a pronounced year-long rise in exports to Russia left Turkish entities ‘particularly vulnerable to reputational and sanctions risks‘, or lost access to G7 markets.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, U.S. officials have watched with some anxiety as billions of American dollars flowed into the country, well aware of Kyiv’s history of political corruption and fearing that aid might be siphoned off for personal gain.
Ukraine Corruption Scandal Stokes Longstanding Aid Concerns in U.S.
Former CIA analyst Fulton Armstrong told The Guardian that, in Cuba, “a lot of the so-called independent journalists are indirectly funded by the US”. They spread anti-government disinformation with the support of the NED.
US funds ‘independent journalists’ in Cuba to spread propaganda, ex CIA spy admits
If U.S. Congress is going to form a special subcommittee looking at government overreach and illegality, then it should do exactly that.
John Kiriakou: GOP Has Not Created a New Church Committee
Ukraine’s intelligence service asked a respected Danish journalist to prove she was not a pro-Russia propagandist by making pro-Ukraine propaganda.
Danish Reporter Says Ukrainian Intelligence Tried to Coerce Her Into Working as a Propagandist (archived)
The Intercept, still not reporting that the Euromaidan was a coup:
Internal Twitter documents claim the Trump admin wanted tech companies to combat “misinformation that could stoke panic buying and behaviors.”
Trump tech advisor reportedly urged Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to “combat misinformation”
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REPORT: Trump And Biden Admins Pressured Twitter To Suppress Critics Of COVID Narrative
The pressure campaign from the White House reportedly began during the Trump administration and continued into the Biden administration, according to Zweig. Both administrations “directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content according to their wishes,” Zweig said.
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