If the sudden popularity of the encrypted messenger Signal has seemed suspicious to you, you may be onto something – the app is at least partially funded through American foreign influence cutouts.
Signal, the ‘encrypted messenger of the future,’ has shady links to US national security interests
Tag: Open Technology Fund
Spy-funded privacy tools (like Signal and Tor) are not going to protect you from the government
Trump appointee seeks to cut off funding for global internet access group
OSC Finds ‘Substantial Likelihood’ of Wrongdoing at Global Media Agency
Hearing Reveals US Govt’s Invisible Hand in Protests Around the World
Hearing Reveals US Govt’s Invisible Hand in Protests Around the World
Trump admin cut funding to OTF, a non-profit that supports protesters in places like Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran
Trump cuts aid for pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran
Washington finally admits it has been interfering in Hong Kong
Washington finally admits it has been interfering in Hong Kong
According to expert witnesses at the hearing, many protesters and journalists in Hong Kong rely on tools produced by the USAGM’s technology arm, the Open Technology Fund (OTF). “The Hong Kong protesters are protecting their identities from surveillance by OTF tools,” said Grant Turner, who was removed by Pack in August as the USAGM’s chief financial officer.
Meanwhile:
Pentagon – Use of surveillance planes in protests was legal
US government spy planes monitored George Floyd protests
Hypocrites!
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BEHIND THE PROTESTS: THE TRUTH OF HONG KONG
Washington’s Anti-Chinese “Pan-Asian Alliance”
Washington’s Anti-Chinese “Pan-Asian Alliance”
In this way, it already has a “pan-Asian alliance” – made up of US-funded opposition groups, opposition parties, media platforms, and online information operations in virtually every one of China’s neighboring countries as well as within Chinese territory itself.
They are funded and directed out of US embassies and consulates throughout the region as well as through US government-funded organizations and agencies like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), and the Open Technology Fund (OTF) – as clearly seen behind the unrest in Hong Kong.
Trump and Steve Bannon want to turn a US-funded global media network into Breitbart 2.0
Trump and Steve Bannon want to turn a US-funded global media network into Breitbart 2.0
But Steve Bannon, who was deeply involved with getting Trump to nominate his ally Michael Pack, sees the ousters as a reckoning for an agency that he believes has been too soft on covering China.
“We are going hard on the charge,” Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist and executive chairman of Breitbart, told me. “Pack’s over there to clean house.”
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