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| 2024 | Decided to upgrade CIDS from a military organizational unit to the fourth full military service branch, alongside Heer, Luftwaffe, and Deutsche Marine. |
| 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
Russian information warfare strategy includes imitating established media websites and using human commentators to drive traffic to AI-generated content sites, aiming to spread anti-American sentiment and manipulate public discourse.
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| November 5 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
Russian-originated non-credible bomb threats disrupted voting in two Fulton County, Georgia polling places. The threats targeted Democratic-leaning areas in swing states, with 67 bomb threats reported across 19 counties.
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| November 1 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
U.S. intelligence confirmed Russia was behind fake viral videos and posts involving Haitian immigrants voting for Harris and a fabricated bribery claim.
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| October 2024 | Swedish reporters identified 233 individuals across Europe connected to the united front system, and the Jamestown Foundation uncovered 103 united front-linked groups in Sweden spanning culture, business, politics, and media. |
| October 19 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
The State Department announced a $10 million reward for information on election interference and highlighted Russian media company Rybar LLC for attempting to sow discord in the United States.
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| September 23 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
A US Intelligence official revealed Russia was creating the most AI content to influence the 2024 election, aiming to improve Donald Trump's chances.
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| September 17 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
Microsoft reported intensified Russian operations creating conspiracy theory videos targeting Kamala Harris, including fabricated videos of a rally attack and a hit-and-run accusation.
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| September 13 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
The United States, Canada, and Britain announced new sanctions against RT, accusing it of being a covert arm of Russian intelligence. Meta and YouTube banned RT channels in response.
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| September 4 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted members of Tenet Media for receiving $9.7 million as part of a covert Russian influence operation targeting American right-wing influencers to spread pro-Russian content and conspiracy theories.
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| August 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
The FBI raided the homes of Scott Ritter and Dimitri Simes due to their connections to Russian state media.
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| December 2023 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
A declassified intelligence report assessed with 'high confidence' that Russia interfered in the 2022 midterm elections, seeking to denigrate the Democratic Party and undermine confidence in the election process.
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| September 2023 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
A declassified intelligence report revealed a top Putin aide hired contractors to conduct an online disinformation campaign targeting the 2024 presidential election, including the 'Good Old U.S.A. Project' which planned to use hundreds of fake online accounts across six swing states.
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| July 2023 | A group of U.S. senators asked the Department of Justice to investigate 'Overseas Chinese Service Centers' with alleged ties to the UFWD operating in seven U.S. cities. |
| May 2023 | Liang Litang, a U.S. man, was indicted for acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, surveilling and harassing Chinese dissidents, and allegedly passing information to UFWD and Ministry of Public Security officials. |
| February 2023 | Belarusian Cyberpartisans hacked and leaked Roskomnadzor data to journalists, exposing surveillance and censorship programs and methods to discredit journalists. |
| 2022 |
Gig economy
A survey by Freelancers Union revealed that 62% of freelancers in New York had experienced wage theft, highlighting ongoing challenges in the gig economy.
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| 2022 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
A Federal Election Commission investigation found that American Ethane Company, with investments from Russian oligarchs, had contributed Russian money to US political candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, primarily in Louisiana.
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| 2022 |
Vatnik Soup
Pekka Kallioniemi started the Vatnik Soup Twitter thread series documenting Russian disinformation actors, initially focusing on local Finnish pro-Russian figures.
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| October 2022 | Shi Taifeng becomes the most recent head of the United Front Work Department, taking office in October 2022. |
| April 2022 | Roskomnadzor drew up a legal protocol against TikTok and successfully obtained a court ruling in Moscow that fined the social media platform two million rubles (approximately US$27,000) for failing to remove content related to the LGBT community. |
| April 2022 | Roskomnadzor fined Google more than 7 billion rubles (approximately US$94 million) for failing to remove content that the agency claimed was illegal from YouTube. |
| April 28 2022 | Twitter was fined 3 million rubles (US$41,000) by Roskomnadzor after being sued for not removing content with instructions on preparing and using Molotov cocktails against Russian armored vehicles. |
| April 23 2022 | Roskomnadzor blocked the online chess website Chess.com in Russia due to two articles critical of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the website's replacement of Russian users' flags. The entire website was blocked because it uses HTTPS protocol, despite the general prosecutor's office initially only requesting removal of two specific articles. |
| March 31 2022 | Roskomnadzor made further threats to block Wikipedia, demanding removal of 'misinforming' information about the invasion, with potential fines up to 4 million rubles. |
| March 24 2022 |
Block of Wikipedia in Turkey
The European Court of Human Rights dismissed the case concerning Wikipedia's block in Turkey after the site was unblocked.
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| March 21 2022 | Roskomnadzor took further action after a court ruled Meta Platforms guilty of 'extremist activity', blocking access to Facebook and Instagram (but not WhatsApp) following a dispute over content moderation related to the invasion of Ukraine. |
| March 10 2022 | 820 GB of Roskomnadzor data was leaked and published by the hacking group Anonymous during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| March 4 2022 | Roskomnadzor blocked access to Facebook in response to restrictions imposed on Russian state media outlets. |
| March 1 2022 | Roskomnadzor again slowed access to Twitter, accusing the platform of not removing what it claimed were 'fake posts' about the 'special operation'. |
| March 1 2022 | Roskomnadzor threatened to block Russian Wikipedia over the article 'Russia's invasion of Ukraine (2022)', claiming the article contained 'illegally distributed information' about casualties. |
| February 2022 | A Canadian court ruled that the UFWD's Overseas Chinese Affairs Office 'engages in covert and surreptitious intelligence gathering'. |
| February 26 2022 | Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Twitter reported restricted access for some users in Russia. |
| February 24 2022 |
Vatnik Soup
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vatnik Soup expanded its scope to comprehensively document and profile individuals and organizations spreading Russian disinformation on social media.
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| January 2022 | MI5 issued an 'interference alert' for Christine Lee, a UK solicitor suspected of political interference on behalf of the UFWD. |
| 2021 | Roskomnadzor fined seven social media companies (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, and YouTube) for not removing pro-Navalny protest videos. |
| 2021 |
Digital citizen
Lithuania launched an e-Residency program similar to Estonia's digital residency initiative.
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| May 2021 |
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections
The New York Times reported that federal investigators in Brooklyn began a criminal investigation into possible efforts by Ukrainian officials to spread unsubstantiated allegations about Joe Biden's corruption, potentially using Rudy Giuliani as a communication channel.
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| April 15 2021 |
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections
The Biden administration expelled 10 Russian diplomats and sanctioned 6 Russian companies supporting cyber activities, as well as 32 individuals and entities for their role in election interference and the 2020 US federal government data breach.
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| March 2021 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
Office of the Director of National Intelligence releases analysis finding that Russian intelligence proxies promoted misleading narratives about Joe Biden to US media, officials, and prominent individuals.
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| March 10 2021 | Roskomnadzor began 'slowing down' Twitter for users in Russia, citing the platform's failure to remove content deemed illegal by the Russian government. This action caused widespread disruptions, affecting key websites, commercial services, and access to platforms like Yandex, Google, YouTube, and over 48,000 hosts with 't.co' domain names. |
| January 2021 | You Quan, head of the UFWD, was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control under Executive Order 13936 as a Specially Designated National. |
| 2020 |
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections
The RAND Corporation released research describing Russia's methodology for interfering in U.S. elections and developed machine-learning tools to detect such interference.
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| 2020 | Shortly after the commencement of the 2020 Inner Mongolia protests, the UFWD issued a communique stressing the need for all ethnic minorities in China to use Standard Chinese. |
| December 2020 | United States Department of State imposed visa restrictions on individuals active in UFWD activities who engaged in physical violence, information theft, espionage, sabotage, or interference in political, academic, privacy, or business affairs. |
| November 17 2020 |
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections
President Trump fired Chris Krebs in response to his statement about election security.
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| November 12 2020 |
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections
Chris Krebs, director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, issued a statement confirming no evidence of voting system compromise in the election.
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| October 21 2020 |
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections
Threatening emails were sent to Democrats in at least four states, purportedly from Iran, warning voters to vote for Trump, which raised questions about potential foreign interference in the election.
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| October 14 2020 |
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections
The New York Post published a controversial story about Hunter Biden's emails, which prompted an FBI investigation into potential Russian disinformation efforts.
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| October 7 2020 |
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections
Russian hackers using DoppelPaymer ransomware released all election-related information from the government of Hall County, Georgia.
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