Psychological warfare
Information operations to assist military objectives
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| 2025 |
False flag
During the Canadian federal election campaign, Liberal Party strategists were exposed for a failed false flag operation. They placed 'Stop the Steal' buttons at a Conservative Party event, hoping to associate Conservative supporters with Donald Trump. After a CBC News journalist reported the incident, Liberal leader Mark Carney reassigned the involved operatives.
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| 2024 |
Lawfare
Scott McGregor, a former military and RCMP intelligence official, shares his experience of facing a defamation claim from a group associated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the Vancouver International Security Summit, highlighting a practical example of lawfare.
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| 2024 |
Lawfare
During the Vancouver International Security Summit, Cynthia Alkon, a law professor from Texas A&M University, discusses lawfare and delivers insights on the first university class on lawfare in the United States.
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| 2024 | An investigation by multiple media outlets uncovered leaked documents from the 'Agency of Social Design', revealing their involvement in large-scale disinformation campaigns. The agency produced approximately 40,000 content units (including memes, images, and comments) over a 4-month period, targeting governments of France, Poland, Germany, and Ukraine. |
| August 16 2024 | Principal photography for The Accountant 2 wrapped up in California. |
| March 25 2024 | Principal photography began in California, with Seamus McGarvey returning as cinematographer. |
| February 2024 | Amazon MGM Studios acquired distribution rights from Warner Bros. Pictures, with an estimated $10 million in qualified spending and tax incentives. |
| July 1 2023 | The Internet Research Agency was announced to be shut down following the aftermath of the Wagner Group rebellion. |
| February 2023 | Yevgeny Prigozhin publicly admits to founding, creating, and managing the Internet Research Agency, following his previous admission of Russian interference in U.S. elections. |
| February 2023 | Team Jorge is publicly exposed by an international consortium of investigative journalists from Israel and France, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, revealing the organization's extensive election manipulation activities. |
| February 16 2023 | India's Congress Party publicly demanded an investigation into Team Jorge's potential interference in Indian elections, with party spokesperson Pawan Khera and social media head Supriya Shrinate highlighting concerns about online disinformation and electoral manipulation. |
| January 2023 | Media presenter M'Barki was suspended during an inquiry by international investigative reporting teams for broadcasting segments potentially created by Team Jorge without editor approval. |
| 2022 | Undercover journalists conduct a sting operation in Tel Aviv, secretly recording interactions with Tal Hanan, the group's leader, to expose Team Jorge's methods. |
| 2022 | Team Jorge ran a campaign claiming the Polisario Front has ties to Hezbollah and Iran. |
| 2022 | Team Jorge conducted a disinformation campaign called #RIP_Emmanuel, creating a death hoax about social media personality Emmanuel the emu, which resulted in over 1,300 tweets. |
| 2022 | Tal Hanan demonstrated the ability to hack Dennis Itumbi's Telegram account during the Kenyan general election, which was confirmed by Itumbi himself. |
| 2022 |
QAnon
The Anti-Defamation League reported growing overlap between QAnon adherents and sovereign citizens movement.
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| June 24 2022 |
QAnon
Q posts on 8kun after an 18-month hiatus, claiming Cassidy Hutchinson was involved in a plot to disparage Trump.
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| June 24 2022 |
QAnon
Q posts on 8kun after an 18-month hiatus, suggesting continued relevance of the conspiracy theory
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| June 24 2022 |
QAnon
Q returned to posting on 8kun after an 18-month hiatus, with a post about Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony.
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| May 2022 |
QAnon
The New York Times reported that QAnon supporters were intercepting child migrants at the Mexico–United States border and collecting information about their families under the premise of preventing sex trafficking.
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| April 2022 |
False flag
FSB staged a false flag operation involving an alleged Ukrainian assassination plot against Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, which was undermined by comical details such as three Sims 3 expansion packs and a poorly staged note, ultimately revealing the operation's fabricated nature.
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| April 2022 |
QAnon
Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested several members of the YamatoQ QAnon group for breaking into a COVID-19 vaccination health clinic.
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| March 2022 |
QAnon
QAnon promoters began echoing Russian disinformation about alleged US-funded laboratories in Ukraine, coinciding with the Russian invasion.
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| February 2022 |
False flag
U.S. officials continued to warn about potential Russian false flag operations in Ukraine as tensions escalated.
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| February 24 2022 |
False flag
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, preceded by an intensive disinformation campaign featuring fabricated false flag videos alleging Ukrainian attacks on Russia.
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| January 2022 |
False flag
U.S. officials warned that Russian operatives were planning a false flag operation in Ukraine to justify a military intervention.
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| November 2 2021 |
QAnon
QAnon predicted John F. Kennedy or John F. Kennedy Jr. would appear in Dallas to announce Trump's reinstatement as president and Kennedy Jr. as vice president.
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| October 2021 |
QAnon
Facebook bans all QAnon groups and pages, significantly reducing the movement's online presence
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| September 2021 | Director O'Connor announced plans to expand The Accountant into a trilogy, with the second movie's production underway and plans for a third film described as a 'buddy film' similar to 'Rain Man on steroids'. |
| September 2021 | Gavin O'Connor revealed the sequel was in development, with a possibility of a third film. Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal were confirmed to reprise their roles as Christian Wolff and Brax. |
| August 13 2021 |
QAnon
After previous predictions failed, QAnon adherents predicted Trump would be reinstated on this date.
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| March 20 2021 |
QAnon
Another predicted date for Trump's alternate inauguration.
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| March 4 2021 |
QAnon
QAnon adherents claimed Trump would be inaugurated as the 19th president.
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| February 19 2021 |
QAnon
The New York Times reported forensic linguistic analysis suggesting Paul Furber was the main initial Q author, with Ron Watkins taking over in 2018.
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| January 2021 |
QAnon
QAnon-dedicated Facebook pages identified in 71 countries worldwide.
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| January 2021 |
QAnon
Researcher Marc-André Argentino notes QAnon-dedicated Facebook pages exist in 71 countries worldwide.
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| January 20 2021 |
QAnon
QAnon followers predicted Joe Biden's inauguration would be a trap where Democrats would be arrested en masse and executed while Trump retained power.
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| January 6 2021 |
QAnon
QAnon followers were prominently involved in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, with many participants believing in the conspiracy theory's claims about a 'deep state' and alleged election irregularities.
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| 2020 |
QAnon
QAnon's 'White Rabbit' Facebook group grew to approximately 90,000 members.
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| 2020 |
QAnon
QAnon activity nearly triples on Facebook and nearly doubles on Instagram and Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| 2020 |
Russia and Black Lives Matter
Russian interference in the US elections continued, with the Internet Research Agency outsourcing to troll farms in Ghana and Nigeria to create race-baiting content targeting US audiences on social media platforms.
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| December 8 2020 |
QAnon
Q makes the last post before a long hiatus, following the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
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| November 2020 |
QAnon
During the 2020 United States presidential election, QAnon adherents spread numerous baseless claims about election fraud and supported Donald Trump's attempts to challenge the election results.
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| October 2020 |
QAnon
Facebook announced efforts to limit the reach of the #SaveTheChildren hashtag.
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| October 2 2020 |
QAnon
U.S. House of Representatives passes a bipartisan resolution condemning QAnon in a 371-18 vote
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| September 2020 |
QAnon
Brennan further suggests that Paul Furber was the original Q poster before the Watkins family took control
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| September 2020 |
QAnon
Facebook and Instagram attempted to prevent #SaveTheChildren from being associated with QAnon by redirecting users searching for the hashtag to the child welfare group.
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| August 2020 |
QAnon
Facebook began systematically removing QAnon-related groups, pages, and accounts.
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| August 19 2020 |
QAnon
Trump publicly acknowledges QAnon during a press conference, saying he appreciates that they 'like me very much'
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