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Opinion- Covert alliances and assault on Syrian cities: Inside a calculated campaign
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Opinion- Covert alliances and assault on Syrian cities: Inside a calculated campaign

India Today  

The timing of the recent assaults on Syrian cities by mercenaries and global jihadist groups is far from coincidental. This collaboration paved the way for attacks on key Syrian cities, signalling a shared objective: to weaken Syria's central government and prevent it from regaining its territorial sovereignty. The incursion of mercenary terrorist groups, supported by a complex web of international …

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Meta took down over 20 covert influence operations in 2024, claims Russia biggest perpetrator
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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Meta took down over 20 covert influence operations in 2024, claims Russia biggest perpetrator

Firstpost  

Meta intercepted over 500,000 attempts to misuse its AI tools for generating misleading images of political figures such as Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, JD Vance, and Joe Biden in the month leading up to the US elections Meta’s security teams tackled a wide array of covert activities, including fake account networks and fabricated news websites designed to influence public discourse. …

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Regulating Puffery:The No.1 Solution To Covert Disparagement
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Regulating Puffery:The No.1 Solution To Covert Disparagement

Live Law  

Earlier this year, the High Court of Delhi in Kent RO Systems Ltd. v. Advertising Standards Council ofIndia & Ors., held that puffery falls outside the scope of disparaging Over the years, Courts have unequivocally restricted denigration and disparagement while indulging in comparative In this blog, the authors underscore the conflicts between recent High Court rulings. The Courts have been …

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Cong complains to ECI about Mahayuti’s ‘covert ads’
1 month, 1 week ago

Cong complains to ECI about Mahayuti’s ‘covert ads’

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Congress has complained to the Election Commission of India that the ruling Mahayuti alliance is doing covert advertising through television serials. Cong complains to ECI about Mahayuti’s ‘covert ads’ Maharashtra Congress general secretary Sachin Sawant met state chief electoral officer S Chokalingam on Friday and lodged the complaint. Sawant said that Mahayuti’s Disney Hotstar, however, aired the episodes …

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Through the looking glass - ABC listen
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Through the looking glass - ABC listen

ABC  

As Alicia Bridges investigates the beginnings of an epic deception, she finds it spans across continents. Investigative strategies involving serious and organised crime whether covert or overt, are subject to significant planning and risk assessment processes. Victoria Police applies internal operating procedures to covert investigations, which include strict parameters and risk assessment processes including consideration of human rights. Victoria Police …

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Why Russia's broadcaster RT turned to covertly funding American pro-Trump influencers
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Why Russia's broadcaster RT turned to covertly funding American pro-Trump influencers

NPR  

Why Russia's broadcaster RT turned to covertly funding American pro-Trump influencers toggle caption YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images/AFP When Olga Belogolova moved to Washington, DC, in 2010, Russian state-owned broadcaster RT was making a big push in the U.S. “I remember going to bars in this town and seeing RT on televisions, just on,” Belogolova, who is now director of …

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Russia goes all-out with covert disinformation aimed at Harris, Microsoft report says
3 months ago

Russia goes all-out with covert disinformation aimed at Harris, Microsoft report says

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The video was seen millions of times across social media but some viewers were suspicious: It featured a young Black woman who claimed Vice President Kamala Harris left her paralyzed in a hit-and-run accident in San Francisco 13 years ago. It also explains how Russian intelligence actors are collaborating with pro-Russian cyber “hacktivists” to boost allegedly hacked-and-leaked …

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Meta Bans Russian State Media Outlets From Its Apps, Kremlin Says 'Unacceptable'
3 months ago

Meta Bans Russian State Media Outlets From Its Apps, Kremlin Says 'Unacceptable'

News 18  

Meta said it is banning Russian state media outlets from its apps around the world, prompting an angry reaction from the Kremlin on Tuesday. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets,” Meta said on Monday in response to an AFP inquiry. RT was forced to cease formal operations in Britain, Canada, the European Union …

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China’s Covert Support To The Houthis: A Strategic Gamble In The Red Sea
3 months, 1 week ago

China’s Covert Support To The Houthis: A Strategic Gamble In The Red Sea

ABP News  

Since late 2023, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have created significant disruption to global shipping, with their relentless attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. By buying Iranian oil despite international sanctions, China is indirectly funding the Houthi rebels, who have been using these funds to disrupt Red Sea shipping lanes, affecting global trade networks. Houthi Attacks And The Impact On …

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Conservative influencers 'duped' into working for Russia as media company indicted for sprawling $10 million 'covert project'
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Conservative influencers 'duped' into working for Russia as media company indicted for sprawling $10 million 'covert project'

Daily Mail  

Conservative influencers were allegedly 'duped' into working with Russian assets as they raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars for their videos under a sprawling $10million 'covert project' by Kremlin-backed RT, federal officials said Wednesday. Though the indictment does not name the Tennessee-based media company, its details match up exactly with Tenet Media - which employs well-known conservative personalities like …

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Bandi Sanjay has shown himself as Revanth’s covert: BRS
4 months, 1 week ago

Bandi Sanjay has shown himself as Revanth’s covert: BRS

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: BRS legislator K.P. Vivekanand Goud on Sunday objected to Union minister of state for home Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s remarks on former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao-led party and its leaders. He said that Sanjay was “acting like a minister of state for Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, and not like a Union minister”. Reacting to Sanjay’s statement that Revanth …

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Who spread vaccine disinformation in the Philippines? The US military did
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Who spread vaccine disinformation in the Philippines? The US military did

Salon  

In June, Reuters reported on a hitherto secret U.S. program connected with the COVID pandemic. At the same time as U.S. public health officials were tearing out their hair trying to combat domestic COVID disinformation, and doctors and nurses were risking their lives caring for terminally ill vaccine refusers, their government was pumping the same ideological poison into the minds …

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Review of Covert — The Psychology of War and Peace: Language of peacemaking
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Review of Covert — The Psychology of War and Peace: Language of peacemaking

The Hindu  

When dealing with contentious issues between neighbours and arch enemies as India and Pakistan have grown to be, can established practices in counselling and mediation, like those used for unhappy married couples, be applied? During Narendra Modi’s visit to Lahore in December 2015, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asked External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar why he preferred to speak in English. …

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Israel funding covert influence campaign to push Democrats to back assault on Gaza: NY Times
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel funding covert influence campaign to push Democrats to back assault on Gaza: NY Times

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs organized and paid for a digital campaign to influence U.S. lawmakers, especially Democrats who are Black, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Stoic established fake news websites and hundreds of fake accounts on X, Instagram, and Facebook that posted pro-Israeli messages, trying to push lawmakers such as …

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OpenAI says it stalled attempts by Israel-based company to interfere in Lok Sabha Election 2024
6 months, 3 weeks ago

OpenAI says it stalled attempts by Israel-based company to interfere in Lok Sabha Election 2024

Hindustan Times  

OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, has said it acted within 24 hours to disrupt deceptive uses of AI in covert operations focused on the Indian elections, leading to no significant audience increase. In a report on its website, OpenAI said STOIC, a political campaign management firm in Israel, generated some content on Indian elections alongside about the Gaza conflict. OpenAI …

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OpenAI claims Israeli firm tried to disrupt Lok Sabha polls, peddled anti-BJP agenda
6 months, 3 weeks ago

OpenAI claims Israeli firm tried to disrupt Lok Sabha polls, peddled anti-BJP agenda

India Today  

OpenAI claims it had disrupted covert operations that sought to use artificial intelligence models to influence elections in India in a bombshell revelation just four days before results are declared for the Lok Sabha polls. A threat intel report by OpenAI claims that a for-hire Israeli firm “began generating comments that focused on India, criticised the ruling BJP party and …

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Utah man declined $100K offer to travel to Congo on ‘security job’ that was covert coup attempt
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Utah man declined $100K offer to travel to Congo on ‘security job’ that was covert coup attempt

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there from the U.S. as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt. It was one of many propositions the coup leader’s American son made to former football teammates in …

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Review: Long before Bond, ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ kicked off British covert ops
8 months ago

Review: Long before Bond, ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ kicked off British covert ops

LA Times  

Guy Ritchie’s latest, the cumbersomely titled “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” is at once his “Inglourious Basterds” and his “Dunkirk.” With his adaptation of the 2016 nonfiction book “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill’s Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops” by historian and war reporter Damien Lewis, Ritchie borrows Quentin Tarantino’s winking postmodern …

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China pulls back on CPEC, but continues covert support for Pakistan's nuclear ambitions
9 months, 2 weeks ago

China pulls back on CPEC, but continues covert support for Pakistan's nuclear ambitions

Firstpost  

The news from Pakistan is interesting. The US and its allies have long been partnering against nuclear and missile proliferation, with the Proliferation Security Initiative launched in 2003, and with some 111 countries ‘endorsing’ the move which is a non-treaty based voluntary effort to interdict and share information on any proliferation activities. US Congressional publications detail Chinese proliferation activities to …

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Toxic relationship: What is covert abuse? Signs to be aware of
10 months ago

Toxic relationship: What is covert abuse? Signs to be aware of

Hindustan Times  

In a toxic relationship, covert abuse can be a dangerous manipulation technique. Covert abuse, on the other hand, uses gaslighting and manipulation techniques that can leave us confused and invalidated. Recognising the signs of covert abuse and seeking support from trusted, supportive people or professionals is crucial for healing and breaking free from its effects," wrote Therapist Lucille Shackleton. Signs …

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Fox News ridiculed after 'bonkers' guest claims Taylor Swift is a covert asset
11 months, 1 week ago

Fox News ridiculed after 'bonkers' guest claims Taylor Swift is a covert asset

Raw Story  

Former FBI special agent Stuart Kaplan suggested on Fox News Tuesday evening that because pop star Taylor Swift posted a link to register voters, she may be some sort of covert asset. "In modern times, with these people having such influence and such, you know, immeasurable amount of followers, she can potentially singlehandedly swing voters because of just the amount …

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US military spacecraft takes off on yet another covert mission that should last for years
11 months, 3 weeks ago

US military spacecraft takes off on yet another covert mission that should last for years

Firstpost  

After more than two weeks of delays due to technical difficulties, the spacecraft launched at night on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center The X-37B spacecraft of the US military took off on a covert mission on Thursday that should last at least a few years. After more than two weeks of delays due to technical difficulties, …

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Ex-US ambassador Victor Rocha accused of acting as covert agent for Cuba
1 year ago

Ex-US ambassador Victor Rocha accused of acting as covert agent for Cuba

Al Jazeera  

Former ambassador to Bolivia charged for allegedly collaborating with Cuban intelligence services over several decades. The United States Department of Justice has charged a former US ambassador to Bolivia for allegedly working with Cuban intelligence services as an undercover agent for several decades. In court papers unsealed on Monday, the DOJ alleged that Victor Manuel Rocha had taken part in …

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The unexpected, covert birth of Haas: F1’s original, American team
1 year, 2 months ago

The unexpected, covert birth of Haas: F1’s original, American team

New York Times  

They call Formula One the “pinnacle of motorsports” for good reason. “I said, ‘Oh maybe I can speak with Joe then he speaks with Gene Haas.’ So I texted Joe, ‘Hey, if you have time, I got something to show you,’” Steiner said. “People sniffed around, but nobody really took it seriously,” Steiner said, adding that no one really knew …

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