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

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 …

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 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 …

Is the post office spying on you? USPS “covert operations” may monitor social media posts

A division of the U.S. "Analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service Internet Covert Operations Program monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on March 20, 2021," said a March 16 government bulletin marked as "law enforcement sensitive" and distributed by the Department of Homeland Security. Post Office Redacted by Yahoo News Civil liberties experts expressed …

Yatish Yadav’s new book ‘RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations’ offers a peek into the exploits of Indian spymasters

Journalist and author Yatish Yadav’s new book RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations is a window into the heroic covert operations carried by India’s external spy agency Research and Analysis Wing. The book will give a detailed account of real spies and reveals hitherto unknown aspects of their life, trauma and temptation, triumphs and setbacks in executing each of …