In a welcome development last year, TikTok announced that it would start publishing insights about the covert influence operations it identifies and removes from its platform globally in its quarterly community guidelines enforcement reports. Since …
Planet A Climate change is likely to worsen armed conflict in fragile and war-torn states, warns a new report from the International Monetary Fund. While climate shocks don’t cause conflict directly, the report found that …
The Chinese Communist Party has a long history of engagement with criminal organisations and proxies to achieve its strategic objectives. This article provides new evidence of the development of a CCP-linked influence-for-hire industry operating in Southeast …
Anyone watching some of the recent testimony of the technology companies appearing before Australia’s Senate Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media could be forgiven for thinking Australians and our public discourse are not …
Last week, the US Department of Justice unsealed a significant criminal complaint. Police officers from China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) were charged with creating ‘thousands of fake online personas on social media sites, including …
