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| January 2025 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
Expected time for 'specific actions' by the newly elected president, as suggested by Nikolai Patrushev.
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| 2024 | CFFPD played a key role in organizing panda diplomacy efforts in San Francisco. |
| 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 11 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
Nikolai Patrushev, an aide to Putin, made a public statement suggesting potential obligations and actions by Donald Trump following his election, while alluding to historical presidential assassination attempts.
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| November 7 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
Russia-1, a Russian state TV network, broadcast nude images of Melania Trump on a political talk show hosted by Yevgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva.
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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 2024 |
Vatnik Soup
Vatnik Soup was published as a book, compiling the extensive collection of disinformation actor profiles.
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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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| 2023 | Cybersecurity researchers discovered that CNS had established sock puppet accounts on Twitter for influence operations in Latin America. |
| 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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| August 2023 | Yang Wanming, former Chinese Ambassador to Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, and former deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Work Office, begins serving as Chair of the Association. |
| 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. |
| July 13 2023 |
NAFO
Kamil Dyszewski, representing NAFO, was presented with the Star of Lithuanian Diplomacy award by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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| July 8 2023 |
NAFO
NAFO held their first summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, with approximately 200 in-person attendees and thousands online. The event was officially inaugurated by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas joining via video call.
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| 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. |
| May 20 2023 |
NAFO
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda publicly promoted NAFO's first summit in Vilnius and encouraged attendance.
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| March 2023 |
NAFO
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the country's official fundraising platform United24 recognized NAFO for its support.
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| 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. |
| August 2022 |
NAFO
NAFO raised funds for Signmyrocket.com, allowing people to write custom messages on Ukrainian artillery shells, including a notable 2S7 Pion self-propelled artillery with the inscription 'Super Bonker 9000'.
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| August 2022 |
NAFO
The Economist published an analysis characterizing NAFO as a 'remarkably successful form of information warfare', highlighting the group's impact in countering Russian propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine.
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| August 30 2022 |
NAFO
Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov temporarily changed his Twitter avatar to a Fella commissioned in his honor.
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| August 28 2022 |
NAFO
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine officially tweeted appreciation for NAFO, sharing an image of missiles and a 'Fella' in a combat uniform.
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| July 2022 | The U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center issued a warning notice to state and local leaders, highlighting the CPAFFC as an organization tasked with co-opting subnational governments and potentially exploiting sister city agreements to advance its agendas. |
| June 2022 |
NAFO
NAFO gained mainstream prominence after a notable Twitter interaction between Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov and NAFO accounts with cartoon dog avatars, where they challenged his claims about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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| May 24 2022 |
NAFO
NAFO was officially founded with a tweet by Kamil Dyszewski, who had been creating modified Shiba Inu 'Fella' images related to Ukraine since early May 2022.
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| 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'. |
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles China News Service, NAFO (group), Block of Wikipedia in Turkey, Gig economy, United Front Work Department, Cyber and Information Domain Service, Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections, Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Vatnik Soup & Roskomnadzor, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.