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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 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
Artem Klyushin, previously investigated for Russian interference in the 2016 election, publicly listed recommendations for Trump's second administration cabinet on social media, with several of his suggested nominees subsequently being selected.
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| 2024 |
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
Aleksandr Dugin celebrated Trump's re-election, claiming that 'Putinism' has triumphed in the United States and advocating for Russian victory in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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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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| December 2024 |
2024 Tenet Media investigation
Charges against the Russian media executives were dropped with no convictions, leading to the shutdown of Tenet Media.
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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 5 2024 |
2024 Tenet Media investigation
Tenet Media influencer Tayler Hansen announced the company had shut down following the federal indictment and YouTube's termination of Tenet Media and related channels.
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| September 4 2024 |
2024 Tenet Media investigation
Two Russian nationals were federally indicted by the Department of Justice for alleged activities related to Tenet Media, including failing to register as foreign agents and funneling approximately $10 million into the company to distribute content with hidden Russian government messaging.
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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 |
2024 Tenet Media investigation
Tenet requested its influencers to produce content blaming the Crocus City Hall attack on Ukraine and the U.S., according to the Department of Justice indictment.
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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 |
2024 Tenet Media investigation
By fall 2023, Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva were involved in day-to-day operations of Tenet Media, using false names to conceal their identities as Russian RT employees.
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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 |
2024 Tenet Media investigation
Tenet Media attempted to hire two right-wing YouTube commentators with 2.4 million and 1.3 million subscribers, offering each over $400,000 per month to produce political videos.
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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 |
2024 Tenet Media investigation
Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan founded Tenet Media, a right-wing media company featuring six conservative commentators.
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| 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. |
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