China is behind the largest known covert propaganda operation ever identified on Facebook and Instagram, according to a new report by security researchers at Meta. Meta on Tuesday outed the authors of a four-year long influence campaign dubbed “Spamouflage Dragon,” which first appeared in 2019 to spread propaganda about Hong …
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In a network of state-sponsored hackers from China, hackers linked to Beijing breached the emails of U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, the Wall Street Journal first reported. The email account of Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of State for East Asia, was also accessed by hackers, people familiar with …
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Raunch-coms live or die by their ability to make you go “Oh my god!” or “Ewwww!” or do a spit-take that spews popcorn over whoever is unlucky enough to be sitting in front of you. So you can give it up for Joy Ride, director Adele Lim‘s variation on the …
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Midway through a sword fight in an upcoming episode of Max‘s period action drama Warrior, one of the combatants loses her blade and seems on the verge of death at the hands of the man she wants revenge against. He’s so confident in his abilities, though, that he invites her …
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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued his right-wing media tour on Wednesday with an appearance on Newsmax, during which he claimed that the Chinese government is developing race-based biological weapons. “We know that the Chinese are developing ethnic bio-weapons. Bio-weapons that are designed to attack people of certain …
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In 1984 a promising director named Joe Dante unleashed Gremlins. It was a horror-comedy that played like a polished-up version of something he might have worked on for his mentor, B-movie king Roger Corman, who shepherded Dante’s first solo feature, Piranha, in 1978. Dante already had The Howling to his …
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Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan plays a fairly minor role in the Disney+ family series American Born Chinese. But there may be no more important character to convey what the show is trying to do, and how well it succeeds at most of it. Chinese is a complicated mix of …
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“Did anyone order a Chinese?” In a video that now has 5.2 million views TikTok, British food and fashion creator Charly Anne simply plates up her dinner for the night. “I got a Chinese tonight. I’ve been craving a Chinese for so long and I thought we could dish it …
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Calls to protest George Soros and refugees. Far-right Twitter screeds about immigrants. New Europe Observation sounds like a far-right extremely online news outlet. But it’s actually a front group for a Chinese propaganda network that’s borrowing tactics from Russia’s infamous 2016 troll farm. Social media giant Meta announced on Wednesday …
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As TikTok works to convince Congress to drop efforts to ban the app nationwide, the company has reportedly recruited Democratic and Republican power players, including former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, to help coach CEO Shou Zi Chew. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, TikTok has enlisted …
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