Tag: disinformation

Pro-Beijing Disinformation Operation Targets Western Mining Firms

A pro-Beijing online influence campaign, known as Dragonbridge, has targeted major Australian, U.S., and Canadian rare earth miners who pose a threat to China’s dominance of supply chains for the precious resource. U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant has been tracking Dragonbridge since June 2019, revealing that the group comprised a network of “thousands of inauthentic accounts”…


Pro-Beijing Disinformation Operation Targets Western Rare Earth Mining Firms

A pro-Beijing online influence campaign, known as Dragonbridge, has targeted major Australian, U.S., and Canadian rare earth miners who pose a threat to China’s dominance of supply chains for the precious resource. U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant has been tracking Dragonbridge since June 2019, revealing that the group comprised a network of “thousands of inauthentic accounts”…


Pro-Beijing Disinformation Operators Target Australian, US Rare Earth Mining Firms

A pro-Beijing online influence campaign, known as Dragonbridge, has targeted major Australian, U.S., and Canadian rare earth miners who pose a threat to China’s dominance of supply chains for the precious resource. U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant has been tracking Dragonbridge since June 2019, revealing that the group comprised a network of “thousands of inauthentic accounts”…


Pro-Beijing Disinformation Operators Target Australian, US, Canadian Rare Earth Miners

A pro-Beijing online influence campaign, known as Dragonbridge, has targeted major Australian, U.S., and Canadian rare earth miners who pose a threat to China’s dominance of supply chains for the precious resource. U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant has been tracking Dragonbridge since June 2019, revealing that the group comprised a network of “thousands of inauthentic accounts”…


Vancouver Mayor Briefed on Foreign Interference by Intelligence Agency’s ‘Expert on China’ Ahead of Municipal Election

Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he was briefed by national intelligence officials on foreign interference ahead of the October municipal elections, with a senior official with Canadian Security and Intelligence Service who was “a subject expert on China” meeting with him and his co-chief of staff, according to the  Vancouver Sun. “They briefed me for almost…


Book Review: ‘Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less’

It’s easy to see why the legacy media has placed a target on Alex Epstein’s back: the “Fossil Future” author fights to win. In the weeks leading up to the release of his latest book, “The Washington Post” planned to attack Epstein by labeling him a bigot. When Epstein learned about it beforehand, he struck…


Conservative MP Won’t Support Adding ‘Health Misinformation’ to the Online Safety Bill

British politicians on the Committee debating the UK government’s proposed Online Safety Bill tried to add an amendment to include “health-related misinformation and disinformation” as a recognised form of lawful but “harmful” speech. On June 14, Conservative Minister Chris Philp said that the government would not support the amendment, though it agrees “with the intention behind the…


Peter Menzies: In Attempting to Curb ‘Misinformation and Disinformation,’ the Liberals Perpetuate Same

Commentary The Trudeau government has taken #fakenews, #alternativefacts, #misinformation, and #disinformation to a whole new, breathtaking level. This week, the Liberals introduced legislation that will freeze the buying, importing, and selling of handguns and pretended gun owners won’t be affected. You may agree or disagree with that approach, but what is clear is that if…


The Disinformation Governance Board and the War on Truth

Commentary What is truth? For many, I’m sure, that’s an easy question to answer. For philosophers, not so much. Plato firmly believed that truth was something to be uncovered, unearthed, and examined. An absolutist in the extreme, genuine knowledge, he argued, was attainable. Other prominent philosophers, however, vehemently disagreed. Truth, they said, was subjective and…


Biden’s Inflation Disinformation Desperation

“It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies,” said Arthur Calwell, the leader of the Australian Labor Party in the 1960s, who presided over three election defeats and thus knew what he was talking about. President Joe Biden, on the other hand, who shares with Calwell a penchant for taking…