foreign interference

The communist Chinese government allegedly sought to find and pay U.S. journalists to report negatively about President Donald Trump in 2019 to sway the 2020 presidential election, according to a declassified CIA note.

Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots organization, is calling for Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) to veto a bill that fails to close loopholes regarding indirect foreign funding to ballot initiatives.

Three days after the release of a bombshell report that accused some lawmakers of “wittingly assisting foreign state actors” in their efforts to control domestic politics, the Canadian government has offered no firm answer on whether politicians who acted as agents of foreign powers would be permitted to run for office again or not.

Two leaked intelligence reports suggest that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have known about allegations of Chinese interference in Canadian elections, despite insisting he did not.

Opposition parties in Canada have demanded an inquiry into Chinese influence in Canadian elections after allegations the Communist Party may have helped Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau denied seeing an alleged report on candidates in the federal election receiving money from the Communist Party.

Trudeau was informed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was directly funding at least eleven candidates in the 2019 election, claim states.

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has threatened to block a free trade deal with Britain should the UK scrap some sections of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a controversial section of the Brexit agreement that has empowered the European Union to effectively divide the United Kingdom.

A bill being co-led by Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Mary Miller (R-IL) would place a five-year moratorium on foreign land purchases to protect “American sovereignty” from being “eroded.”

Singapore’s parliament passed a new law against foreign interference on Monday that empowers the city-state’s government to better control internet content, India’s News 18 reported Thursday.

The U.S. government’s intervention in foreign countries leaves behind “death” and “scars,” Cuban leader Miguel Marion Diaz-Canel Bermudez said on Thursday at the 76th session of the U.N. General Assembly.

Russia’s government on Friday praised Google and Apple for removing a “tactical voting app” designed by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s team ahead of the country’s legislative election.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed two pieces of legislation, one of which will ban Confucius Institutes in Florida, aimed to combat nefarious foreign influence and corporate espionage in the Sunshine State.

Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed that Russian interference in the U.S. election in 2016 is now “beyond a doubt” and that Moscow was likely involved in the Brexit vote, too.

Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who emerged Tuesday as a top bidder for the Tribune Media Company, has also created a group called the Hub Project to influence U.S. elections, primarily through favorable media coverage for Democrats, the New York Times reports.

The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the organization charged with protecting the House Democrats’ majority, is using a perch he has on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) to spread disinformation to attack his political opponents in the Republican Party.

French president Emmanuel Macron has warned that Turkey’s government, led by Islamist president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will make attempts to interfere in next year’s presidential elections.

Ratcliffe may not sign a report to Congress if it doesn’t reflect a debate among intelligence analysts on China’s election influence efforts.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Thursday charged Melbourne resident and local Chinese community leader Duong Di Sanh with preparing to carry out a “foreign interference offense,” which carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison.

One of the key narratives from the Democrats and corporate media after the 2016 election was that “Russian interference,” in particular through the seeding of misinformation and propaganda on Facebook, had been a critical factor in President Trump’s victory.

British Conservative politicians including a former party leader have told Joe Biden to stop “lecturing” Britain on Brexit and worry about stopping the “killing and rioting” in the U.S.

(AFP) — Australia’s parliament is set to probe alleged foreign interference at public universities, a government minister said Monday, as concerns grow about Chinese influence.

Thursday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) expressed worry of President Donald Trump having “levers of power” after he was “very willing to take advantage” of foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election.

John Bolton says Trump asked China for help in his re-election. Others deny it. Regardless, Obama DID ask Russia for help in his re-election.

NBC News reporter Adele-Momoko Fraser thanked two foreign non-profit organizations for their “collaboration” in convincing Google to demonetize two American news websites, The Federalist and Zero Hedge, on Tuesday.

According to a recent report, social media accounts linked to a network in Iran posed as GOP midterm candidates on social media.

Merkel ally and candidate for president of the European Commission Manfred Weber has said that the EU should have “interfered” during the Brexit campaign.

In an article recently published by New York Magazine titled “Facebook Stopped Russia. Is That Enough?” the magazine looks into Facebook’s latest efforts to prevent election interference on its platform.