Trump made at least $9.6 million from the Middle East while president

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-made-9-6-million-middle-east-income-while-president/

#TrumpMiddleEastIncome #PresidentialEarnings #EthicsInvestigation #ForeignInfluence #FinancialTransparency #ConflictOfInterest #Politics #News

🎉 In other news:

24 European Parliament lawmakers from the @TheProgressives, #Renew, @eppgroup, @ecrgroup and the @EP_GreensEFA asked Parliament President #RobertaMetsola to suspend #advertising campaigns run through #Google’s parent company #Alphabet and on #YouTube over fears they could be sponsoring Russian #propaganda. They also urged to reallocate the EP’s advertising budgets to “trustworthy" ads methods (think: #TrackingFreeAds).

#TrackingAds #SurveillanceAds #privacy #ForeignInfluence

France: Riots enter digital bill discussions on how to curb hate speech https://www.euractiv.com/section/platforms/news/france-riots-enter-digital-bill-discussions-on-how-to-curb-hate-speech/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #deathofNahelM #democracydestabilisation #foreigninfluence

France: Riots enter digital bill discussions on how to curb hate speech https://www.euractiv.com/section/platforms/news/france-riots-enter-digital-bill-discussions-on-how-to-curb-hate-speech/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #deathofNahelM #democracydestabilisation #foreigninfluence

Per bird site:

Brian Stelter @brianstelter
10m
Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, effective immediately. This is an earth-shaking moment in cable news.

#FoxNews #treason #propaganda #ForeignInfluence #disinformation

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Following the DFRLab’s initial investigation, NPR confirmed on April 21 that Twitter had made the deliberate decision to stop filtering government accounts in Russia, China, and Iran. That same day, Reuters reported that Twitter had removed its state media labels from their accounts as well.
#propaganda #ForeignInfluence #StateMedia
https://dfrlab.org/2023/04/21/state-controlled-media-experience-sudden-twitter-gains-after-unannounced-platform-policy-change/

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State-controlled media experience sudden Twitter gains after unannounced platform policy change

Multiple Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media outlets on Twitter simultaneously began to gain followers after months of decline or stagnation, the DFRLab has discovered. A DFRLab assessment suggests that Twitter changed its algorithms regarding these accounts around March 29, 2023.
#propaganda #ForeignInfluence #StateMedia

"***As far as we know***, no foreign government has set up a network of super PACs and 501(c)(4) organizations to funnel untraceable billions into an election or a debate over legislation. But if they tried, it probably wouldn’t be too hard. That’s precisely as Republicans intended."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/06/billionaires-dark-money-spending/

#Republicans #GOP #DarkMoney #Corruption #ForeignInfluence #USPolitics #USA

#foreigninfluence https://globalnews.ca/news/9570437/liberal-mp-han-dong-secretly-advised-chinese-diplomat-in-2021-to-delay-freeing-two-michaels-sources/

FYI: NEWSBREAK IS A CHINESE PROPAGANDA ARM, founded and funded by the Chinese. It posts some real stories and a lot of conspiracy theories and completely made up stuff. It leans left, generally, but watch out when election time approaches. it has 26 million followers. The PRC will be trying to influence our votes, particularly on the left. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/news-break/

#election #chinesepropaganda #newsbreak #foreigninfluence

There's a throughline with these #corrupt #Republicans #foreigninfluence #darkmoney #moneylaundering

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2022/12/musk-has-reduced-twitters-ability-spot-foreign-disinformation-former-data-scientist-says/381185/ #Twitter #Foreigninfluence and truly, I wonder domestically with what children (13+? Or is Twitter 18+? experience. I actually do not know a lot with this, curious about as it impacting adults, and children? #Freespeech and safety. ?

And they will stay dead until we purge the #RINOs. No #WEF no #WHO no #foreigninfluence no #GreenNewDeal no #DiedSuddenly #vaccine no #BidenCrimeFamilly corruption.

🇺🇸@AttorneyThomasRenz

#Facebook allowed a Moldovan oligarch with ties to the #Kremlin to run #ads on its platform urging protests against the country's pro-Western government—days after he was sanctioned by the US.

The ads featuring politician & convicted fraudster #IlanShor were ultimately removed by Facebook but not before they were seen millions of times in #Moldova, a small nation of about 2.6 million sandwiched between Romania and war-torn #Ukraine.

#ForeignInfluence #SanctionedOligarch
https://apnews.com/article/technology-politics-united-states-government-us-department-of-the-treasury-russia-6277b515a552c980c262c72731dccdbe

After helping prince’s rise, #Trump & #JaredKushner benefit from #Saudi funds

An investment fund overseen by Crown Prince #MohammedBinSalman is backing ventures that profit the fmr president & his snr adviser, raising questions of conflict

By Michael Kranish
#ForeignInfluence
#MBS
#Corruption
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/12/after-helping-princes-rise-trump-kushner-benefit-saudi-funds/

ING2’s new name will be the ‘special committee on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the #EuropeanUnion, including #disinformation, and the strengthening of integrity, transparency and accountability in the #EuropeanParliament

The special committee is expected to present its final report, focusing on its new tasks, for adoption in plenary by July 2023 at the latest.

#ForeignInfluence #Qatargate

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230210IPR74716/special-committee-on-foreign-interference-to-deal-with-corruption-allegations

https://twitter.com/mae_westside/status/1621919237156519937?s=12&t=AToyZ9KBKAjJmYG2k9qRlQ

#MoneyInPolitcs #Corruption #GOP #AOC #ForeignInfluence #Elections

Only strong-leaning Republicans followed Russian content. And new study finds “no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.”

#uspolitics #elections #foreigninfluence #commodon

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9

Russian #ForeignInfluence: #GOP operative convicted in scheme to funnel #Russian money into #Trump campaign https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/trump-campaign-jesse-benton-russia A former senior aide to Senate Minority Leader #MitchMcConnell and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was convicted Thursday after being found guilty of helping to funnel illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national into former President Trump's 2016 campaign.

I’ve raised some concerns here with #Elon #Musk relating to today’s #Twitterfiles - he must clarify apparently extremely dangerous current policy in relation to #Twitter changing engagement with governments in the event of foreign influence operations or a terrorist attack - it’s in the bird place but I encourage you to please take a look and consider sharing https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1606715583638241280?s=20&t=BoYbJHRbaVpdoeBCGA7DCQ (sorry updated) #propaganda #disinformation #foreigninfluence #insurrection #Russia @potemkinvillage