U.S. intel says Russia conducting election disinformation campaigns
- 05-Nov-2024
The U.S. government’s intelligence groups said they have observed that Russia was conducting additional influence operations intended to undermine public confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divisions among Americans. “The IC (intelligence community) expects these activities will intensify through election day and in the coming weeks, and that foreign influence narratives will focus […]
US intelligence: Russia may stage video to create pretext for Ukraine war
- 04-Feb-2022
U.S. intelligence officials believe Russia has formed a plan to fabricate a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine, potentially by producing propaganda videos showing a staged attack, according to a senior Biden administration official. Russia is formulating several options to give it an excuse for an invasion of Ukraine, the official said. One is a […]
Lawsuit accuses Fox of concocting ‘fake news’ for Trump
- 02-Aug-2017
NEW YORK: Fox News contrived with a Donald Trump supporter and the White House to fabricate “fake news” to advance the president’s agenda and try to bury speculation that his campaign colluded with Russia, a lawsuit is claiming. The suit, filed at the US federal court house in Manhattan on Tuesday, is brought by Rod Wheeler, […]
Congress begins Russia hacking probe, Trump still sceptical of US intelligence
- 05-Jan-2017
WASHINGTON: Senior US intelligence officials will testify in Congress on Thursday on Russia’s alleged cyber attacks during the 2016 election campaign, even as President-elect Donald Trump casts doubt on intelligence agencies’ findings that Moscow orchestrated the hacks. The hearings come a day before Trump is due to be briefed by intelligence agency chiefs on hacks […]
Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence: sources
- 05-Oct-2016
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software programme to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by US intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified US government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest […]