“Americans don’t need Russia’s polarizing influence operations. They are plenty good enough at dividing themselves,” writes the Atlantic’s national security reporter, arguing that “the new face of Russian propaganda” is just a carefully-curated selection of inflammatory content made by Americans themselves. Citing the Mueller investigation, the article notes the irony that America’s two front-runners for the presidency are now “both candidates…
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Fake News Hoax in Russia Tries Blaming the US For Coronavirus
“Russia’s intelligence services are apparently behind a well-coordinated social media campaign to blame the U.S. for creating and unleashing the Wuhan coronavirus on the world,” reports the International Business Times. That conclusion comes from the Atlantic Council think tank (founded in 1961), which established its Digital Forensic Research Lab in 2016. Eto Buziashvili, an analyst at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic…
A Russian Satellite Appears To Be Shadowing an American Spy Satellite
“A Russian satellite has positioned itself uncomfortably close to an American spy satellite in orbit around Earth…” reports the Verge, adding that the Russian satellite “has been in constant view of its U.S. target for nearly two weeks now.” An anonymous reader quotes The Drive: Russia has a number of what it calls “space apparatus inspectors” in orbit, which the U.S….
New Russian ‘Sovereign Internet’ Law Gives Government Sweeping Power Over Internet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: A Russian law has taken effect that, in theory, would allow the Russian government to cut off the country’s Internet from the rest of the world. The “sovereign Internet law,” as the government calls it, greatly enhances the Kremlin’s control over the Web. It was passed earlier this year and allows Russia’s government…
Russia bestows medal on US astronaut in failed launch
Russia has decorated NASA astronaut Nick Hague, who survived an aborted space launch last year, with one of its highest honours, the Order of Courage, a Kremlin decree said on Tuesday. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-russia-bestows-medal-astronaut.html…
Putin Could Decide For the World On CRISPR Babies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: According to Bloomberg, top Russian geneticists held a “secret meeting” this summer with government health officials in Moscow to debate a bid by a scientist there, Denis Rebrikov, to create babies genetically modified with the gene-editing technology CRISPR. The first such children were born in China last year as part of…
Russia Carried Out a ‘Stunning’ Breach of FBI Communications System, Escalating the Spy Game on US Soil
Zach Dorfman, Jenna McLaughlin, and Sean D. Naylor, reporting for Yahoo News: On Dec. 29, 2016, the Obama administration announced that it was giving nearly three dozen Russian diplomats just 72 hours to leave the United States and was seizing two rural East Coast estates owned by the Russian government. As the Russians burned papers and scrambled to pack their bags,…