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BOSTON—Superiors of the Massachusetts Air National Guard member charged with leaking highly classified military documents had raised concerns internally on multiple occasions about his handling or viewing of classified information, according to a court filing Wednesday. Justice Department lawyers made the disclosure in a court papers urging a magistrate judge to keep Jack Teixeira behind […]

A top U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official gave false information about COVID-19 vaccine safety to the agency’s vaccine advisory panel, and a spokesperson for the agency refused to correct the misinformation. Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office, presented on COVID-19 vaccine safety to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices […]

Lawmakers want more answers from the federal government after the military shot down the fourth unidentified object over U.S. airspace in just eight days.

Global fears of the Covid-19 pandemic are receding, but new concerns are rising over information tracking tools designed to combat the virus. A recent report uncovered how these technologies have helped expand governmental power to silence dissent and target minorities.

Twitter appeared to succumb to pressure from federal officials to moderate content around COVID-19, including blocking a post by a former Harvard scientist who offered critical feedback against COVID-19 vaccines in 2021, according to the latest installment of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files” posted Monday morning. Internal emails published by journalist David Zweig show that […]

Twitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 “misleading information” policy that had resulted in nearly 100,000 pieces of content being cut from the platform and led to more than 11,000 account suspensions. The social media giant, which was taken over by industrialist Elon Musk at the end of October, said in a report that, effective Nov. 23, […]

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday he cannot “be sure” whether Facebook is sending the agency user information without being compelled to do so, an act that would violate the law. Wray’s remark in response to a question from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) comes after Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released a report (pdf) in […]

Documents obtained through leaks, public documents, and an ongoing lawsuit show that government organizations may have been working with social media to silence parts of the American public. NTD spoke to a constitutional lawyer, who says the move is a clear violation of the first amendment.

The report has found that TikTok is partnering with hundreds of websites to gather information on visitors. and you don’t even need to have a TikTok account for it to be able to track you.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said on Friday it accidentally exposed but has since removed the confidential financial information of about 120,000 taxpayers. In a letter to Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Treasury Department acting Assistant Secretary for Management Anna Canfield Roth wrote that the IRS “recently identified an inadvertent and now-corrected disclosure of […]

Former Vice President Mike Pence said on Aug. 19 that, when he left office, he didn’t take with him any information that was classified. Pence made the remarks in an interview with The Associated Press, eleven days after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence to seize what an inventory list identified as […]

Imagine an information platform free of political censorship and degenerate content, like violence, drugs, and pornography. Enter, Ganjing World. The name comes from Chinese and means “Clean World.” Founded by Chinese dissidents who fled communist China, the company, which recently relocated from California to Middletown, New York, seeks to provide a new form of “clean” […]

A tattooed Asian male on Feb. 10 attacked two information booths in New York City’s Flushing, which were set up to raise awareness about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) long-running persecution of spiritual group Falun Gong. The incident, which echoes similar harassment campaigns targeting the group’s activities in the city and elsewhere, is believed to […]

BEIJING—The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said on Thursday it had summoned and fined social media company Douban over unlawful release of information, as Beijing steps up efforts to control and “clean up” the internet space. The internet watchdog said in a statement that Beijing authorities fined Douban’s operating entity 1.5 million yuan ($235,000) and […]

President Joe Biden’s administration is withholding information about Afghanistan, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko said during a speech on Friday. As an example, Sopko said, the Department of Defense (DoD) withheld information on the performance of Afghan security forces, including unit strength, training deficiencies, and casualty data, or, “in essence, nearly all […]

A deadly and highly infectious disease has surfaced in at least three Chinese provinces. It’s called anthrax. This month marks China’s first human death case linked to the disease in 10 years, based on official figures.

The State Department announced Thursday it will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of foreign actors who launch cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Tipsters will be able to contact the State Department’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program through a secure channel on the Tor browser, the department announced in a […]