Australia probe foreign influence efforts through social media platforms

On Thursday, Australia started an investigation into the potential usage of foreign influence using social media platforms such as WeChat, Facebook, and Twitter. The development comes in the wake of heightened concerns in the country that China is seeking to cast its influence in Canberra’s affairs. In the past, Russia had used social media to…

Huawei helped North Korea in building its wireless network: Washington Post

The report adds to the growing number of supporting documents to U.S. claims that China’s Huawei has violated in multiple instances US export control rules. According to a report from the Washington Post citing sources and internal documents, China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has secretly helped North Korea to build and maintain its commercial wireless…

Cambridge Analytica’s data practice puts Facebook in a spot

It is very likely that the way social media giants, including Facebook, collect and use user data is going to be scrutinized under a microscope. British privacy regulators are now zeroing in on the offices of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica with a search warrant following reports that the company may have improperly gained access…

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft confirm Russian involvement in 2016 U.S Presidential election campaign

U.S. investigators are gradually piecing together how the Kremlin orchestrated its disinformation campaign using U.S. platforms to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign. As per a person briefed on Google’s probe on Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. elections, Google has discovered that Russian agents had spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads on…

U.S. Security Agencies have proof of Russians influencing U.S. Presidential elections 2016

A leaked “Top Secret Signals Intelligence” classified report could make or break Trump’s presidency. Although the CIA, FBI and U.S. President Barrack Obama are all on the same page which clearly states that Russia hacked the DNC and influenced the results of the US. Presidential elections of 2016, President-elect Donald Trump who has emerged as…