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🎯China tracked Hong Kong protesters with TikTok ‘god credential.’ CCP officials used the backdoor access to monitor key data linked to Hong Kong protesters and personal communications on TikTok. [more]
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🔸Feds Finally Arrest Insurrectionist ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Actor. Jay Johnston, an actor whose credits include TV work on Arrested Development, Bob’s Burgers, and Mr. Show, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with felony obstruction in connection to the Jan. 6 insurrection. [more]
🔸Meta vows to take action after report found Instagram’s algorithm promoted pedophilia content. Academics from Stanford's Internet Observatory and UMass's Rescue Lab were able to quickly find "large-scale communities promoting criminal sex abuse." [more]
🔸Cuba to Host Secret Chinese Spy Base Focusing on U.S. China and Cuba have reached a secret agreement for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island, in a brash new geopolitical challenge by Beijing to the U.S. [more]
🔸Lawmakers blast US plans to include Hong Kong's sanctioned leader at APEC summit. US Treasury said in 2020 Lee was involved in "coercing, arresting, detaining, or imprisoning individuals" under the authority of a Beijing-imposed national security law. [more]
🔸Catching Russia Sanctions Busters – From Orbit. Commercial satellite assets have begun to produce data that has become increasingly adept at mitigating the so-called dark ship problem. [more]
🔸Binance lawyers allege SEC Chair Gensler offered to serve as advisor to crypto company in 2019. Earlier this week, the SEC filed 13 charges against Binance, alleging the company failed to register as an exchange and broker-dealer. [more]
🔸All About the Deep-Pocketed Saudi Wealth Fund That Rocked Golf. Though the fund has long been an outsize presence in financial circles, the deal that stunned the golf world has turned a Klieg light on a Saudi business that has been described as one of the most opaque in the world. [more]
🔸It’s James Comer’s grit vs. Biden’s grift as family corruption scandal intrigue heats up. Director Christopher Wray has been thumbing his nose at congressional oversight in a way that demands reprimand, which is exactly what Comer is delivering. [more]
🔸Reward offered for man who sold criminals encrypted phones, unaware they were tracked by the FBI. The State Department posted the hefty reward for Maximilian Rivkin, who has escaped arrest since the 2021 takedown of the ANOM network. [more]
🔸US announces reward for information on Swedish national charged with drug trafficking. Rivkin was among 17 foreign nationals whom U.S. authorities indicted in 2021 over alleged links to distributing thousands of encrypted communication devices to criminal syndicates. [more]