Influence-Operations

Tenet Media Shuts Down, YouTube Terminates Channels, Blaze Media Fires Lauren Chen After DOJ Indictment Exposure

| Importance: 9/10

Tenet Media abruptly shut down on September 5, 2024, one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment revealing the company had received nearly $10 million in covert Russian funding. The shutdown triggered cascading actions: YouTube terminated Tenet Media and all Lauren Chen channels, …

Tenet Media Tayler Hansen Lauren Chen Tim Pool Dave Rubin +8 more tenet-media russian-funding company-shutdowns doj-indictment influence-operations +3 more
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DOJ Arrests Guo Wengui in Landmark $1 Billion Fraud Conspiracy

| Importance: 9/10

On March 15, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice arrested Ho Wan Kwok (Guo Wengui) in a landmark twelve-count federal indictment alleging a complex, multi-year fraud scheme defrauding thousands of victims of approximately $1 billion. The sophisticated conspiracy involved fraudulent investments …

Guo Wengui Ho Wan Kwok Kin Ming Je Department of Justice Steve Bannon +1 more financial-fraud money-laundering influence-operations international-crime investment-scam
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China Lobby Intensifies Campaign After Nationalist Retreat to Taiwan - Alfred Kohlberg Funds Propaganda

| Importance: 7/10

The Chinese Nationalist government relocates its capital to Taiwan on December 8, 1949, after Communist forces complete their victory in the Chinese Civil War, intensifying the “China Lobby’s” campaign to shape U.S. foreign policy in support of Chiang Kai-shek’s regime. The …

Alfred Kohlberg Chiang Kai-shek T.V. Soong Henry R. Luce Walter H. Judd +1 more foreign-lobbying propaganda cold-war anticommunism influence-operations
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