Simply put. A must-read piece on the Supreme Court's upcoming oral arguments on global human rights litigation in U.S. courts.
by the legendary Harold Hongju Koh, former State Department Legal Adviser, former Dean Yale Law School
Cisco’s Real Stakes: Digitally Aiding and Abetting Mass Atrocities
China leads the world in documented #transnationalrepression: 319 incidents since 2014 per Freedom House.
The Feb 2025 deportation of 40 #Uyghurs from Thailand reveals one method: economic leverage that turns neighbouring states into enforcers. No exiled community should assume it is out of reach:
SCOOP: Iran is using a Chinese satellite to obtain high resolution imagery of targets in the Middle East, from US bases, to civilian infrastructure such as power plants and desalination facilities
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Now there's no question China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. (Chuckles.) Good luck! (Laughter.) That's sort of like trying to nail jello to the wall. (Laughter.) But I would argue to you that their effort to do that just proves how real these changes are and how much they threaten the status quo. It's not an argument for slowing down the effort to bring China into the world, it's an argument for accelerating that effort. In the knowledge economy, economic innovation and political empowerment, whether anyone likes it or not, will inevitably go hand in hand.
AL Is Bound to Subvert Communism China seeks to control it, but the idea of freedom is baked into its training on all human knowledge. By Cameron Berg April 13, 2026 at 11:50 am ET
Bill Clinton, 2000. WSJ, 2026.
In a Q&A with @methorley.bsky.social, the UK-China “Golden Era” is revisited: how financial interests and pro-engagement elites drove closer ties with Beijing in the 2010s, sidelining security concerns until a later political backlash. www.thewirechina.com/2026/04/12/m...
15.23 EDT Orbán concedes election to Tisza’s Magyar That’s it. Viktor Orbán is now speaking at Fidesz’s election night and he says the election result is “clear” as he concedes defeat. He says he congratulated the winning party and admits the result is painful for Fidesz.
Orbán concedes election to Tisza’s #Magyar
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Bottom line from the EEAS for #Tibetan #FIMI researchers:
#Tibet is a documented, sustained target of #AI-enhanced PRC state information operations. The EU's own foreign affairs service is now saying so publicly.
(& for Bluesky: #Spamouflage is on #Bluesky.)
CNN: US intelligence indicates that China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within the next few weeks, according to three people familiar with recent intelligence assessments.
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Tibet's story is under attack — digitally.
#TransnationalRepression x Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour ( #disinformation ) are targeting #Tibetan voices & networks.
@tenam.bsky.social Call to Action is essential reading:
phayul.com/opinion-the-... #spamouflage
High five to everyone who has suffered from anxiety, burnout, and depression without even once stealing 0-days from their employer and selling them to the Russians. www.zetter-zeroday.com/trenchant-ex...
NEW REPORT: “Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech”
Our research confirms that ad-based surveillance tech Webloc is used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies across the globe.
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The Natto Team believes that understanding China’s cybersecurity strategy is essential for gaining clearer insight into cyber targeting originating from China.
www.nattothoughts.com/p/cybersecur...
Streaming app banner for the ITV/PBS Frontline documentary “Inside China: The Battle for Tibet,” showing the title on the left, a short description and “Watch Now” / “Add to List” buttons below, and a collage-style image on the right with cutup portraits of the 14th Dalai Lama and 11th Panchen Lama over a mountain backdrop.
Huge congratulations to Gesbeen Mohammad & the team behind 'Battle for #Tibet' 🏔️ — nominated for an #Emmy for Outstanding Hard News Report (Long Form) at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards
Watch here on Frontline (🇺🇸 ): www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Watch here on ITV (🇬🇧): www.itv.com/watch/inside...
I just think it's also important to, like, remember how, how bad it was like, as someone said to me recently, like, I don't know whether we'll call this trauma with a capital T or trauma with a lowercase t, but it definitely like it was to have everyone crying in the office all the time. People had so much anxiety that we would kind of like have to take turns working for. The last few months I was there to be like, All right, you can't handle Today. Today. I'm okay. I can handle today, but you might have to handle tomorrow for me, because I might not be able to handle tomorrow. Like, I've never seen such a thing. You know, one of our younger designers had asked, because it was their first job out of grad school. Like, is this what it's like in the private sector too? Because this is so terrible. And someone's response who worked in the private sector was that, no, like, I've been terrible places, like I've worked at Amazon, I've worked other places where they didn't care about us, but we never felt like our leadership hated us just for existing. And that's what those months felt like, like, not our direct leadership, but anyone above that, and especially the highest levels, just hated us for existing, and that was really hard when, like our we had committed our careers to serving the citizens public.
Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse.
It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."
Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.
"Former gamers adapt very quickly to this technology. They are more effective than an ordinary serviceman." www.theguardian.com/world/202...
NEW: Trump aides gutted offices that aimed to counter anti-American disinformation by foreign powers. Now the US finds itself embattled in an info war with Iran, Russia and China. The State Dept. tells diplomats to use X and work with Pentagon psyops teams. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/b...
Striking graphic with a Chinese flag background and several CCTV cameras labeled #Hikvision and #Dahua around a large red “BANNED” stamp. Headline says, “India bans Chinese CCTV giants Hikvision and Dahua.” Smaller text says that from April 1 the companies will be barred from selling internet connected CCTV cameras in India as part of tighter security standards under MeitY’s Essential Requirements norms introduced in April 2024. (c) 2026 TibCERT Tech Update
via @tibcert.bsky.social
Striking graphic with a Chinese flag background and several CCTV cameras labeled #Hikvision and #Dahua around a large red “BANNED” stamp. Headline says, “India bans Chinese CCTV giants Hikvision and Dahua.” Smaller text says that from April 1 the companies will be barred from selling internet connected CCTV cameras in India as part of tighter security standards under MeitY’s Essential Requirements norms introduced in April 2024. (c) 2026 TibCERT Tech Update
via @tibcert.bsky.social
A sophisticated information war being waged online by pro-Iran actors - with a boost from Russia and China - is the subject of a new article from @nytimes.com featuring #Graphika.
Citizen Lab’s unique vantage point on #transnationalrepression comes from combining deep technical research on spyware and #surveillance with long-term engagement with targeted diaspora communities (initially #Tibetans), revealing both the methods *and* impacts of digital repression:
SCOOP: Someone has found new samples of the iPhone spyware DarkSword and published them on GitHub, putting millions of iOS users at risk.
A cybersecurity researcher told us that the leaked spyware is "way too easy to repurpose" and "we need to expect criminals and others to start deploying this."
Back from a few days in Brussels. Where it's fair to say officials, experts are somewhat peeved at foreign meddling in European information system. And social media platforms who allow it unchecked.
Council of theEuropean UnionBrussels, 10 March 2026(OR. en)5136/26LIMITECORLX 12CFSP/PESC 19RELEX 11CYBER 6JAI 23FIN 10LEGISLATIVE ACTS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTSSubject: COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION implementing Regulation(EU) 2019/796 concerning restrictive measures against cyber-attacksthreatening the Union or its Member States Source: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-5136-2026-INIT/en/pdf
The EU has sanctioned #i-Soon and its founders: CEO Wu Haibo & COO Chen Cheng. i-Soon's clients included China's PLA, MSS, & MPS. Our @turquoiseroof.org Bulletin (2024) showed they used compromised #Tibetan exile inboxes to demo #surveillance tools to clients data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...
“The draft cybercrime law reflects President Xi Jinping’s broad efforts to restrict digital and physical spaces by allowing state security to expand and tighten social controls, including beyond borders."
- @yalkun.bsky.social, China researcher @hrw.org
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A smartphone screen displays the DeepZang app logo (a blue cartoon character icon) next to #Tibetan script reading “དབྱིན་ཟང་” and the word “DeepZang.” The background behind the phone is blurred with blue AI-themed graphics and the letters “AI.”
🚨 DeepZang launched in Lhasa on 15 March, 2026: a #Tibetan language AI built on DeepSeek's base model.
China's claiming it's the "world's first" Tibetan #LLM.
It's not. Here's the technical and political reality. 🧵
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Audrey Tang (left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, shares a dialogue on Civic AI with Buddhist monks and deep thinkers Geshe Thabkhe Lodroe (centre) and Geshe Lodoe Sangpo (right) in Dharamsala, India.
Understanding #CivicAl pillars metacognition, compassion & symbiosis ensures we realise a more moral society — together!🙌
Blessings to my deep-thinking cohorts for the Dharamsala Dialogue.🙏
▶️ sayit.archive.tw/2026-03-13-a...
▶️ civic.ai
▶️ civic.ai/conference/
#LLAP🖖
Honestly this panel alone made my day, so I'm really happy to be learning something new (for a threats nerd like myself) on LLM poisoning, and while it's pretty disconnected cause it's different speakers, gave me much much food for thought.
🧵 The EU's foreign affairs service just published its 4th annual report on foreign information manipulation. #FIMI
It identifies China's #Spamouflage network as active here on #Bluesky (大家好!) It touches on the targeting of #Tibetans. A thread on what it says:
