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State-linked and proxy campaigns seeding or amplifying political narratives in another country's domestic debate.
X suspended more than 13,000 accounts it ties to Iranian, Russian and Chinese influence operations before the Nov. 3 midterms. SC Media reported that X did not provide specific evidence for the attributions.
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Memphis City Council voted 7-5 to put off a data center moratorium until Oct. 20. For anyone financing the buildout that is a dated permitting risk, and Washington's China explanation does little to remove it.
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A classified assessment completed last year found that no foreign adversary successfully interfered in 2024, and that Russia, Iran and China each ran influence campaigns anyway. Congressional sources say the probing of election systems has not stopped.
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Polling cited by Wired puts opposition to a data center nearby at 75 percent, up from 42 percent a year ago, which turns community consent into a scheduling problem that the China-bot story cannot touch.
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Cipher AI's first month of data separates covert Russian content-farm seeding, laundered through Canadian accounts, from overt American influencer promotion. The defences are not the same.
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