As French protests escalated, the X account Torche360 (@Torche360), on October 26, posted a video of a protester in Paris unfavorably comparing French police to the Israel Defense Forces. The account provides...
One day after Texans began voting in the 2026 midterm elections, a Russian AI deepfake surfaced, accusing a U.S. Senate candidate of sexually abusing a child. Private researchers named the culprit behind...
Earlier this month, Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford got a notice from X: her account was being blocked in Turkey. She asked the Turkish presidency why and has yet to get an answer. She isn’t the...
On October 5, the FBI arrested a 17-year-old from McKinney, Texas, who is accused of plotting to assassinate Republican US Representative Keith Self of Texas and carry out a terrorist attack in North Texas...
Seven self-described Western journalists, none of whom exist, have placed nearly 100 articles in online outlets since July 2025. On October 8, OpenAI disclosed that it had banned ChatGPT accounts originating...
Federal authorities in September charged defendants in three cases alleging support for the Houthis and Hamas. The cases accuse a Department of Energy engineer of attempting to aid the Houthis and two...
Iran is reading American service members’ social media feeds to deadly effect. The fact is that not all intelligence must be gleaned from secret, closed sources for it to be effective, and Tehran...
The once-fringe bid for American reindustrialization now is a national consensus. Everyone from President Donad Trump to Gov. Josh Shapiro agrees the United States needs to get back into the business of...
Long after COVID-19 ended, China is still trying to shape the world’s perception of the pandemic. On August 6, FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) identified at least 50 coordinated...
Over the last two weeks of July, anti-Taliban resistance groups conducted sustained operations in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, resulting in the Taliban losing control of its first district...
“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they’ve tried everything else,” goes an aphorism often apocryphally attributed to Winston Churchill. Much the same can be said for...
On May 5, the Syrian Ministry of Interior and the General Intelligence Directorate announced that security forces thwarted a major terrorist attack aiming to destabilize the country. In a series...
Iranians are increasingly leaving their country to escape the regime’s internet shutdown. At the same time, in Russia, the Kremlin’s tightening grip on online life is fueling growing...
Hamas member Muhammad Saleh al Bardawil founded Al Khair Challenge, a Gaza-based charity that remains active and continues to solicit donations, FDD’s Long War Journal has found. The US Treasury...