Akshay Singh

Tracking Terrorist Financing: A Series on Al-Shabaab Group Profile

🗞💸If you want to know how Al Shabaab has managed to sustain its operations for decades, have a read of our series on the group's financing, a key contributor to their longevity:

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Canadian Military Members Arrested on Anti-Government Terrorism Charges Serving military members arrested for terrorist activity facilitation (ideologically-motivated)

🚨🗞Today's Insight Monitor is out, and it's a look at the disrupted terrorism plot in Canada involving anti-government extremism and serving Canadian Armed Forces members. Have a read!

🔓This, and the linked articles, are all free to read.

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CSIS issues espionage alert about suspect seeking sensitive information for Chinese intelligence - National | Globalnews.ca The Canadian Security Intelligence Service confirmed it had sent an 'espionage advisory' to federal departments and universities.

"an espionage advisory was shared with certain federal departments and universities regarding a person who is attempting to obtain sensitive and privileged Canadian information on behalf of the People’s Republic of China intelligence services"

globalnews.ca/news/1127420...

Security services still sharing data with US despite concerns - DutchNews.nl Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD are continuing to share information with their American counterparts despite concerns about security, an investigation by the Volkskrant and Nieuwsuur has sho...

www.dutchnews.nl/2025/04/secu...

a map of canada showing the results of the 2021 election Alt: a god of a map of canada showing the results of every federal election

Best wishes and many thanks to all of the political candidates, politicos, poll workers, journalists and pollsters who help make our democracy work. #elxn45 #cdnpoli

www.canada.ca/en/privy-cou...

In this time of international strife and discord, I am glad that the Canada-Australia war has been averted. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🦘🦫https://www.canada.ca/en/food-inspection-agency/news/2025/04/statement-from-the-canadian-food-inspection-agency-on-vegemite.html

Survival Comes First - China Media Project A Gen Z content moderator working for a major Chinese internet platform reveals the moral contradictions of deleting sensitive political content while struggling to make ends meet. "We're just tools,"...

A Gen Z content moderator working for a major Chinese internet platform reveals the moral contradictions of deleting sensitive political content. Translation of this superb Mang Mang interview was by CMP in cooperation with ChinaFile and China Digital Times. chinamediaproject.org/2025/03/19/s...

YouTube video by Secure Line Terrorism Forecast 2025

The latest episode of Secure Line is out now! We talk with @colinpclarke.bsky.social about the global terrorism threat -- it's a real tour of geographic and ideological threats. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or on YouTube:

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Yesterday King Charles was inspecting a British ship.

And YET he did so dressed as King of Canada wearing Canadian military decorations and Canadian honours, inc Order of Canada and Canadian Order of Military Merit.

Charles is sending us and the world a message, a LOUD message.

OpenAI Uncovers Evidence of A.I.-Powered Chinese Surveillance Tool The company said a Chinese operation had built the tool to identify anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...

“OpenAI said on Friday that it had uncovered evidence that a Chinese security operation had built an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance tool to gather real-time reports about anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.”

www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...

Terrorism Threat Medium? Secure Line · Episode

🚨 New Secure Line Episode 🚨

Is terrorism in Canada getting worse, or are we just getting better at catching it? Our latest episode dives into the numbers.

@leahwest-nsl.bsky.social and I sit down with @stewglobal.bsky.social to talk all about terrorism in Canada!

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In a @doublethinklab.bsky.social report I co-authored, we interviewed overseas dissidents of the PRC, including Hong Kongers. Our participants identified 喝茶/drinking tea as being the most impactful TNR tactic.

Everyone is fearful of their loved ones being detained and questioned for their advocacy

Appreciate the support @germany.diplo.de. 🇩🇪🤝🇨🇦

Consequences of terrorist listings in Canada What this means for the Taliban AND ideologically-motivated violent extremists

Canada has agreed to list Mexican drug trafficking organizations as terrorists as part of our agreement to get the US to back off on the tariffs.

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a cartoon of a man holding a sign that says support canada ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a sign that says support canada

Look, I don't want to pretend that Americans actively care what Canadians think, but I'm genuinely taken aback to the extent to which very smart & calm people I know are saying the bilateral relationship is over. I don't think it's *over* but the idea of the US as a reliable ally is basically gone.

China's Fastest-Growing App - China Media Project With all eyes on TikTok’s trials and tribulations in the US, the fact that its parent company, ByteDance, has a white-hot new app back in China is easy to overlook. China’s regulators haven’t.

With all eyes on TikTok’s trials and tribulations in the US, the fact that its parent company, ByteDance, has a white-hot new app back in China is easy to overlook. China’s regulators haven’t.

How Xiaohongshu Censors "Sudden Incidents" A leaked internal document from Xiaohongshu reveals how the Instagram-like social media and e-commerce company deals with censoring discourse about  “sudden incidents” on its platform. The document is...

"RedNote's internal [...] censorship apparatus identifies discourse about 'Societal incidents that could trigger political or social unrest and threaten national security.'"
chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/07/how-...

I think this is an essential course. As someone who has dealt with a fair number of reporters, I'm continually surprised by how little resources there are on how to deal with trauma within the field of journalism

Thailand must immediately halt deportation of 48 Uyghurs to China: UN experts GENEVA – The Government of Thailand must immediately halt the possible transfer of 48 Uyghurs to the People’s Republic of China, UN experts* said today, warning that the group was at real risk of tort...

#Thailand must immediately halt deportation of 48 #Uyghurs to #China: UN experts.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

This video from the Canadian embassy in Washington is, um, a flex.

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Assad has stepped down? Ah yes, the same way I declined to publish in Science.

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

“At least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of countries have been impacted this week by what a top White House official called a Chinese hacking campaign that has also raised concerns about the security of text messaging.”

A great reminder: avoid SMS.

Trudeau says 'credible allegations' Indian government involved in slaying of Sikh leader in B.C., ex... Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says national security agencies are investigating "credible allegations" that the "agents of the government of India" were involved in the killing of prominent Canadian S...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says national security agencies are investigating "credible allegations" that the "agents of the government of India" were involved in the killing of prominent Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in B.C. in June.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/tru...

Terrorist Financing Analysis Course — Insight Threat Intelligence Terrorists need money to finance their activities and operations, and researchers, investigators, and analysts need up to date information and frameworks to detect and disrupt this activity.

If you’re interested in learning more about terrorist financing, this course is for you! And don’t delay - price goes up September 1st!

Two US Navy sailors were arrested yday for allegedly giving sensitive US military info to China—including info on opsec at a naval base, a Navy exercise (including location/timing of force movements), locations of ships, a weapons control systems manual, per DOJ/court docs...

Canada's first "foreign interference" arrest (But it's really a Security of Information Act arrest...)

🚨🗞Today's Insight Intelligence is out, and it's a look at Canada's "first foreign interference arrest". But is it really? We look at the facts of the case (so far), and more importantly, the global context. This is going to be a case to watch👀