Polygraph
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Naftali Bennett
Israeli prime minister
“This tool and similar tools are very important tools in the fight against terrorism and in the fight against serious crime, but they are not intended for widespread ‘phishing’ among Israeli citizens or public figures in the country.”
Read more...Israeli-made Pegasus spyware has been used globally by repressive states to crackdown on dissent. A new expose reveals its abuse inside Israel. -
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Zhao Lijian
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman
“With regard to what you mentioned about cyberattack, China firmly opposes and combats all forms of cyberattacks. It will never encourage, support or condone cyberattacks.”
Read more...Though a perfect fingerprint is hard to come by in clandestine cyber-operations, Beijing has repeatedly been linked to malicious online activity. -
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Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin
China and Russia presidents
"Russia and China insist that the United States, as the only state party to the Convention that has not completed the process of destroying chemical weapons, accelerate the elimination of its chemical weapons stockpiles."
Read more...Russia allegedly used a nerve agent against dissident Alexey Navalny; China has restricted information scientists want about the pandemic origins in Wuhan. -
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MK.ru
Website of Moskovsky Komsomolets, a major Russian newspaper
“Residents of Donetsk reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces began a massive artillery shelling of the city. Volleys are produced from various types of weapons.”
Read more...No evidence was provided, and independent monitoring mission reports from that day don’t mention 'massive' shelling. -
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Russian Federation
Social media account of the Russian mission to the OSCE
“We call on the @OSCE_RfoM to assess the situation around RT DE and to remind Berlin of necessity to fulfill its obligations on freedom of the media and access to information.”
Read more...The German service of the Russian-state owned broadcaster RT was barred for not having a license. It’s Russia that routinely censors foreign and domestic media. -
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Chinese Foreign Ministry
“Both parties [China and Russia] unanimously agreed to … jointly oppose attempts to politicize sports and stand together to support the success of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.”
Read more...China handed the Olympic torch to the Army officer who led bloody clashes with India, then issued a political statement with Russia as the games began. -
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Notis Mitarachi
Greek minister of Migration and Asylum
“The deaths of 12 migrants on the Turkish border near Ipsala is a tragedy. Any suggestion that they were pushed back into Turkey is patently false.”
Read more...Human rights groups, media reports and refugees say Greece is systematically pushing back refugees who cross its borders. -
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Qin Gang
China’s ambassador to the U.S.
“Chinese people can have wide access to information on the internet.”
Read more...Sure there is ‘wide access’ to China’s internet – if you don’t count thousands of blocked sites and smothering censorship. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian president
“They say the policy of ‘open doors.’ Where did it come from? NATO has an ‘open doors’ policy? Where is it prescribed? Nowhere.”
Source: TASS, February 1, 2022Read more...NATO’s open-door policy is written in Article 10 of its founding document – the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949. -
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Russian Embassy in U.S.
Russian Foreign Ministry Twitter account
“FACT: It is the #USA that encouraged radical nationalist coup in #Kiev as a result of which the population of Crimea was threatened with extermination and voted for reunion with Russia.”
Read more...There was no “coup” in Kiev; in early 2014 the pro-Russian president fled ahead of an impeachment vote following months of protests. -
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Zhao Lijian
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson
“After 20 years’ war, this is what the US has brought to the children in Afghanistan.”
Read more...In actuality, the photos show the suffering inflicted by Bashar al-Assad’s regime on children in rebel-held areas of Syria. -
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Ghassan Khalil
Hasakah governorate, Syria
"What happened in al-Sina'a prison reveals an American attempt to recycle the [Islamic State] terror group, especially after local and international calls to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. This recycling serves to justify the presence of these troops in the area."
Read more...The terror group’s bloody attack on al-Sina’a prison shows how unstable Syria remains after years of civil war.
