Crime

Kids Using TikTok at Risk of Being Abused by Pedophiles

In a matter of just a few years, TikTok has become one of the fastest-growing and most popular mobile apps in the world. However, its popularity has also made it a target of pedophiles, who often use the platform to get in touch with its younger users. Pedophile dangers on TikTok “TikTok is a social ...

Armin Auctor

The TikTok logo.

Bloomberg’s Lawyers Threaten Reporter and Family

Journalists often receive threats for criticizing authoritarian regimes and leaders. Michael Forsythe is one such journalist from Bloomberg who took on the most famous authoritarian leader on the planet right now — Chinese President Xi Jinping. The article triggered a backlash and his wife, Leta Hong Fincher, started receiving threats for his exposé. The threats ...

Jack Roberts

Ex-Bloomberg reporter Michael Forsythe.

The Boy Scouts of America Files for Bankruptcy

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The organization has been caught up in several sexual abuse claims and has suffered losses as part of providing compensation to the victims. BSA is one of the largest youth organizations in the U.S. Bankruptcy “The national organization of the Boy Scouts ...

Jack Roberts

A group of boy scouts.

The Murder of the Musician Yu Zhou

Before the Summer Olympics of 2008, China arrested numerous Falun Gong practitioners across the country. Many of them ended up dead just days or even hours after their arrest. One person who died in this campaign by the Chinese government was singer and musician Yu Zhou. The death “A linguist who was fluent in several ...

Jessica Kneipp

The 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.

Stealing American Data: 4 Chinese Military Personnel Charged

The U.S. Justice Department recently announced that it has charged four Chinese citizens, suspected of working for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), with stealing the personal data of millions of Americans. The hacking took place in 2017 when the criminals breached the servers of credit reporting agency Equifax and stole private data like the names, social ...

Jack Roberts

Equifax.

U.S. Charges Huawei With Theft of Trade Secrets

The United States government has charged Chinese tech company Huawei and its subsidiaries with violating anti-racketeering laws and conspiring to steal trade secrets from American companies. They apparently stole IPs from six U.S. firms, involving products like robot testing technology, Internet routers, and antennas. Theft campaign “Prosecutors said the company used various means of ‘fraud ...

Jack Roberts

Huawei logo.

Taking Money From China: Harvard University Professor Arrested

Federal authorities have arrested a Harvard University professor after it came to light that he was secretly receiving payments from the Chinese government for research and had lied about his links to a Chinese-run recruitment program called the “Thousand Talents Program.” The individual, Charles Lieber, is chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology ...

Jack Roberts

Harvard University campus.

Germany: Raids on People Suspected of Being Chinese Spies

Germany recently raided the homes and offices of three individuals who are suspected of being Chinese spies. No one has been arrested as of yet, although two of the suspects passed on information to China while the third did not actually pass on anything. Chinese spies? “One of the three suspects was a German national ...

Jack Roberts

American Military Defrauded Into Buying Chinese Equipment

A U.S. military contractor has been charged with duping the American government into buying thousands of dollars worth of equipment, claiming it to be manufactured in the United States, when in reality it was produced in China. The contractor, Arthur Morgan, is the founder and CEO of the Surveillance Equipment Group (SEG) based in Virginia. ...

Jack Roberts

An American military drill.

Massacre of Innocents: Philippine Court Finds Clan Members Guilty

In 2009, the Philippines saw the most brutal massacre in modern times in the country as 58 people were killed in the southern province of Maguindanao. Killings were organized by members of the powerful Ampatuan clan. Ten years later, a court has found five members of the clan responsible for mass murder. Found guilty of ...

Max Lu

A member of the Ampatuan clan.