And so every regime invests in having student informers.
—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
Security services also rely on informers to tell them who might be using Starlink, and search internet and social media traffic for signs it has been used.
For months, the couple worked with the FBI as informants, with Katas even staging a raid by arranging a meeting with Bateman under the guise of filming.
—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
Shiwa Hassanpour, an activist with the human rights monitor Hengaw Organization, based in Iraq’s Kurdish region, said people have been shot for approaching the border, because Iranian forces suspect them of being spies or informants.
The proverbial canaries in coal mines will then cause a recession.
—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2026
By crunching data from millions of monthly payroll records for workers in jobs with exposure to generative AI, the authors concluded that workers ages 22 to 25—the canaries—have seen about a 13 percent decline in employment since late 2022.
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