NEW: I found two "news" websites active on X and other platforms—Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News—that are in fact U.S. government-operated anti-Iranian military propaganda mills. Both appear tied to U.S. Central Command.
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🔎🇷🇺 A 10-day Moldova–Moscow trip by MAGA influencers from the US, UK and Canada was leveraged in a Kremlin-linked influence operation named “Matushka”. No proof the influencers knowingly took part – but we uncovered their many ties to Russia. VSquare.org
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Great powers once meddled in other country’s elections secretly. Now they are happy for everyone to know
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Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Avec son IA Mythos, Anthropic suscite l’effroi et fait de la cybersécurité la chasse gardée du secteur privé américain
I've seen probably dozens of stories like "why are Iran's Lego propaganda videos so successful?" and a really really obvious part of the answer is because they're getting free global publicity from international media who are just tickled by the Lego angle. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Orban’s defeat also removes a major part of the far-right populist infrastructure worldwide, which I wrote about this fall: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Matryoshka” enters the fray: The Kremlin and the GRU are spreading disinformation in Hungary ahead of its pivotal parliamentary election
The Insider’s latest investigation shows Moscow has mobilized its propaganda and fake news apparatus in support of Viktor Orbán.
"Je n’aime pas parler d’« élimination » ou de « disparus » : des gens ont été tués. Notre univers médiatique baigne dans un vocabulaire de banalité. Or bien qualifier est nécessaire pour la justesse de l’information."
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The State Department has formally directed U.S. diplomatic posts to coordinate anti-speech operations with a specific, privately owned social media platform (Elon Musk'X) and with the Pentagon’s psychological operations apparatus. Via @lawfaremedia.org
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Explosions are going viral — but the explanations often aren’t. Many explosive effects are routinely misidentified online.
Our latest guide explains how to spot misinformation about “mushroom clouds,” “sonic weapons,” and other misidentified blasts. Read it here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of cybersecurity. www.wired.com/story/inside...
À la différence des régimes autoritaires, la France considère que le meilleur rempart face aux manipulations de l’information repose sur des citoyens bien informés, capables de recouper les sources et de questionner les contenus auxquels ils sont exposés.
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NEW from me and @makenakelly.bsky.social : Before influencer Nick Shirley went to California this year, DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine was helping him "extract" info from a public dataset to identify targets for his YouTube "investigation" into fraud.
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🔎NEW INVESTIGATION: The hotline between FM Péter Szijjártó and Sergey Lavrov gives Russia strategic insight into key EU matters. Evidence, including a leaked phone call recording shows Hungary’s FM acted for the Kremlin, pushing to delist sanctioned Russians, with Slovak support.
Today at @disinfo.eu we gave the floor to two of the best Brussels-bubble reporters.
In only a matter of hours, they came back with a scoop on the European Commission's enforcement successes on X.
Sounds almost too good to be true...🤨
Take a look and decide 👇
www.disinfo.eu/publications...
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L’entretien de Lavrov sur France 2 est un cas d’école de la vulnérabilité de nos médias face aux stratégies d’influence russes. Entre la nécessité de la polyphonie et le piège de la mise en scène, l'équilibre est fragile. Comment protéger notre espace médiatique ? colinlebedev.fr/2026/03/29/l... 1/2
Et ce n'est pas tout. Le texte traduit en russe sur le site du MID fait employer à Léa Salamé l'expression "opération militaire spéciale" (l'euphémisme officiel de la propagande russe), alors que celle-ci parle en français d'"offensive militaire en Ukraine".
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De quoi l'interview irresponsable et inconséquent de Sergueï Lavrov dans le journal télévisé de France 2 est-il le symptôme ? Comment expliquer la porosité d'une partie du paysage audiovisuel français à la propagande russe ? /1
"The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk’s X as an 'innovative' tool to help do it."
Quelques semaines après la diffusion par la Maison blanche de vidéos reprenant des images de frappes militaires faisant référence à des jeux vidéos, le Collimateur s'interroge sur les liens entre la guerre et l'univers vidéoludique, avec @romainmielcarek.bsky.social lerubicon.org/collimateur-...
Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email, publish excerpts online
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Lavrov a «exigé que l'intégralité de l'interview soit montrée au public» nous apprend Franceinfo. Qui estime que l'exercice serait «loin de constituer une tribune»... Ah bon ? C'est pourtant tout le problème. Et précisément la raison pour laquelle cette diffusion intégrale a été demandée.
NEW: An AI-generated LEGO movie out of Iran depicting Trump as a war hungry pedophile has gone viral online and in the US. It's one of many. Meanwhile, Trump's AI slop isn't resonating with anyone but his own base.
And yes, to be clear, this just speaks to how bad things are.
Today, the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee released a new report on foreign disinfo as “the new warfare," with evidence from me & @americansunlight.org cited throughout.
It's gratifying to see a government take this threat seriously.
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