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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’ A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests. Robby Starbuck, 36, of Nashville, was appointed in August as an adviser by Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other tech platforms – in an August lawsuit settlement. Continue reading...

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Roman A. @romanad.bsky.social · 6h

Avec pour corollaire de nouveaux probables taux d'abstention records à venir.

L'arrivée de partis extremistes au pouvoir passe souvent moins par une adhesion massive à des idees radicales de la population que par ce phénomène de désengagement d'une partie de la société de la chose politique.

Libération @liberation.fr · 21h

«On dirait une cour de récréation» : dans le Nord, des citoyens écœurés par la crise politique

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«On dirait une cour de récréation» : dans le Nord, des citoyens écœurés par la crise politique

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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 6h

Sous des taux de croissance record, la Géorgie renforce sa dépendance à la Russie. Un retour en arrière qui s’accomplit dans un contexte de dérive autoritaire, et met en cause la capacité du pays à faire des choix souverains.

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L’emprise russe sur la Géorgie passe aussi par l’économie

Sous des taux de croissance record, la Géorgie renforce sa dépendance à la Russie. Un retour en arrière qui s’accomplit dans un contexte de dérive autoritaire, et met en cause la capacité du pays à faire des choix souverains.

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Géopolitique @geopolitique.bsky.social · 6h

Information suite au commentaires et pour éclairer le débat / Russie / En 2024, les écoles maternelles russes ont organisé plus de 200 000 événements militaro-patriotiques. La propagande du SVO commence dès l'âge de trois ans. novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

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Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Farida Rustamova @faridaily.bsky.social · 1d

Russian President Putin delivered a geopolitical rant last week, which appeared to crystallize a new foreign policy direction. These were Putin’s first public comments on foreign affairs for several weeks, and he made it abundantly clear that Europe—not the US—is now Russia’s primary adversary

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered.
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Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 1d

🔥“Security researchers say they duped pro-🇷🇺 Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack (on what looked like) a water treatment plant to a remote attacker.”

The Register @theregister.com · 2d

Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap

Forescout's phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shop Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.…

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 1d

Veikko Palko, the man who used his lottery win as a retiree to support 🇫🇮Finnish counterintelligence, was described by Seppo Tiitinen, who later became the head of the Finnish Counterintelligence Agency in the 1970s, as the “most significant Finnish counterintelligence officer of all time”.

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Roman A. @romanad.bsky.social · 17h

Ukraine is bringing the war home to Russia at a scale, scope, and intensity not seen before, and in a way that could have consequences—maybe not on the battlefield, but in the hearts, minds, and pocketbooks of ordinary Russians.
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Ukraine Is Hitting Russia Where It Hurts: Its Oil Refineries

Kyiv’s two-year offensive against Russian oil facilities has intensified, eating away at Moscow’s energy revenues.

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 1d

Tech-investor Peter Thiel, best known for sponsoring J.D. Vance and co-founding Palantir, goes theology:

“Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Charlie Hebdo @charliehebdo.fr · 2d

Accès libre | Il ne fait pas bon vivre dans les antichambres du pouvoir russe ces dernières années. Depuis 2022, au moins une trentaine de généraux, ministres et PDG russes ont été victimes d'un décès aussi inattendu que suspect

Russie. Épidémie de morts subites dans les cercles du pouvoir

Nouveau métier à haut risque : grand patron en Russie. On pourrait penser que la mort frappe surtout sur le front ukrainien, mais c’est mal connaître les risques du métier à Moscou… Depuis le début de la guerre, une étrange épidémie de décès inexpliqués ravage les cercles dirigeants du pays. Le dernier à en faire […]

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Alexandre Jubelin @alexjubelin.bsky.social · 2d

Un épisode exceptionnellement en anglais avec l'un des tout meilleurs analystes de la guerre en Ukraine, en studio, pendant plus d'1h30 : désolé pour ceux pour qui ça va être un peu difficile à suivre, mais c'était une occasion à ne pas louper.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 2d

3/ Kremlin officials continue to indicate that US-Russian relations are deteriorating to levels similar to those during the Biden admin.

Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK Valerii Zaluzhnyi highlighted a Russian cognitive warfare effort to spread false information about future Ukrainian elections.

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Matthieu Guyot @matthieugdsm.bsky.social · 3d

Un professeur d'histoire à l'université Rutgers, spécialiste de l'anti fascisme a été désigné comme antifa par l'organisation de Charlie Kirk ("l'homme du dialogue"), Turning point.
Doxing et menaces de mort (dont une de le tuer devant ses étudiants) l'ont conduit à fuir le pays avec sa famille.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 2d

A massive overnight Russian aerial attack knocked out electricity in much of Kyiv, per power provider DTEK. It's the second major attack this week targeting Ukraine's grid infrastructure. Kyiv's mayor says at least 12 people were wounded.
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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 3d

Delegitimizing women and limiting their rights goes hand in hand with democratic backsliding around the world.

@saskiabr.bsky.social explained the relationship between women’s rights and democratic resilience, for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

As Democratic Institutions Erode, Women See a Loss of Rights

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 3d

Putin admits Ukraine is striking deep inside Russia, but downplays their significance

Gas shortages worsen in Russia, prices surge, and Belarus boosts fuel exports.
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ISW: Putin admits Ukraine is striking refineries but claims it “won’t help”

Gasoline shortages and surging prices hit Russia as Ukrainian attacks target vital oil infrastructure across vast distances.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 8d

thinking about this piece from last year by @qjurecic.bsky.social and how our institutions and political leadership failed to support the folks who saw all of this coming

Good Luck Fighting Disinformation

A group that formed during the pandemic to counter medical lies found that every lever it pulled on failed to produce the results it was hoping for.

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Roman A. @romanad.bsky.social · 8d

Encore disponible en replay, le documentaire Politzek nous montre en suivant clandestinement le sort de prisonniers politiques, majoritairement via leurs proches, toute la folie du totalitarisme brutal imposé par Poutine au peuple russe. www.france.tv/documentaire...

Politzek, les voix qui défient le Kremlin - Documentaire en replay Le monde en face

En Russie, critiquer la guerre en Ukraine ou le régime de Vladimir Poutine est devenu un crime. Des milliers de citoyens ordinaires sont arrêtés, jugés, empr...

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 8d

This week’s short Europe Dispatch with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social:

Deterrence by denial doesn’t work in hybrid warfare because denying effect doesn’t stop Russia from continuing the attacks. What a nice life we all could have had if Russia had just become a normal country after the Cold War. Alas

The Resilience Dilemma

In this week’s Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander reflects on the fact that deterrence by resilience clearly does not work.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 8d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
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French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 8d

A new Slidstvo Info investigation exposes the Russian facility where journalist Victoriia Roshchyna was held and those behind her torture and death.

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Roman A. @romanad.bsky.social · 8d

Aussi poignant que terrifiant, ce documentaire est une plongée intense dans les méandres kafkaiens d'une dictature moderne cherchant à eradiquer toute forme de dissidence.

Cela mérite d'être vu pour comprendre à quoi on fait face et les dangers qui menacent nos démocraties.

Roman A. @romanad.bsky.social · 8d

Ado de 14 ans, historien de 80 ans spécialiste des droits de l'homme, jeune femme idéaliste, artistes de théâtre, l'engrenage de la répression n'épargne personne dès que vous semblez vous écarter d'un millimètre de la ligne officielle.

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