German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche advised a lobby group representing the super-rich on ways to secure tax cuts, according to internal documents fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...

A months-long investigation by The Ferret and a group of international journalists found there have been 40 propaganda animations produced by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the past two years – including several using the Scottish Maritime Museum’s 3D scans
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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

"While Zivver says these documents are encrypted, an investigation by Follow the Money shows that the company is able to read their contents." www.ftm.eu/articles/eur...

💥🔎💰NEW INVESTIGATION: Across the Visegrád countries, politicians use paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and NGOs – while Meta & Google profit from this #SponsoredHate. Such ads reach tens of thousands of users while evading platform moderation. @vsquare.bsky.social

The death followed months in immigration detention — and human rights groups’ condemnation of Belgium’s crackdown on protests.

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety.

Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Die Bundesregierung liefert weiter nach Israel dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/016/2...

How the EU refuses to talk about its Israel policy, more secrecy on Big Tech policy, and a new uproar over Ursula's texts - today we publish a new edition of our Secrecy Tracker newsletter. 👏 @ftm.eu @investigate-europe.eu @euobserver.com

Read it for free:
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Seems like Google's Gemini is pretty useless for verifying images potentially created by it

#Ukraine: We are deeply saddened to learn of the killing of French photojournalist Antoni Lallican by a Russian drone today. We pay tribute to the courage of Antoni and all the journalists who continue to cover the war. We demand that the perpetrators of his crime be brought to justice.

"Das Kapitalubu"

A leaked CDU/CSU policy document shows how the chancellor's party allows entire passages to be dictated by a German car-industry lobby group. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Protest at Berlin Central Station right now against Israel's interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla

OpenAI’s Sora let me create a fake eyewitness video of a fire at the UN building. It’s not perfect, but it’s certainly fast and good enough.

The original came with a bouncing watermark which was easy to crop out.

Good job everybody.

A kangaroo, allegedly owned by a well-known newspaper publisher, is on the run in Berlin. www.faz.net/aktuell/gese...

Mit einer großen Razzia ist die Polizei gegen junge Neonazis in Berlin, Brandenburg und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern vorgegangen. Das LKA Berlin durchsuchte am Morgen Wohnungen von fünf Männern und drei Frauen, die zur Gruppe „Deutsche Jugend voran“ gehören sollen.

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Jahrelang lobbyierte Maximilian Krah für den kremltreuen Oligarchen Medwedtschuk. Nun stellt sich gerichtsfest heraus: Schon für den ersten gemeinsamen Auftritt floss Bestechungsgeld – an den britischen Politiker Nathan Gill. Gezahlt wurde es von Krahs "altem Freund" Oleg Voloshin.

⚡️Pro-EU party leads in Moldova election as votes are counted.

The EU has warned that Moldova is enduring "an unprecedented campaign of disinformation" from Russia ahead of the election.

European officials fear that Moscow is escalating its antagonism of Europe, including with a shadow campaign to sway this weekend’s election in Moldova, as U.S. support recedes under President Trump.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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Vor 45 Jahren zündete ein Neonazi eine Bombe auf dem #Oktoberfest in München, 12 Tote, 221 teils Schwerstverletzte - der blutigste Terroranschlag der 🇩🇪 Geschichte. Die Behörden verengten sich auf die Einzeltäterthese. Die offenkundig vorhandenen Komplizen laufen noch frei herum. #Rechtsextremismus

This week, YouTube did what it often does: it took the same approach as Meta on a controversial topic, but with a delay and less of a splash.

In a letter signed by a lawyer, YouTube trashed fact-checkers, said it was bullied by Biden and the EU, and rolled back protections on misinformation.

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