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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 13h

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

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 15h

Fair point!

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 16h

3/3 Background:

"With public trust [to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan] at an all-time low, disillusionment among the electorate could make this the most unpredictable vote [in Armenia] since independence was declared in 1991" — www.commonspace.eu/analysis/des...

Despite disillusionment, Pashinyan favourite to win crucial 2026 vote in Armenia

Next year’s parliamentary elections in Armenia will not focus on the economy or other domestic issues, but rather on the country’s place in the surrounding region and relations with its neighbours. Pr...

www.commonspace.eu

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 16h

2/3 Before that, the longest similar pre-election effort (targeting Moldova) took 5½ months.

bsky.app/profile/anti...

antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 19d

BREAKING:

🇲🇩 Moldova parliamentary elections are more important for the Russian state to interfere than these 2024-2025 elections _combined_:

🇺🇸 US, presidential
🇩🇪 Germany, parliamentary
🇵🇱 Poland, presidential

...as measured by an effort spent on a bot network. 🧵

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 16h

🧵 Russian-state bot network started influencing public debate around June-2026 Armenian elections with a record-setting advance time, 8 months; with efforts not directly mentioning the elections started with a 1-year(!) advance: t.me/agentstvonew...

Агентство. Новости

Кремлеботы запустили кампанию по дезинформации к июньским выборам в Армении. Они рассказывают, как Пашинян строит газовые камеры Во вторник аккаунты российской сети дезинформации «Матрешка» начали ра...

t.me

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 17h

Also detailed by Agents Media today: x.com/agents_media...

Новости «Агентства» on X: "Кремлеботы запустили кампанию по дезинформации к июньским выборам в Армении. Они рассказывают, как Пашинян строит газовые камеры Во вторник аккаунты российской сети дезинформации «Матрешка» начали распространять в соцсетях X и Bluesky видео с упоминанием назначенных на июнь 2026 https://t.co/5pwKSETVzo" / X

Кремлеботы запустили кампанию по дезинформации к июньским выборам в Армении. Они рассказывают, как Пашинян строит газовые камеры Во вторник аккаунты российской сети дезинформации «Матрешка» начали распространять в соцсетях X и Bluesky видео с упоминанием назначенных на июнь 2026 https://t.co/5pwKSETVzo

x.com

antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 17h

@support.bsky.team

bsky.app

antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 17h

Unrelated:

BlueSky user-facing search of skeets seems to be down:

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 17h

We are working on this in contact with Jaz since Saturday. Thank you!

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 21h

We are grateful to the BlueSky @Safety.bsky.app team who suspended the entire list of 219 accounts that we found so far for this network.

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 2d

Same with purchasing (eg travel) eSIMs on behalf of a user, as iOS allows to.

antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, and if you allow users to create online accounts / profiles, you need to cooperate with local mobile operators to be able to send SMSes with one-time registration / authentication codes. Which operators will definitely stop processing such SMSes if your company is "undesirable" or something.

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 2d

...you need to cooperate with the local govt; set up a physical presence in the country. That means employees located there, who can be threatened with jail in case of any "informal requests".

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 2d

As long as you need to process payments with the users / business in a country in question (selling ads, collecting subscription fees on app store or music / video streaming, paying back their share to content / app creators) or process card transactions (Apple/Google Pay),

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 3d

Feels like a content farm in social media: posting only stolen videos, with "DM to remove" disclaimer in their bio.

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 3d

Neither search engine (Google) nor mobile phone OS/hardware (Android, iOS/iPhone) are economically feasible in decentralized setting. Only social media, potentially, yet to be proven by practice.

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 4d

This will be easily addressed by autocrats: "it is illegal to disclose any of our requests to you, Google".

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 5d

(Having said that, it's unclear what should be their behavior. Choosing human rights over local regulation in case of conflict between them effectively means agreeing to leave every autocratic-governed market they serve, which is typically a bad decision both for users and for the tech giants)

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 5d

From experience, the legal team finds it reasonable to comply with whatever requirement they face in the markets they consider they are present. Definitely with all formal requirements, but in case of serious threat to eg its local employees—also with informal ones.

Exceptions are extremely rare.

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 5d

VERY interesting report by @citizenlab.ca and Clemson Media Forensics Hub.

Alberto Fittarelli @fittarelli.com · 6d

1/ NEW REPORT: “We Say You Want a Revolution” - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime. We call it PRISONBREAK. Keep reading to find out why.

THREAD 🧵

We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab

We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during th...

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-enabled-io-aimed-at-overthrowing-iranian-regime]

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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 5d

NEW REPORT: We uncovered a coordinated network of fake X profiles that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in #Iran. We call this network “PRISONBREAK”.

Read the report 👉 citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...

We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab

We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during th...

citizenlab.ca

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 5d

I hope @safety.bsky.app will suspend the entire network any day now.

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 5d

How easy is it to spot a state-sponsored sockpuppet account on social media?

For those of you who claim it is trivial, time to put your belief to the test by Clemson Media Forensics Hub:
spotthetroll.org/share/5

Personally I could only make 5/8—despite my 8th year focusing on the sector.

Can you Spot the Trolls?

Test your ability to decipher between troll activity and authentic social media content. Learn the signs of a possible troll account.

spotthetroll.org

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 5d

5/5
In RUSSIAN:
Covered by Agents Media: t.me/agentstvonew...

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 5d

4/5
In FRENCH:
Covered by @JustineBrabant.bsky.social for @MediaPartt.fr

(with excerpt #1 citing our findings via @TheIns.press): bsky.app/profile/medi...

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