Gary Machado
@garymachado.bsky.social
Pushing rocks uphill at @eena.org and @disinfo.eu
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Ça valait le coup de bloquer Russia Today…
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Ça valait le coup de bloquer Russia Today…
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‼️Disinformation and physical propaganda. Austrian intelligence uncovered a large-scale Russian disinformation campaign. www.profil.at/investigativ...
December 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
‼️Disinformation and physical propaganda. Austrian intelligence uncovered a large-scale Russian disinformation campaign. www.profil.at/investigativ...
1/ We talk a lot about Russian disinformation. And rightly so. But sometimes, let’s be honest, we don’t even need the Russians to stop ourselves from moving forward.
December 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
1/ We talk a lot about Russian disinformation. And rightly so. But sometimes, let’s be honest, we don’t even need the Russians to stop ourselves from moving forward.
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Read our latest crazy story on the spy who was so successful at pretending he's someone else that the GRU "killed off" his real persona and stranded him with the fake one. From a fake environmental expert to a purveyor of fake news:
theins.press/en/inv/286477
theins.press/en/inv/286477
A champion like no other: The curious life of a Unit 29155 operative
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s military Intelligence, the GRU, has dramatically stepped up its activities across Europe — from assassinations and acts of sabotage...
theins.press
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Read our latest crazy story on the spy who was so successful at pretending he's someone else that the GRU "killed off" his real persona and stranded him with the fake one. From a fake environmental expert to a purveyor of fake news:
theins.press/en/inv/286477
theins.press/en/inv/286477
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Merci à Sophie Malibeaux de @rfi.fr pour avoir pris le temps de plonger dans #Disinfo2025.
Les dessous de l'infox - #Disinfo2025: comment protéger la démocratie? Que peut le règlement sur les services numériques?
Les plus grandes puissances mondiales -qu’elles soient chinoise ou américaine- dominent l’espace cyberinformationnel du haut de leurs grandes plateformes Tik Tok, Meta, X et autres YouTube. Elles se…
www.rfi.fr
October 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Merci à Sophie Malibeaux de @rfi.fr pour avoir pris le temps de plonger dans #Disinfo2025.
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Il faut lire le compte-rendu des sévices qu'ils ont endurés.
Le système carcéral israélien est une insulte à la démocratie que ce pays prétend être.
Le système carcéral israélien est une insulte à la démocratie que ce pays prétend être.
October 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Il faut lire le compte-rendu des sévices qu'ils ont endurés.
Le système carcéral israélien est une insulte à la démocratie que ce pays prétend être.
Le système carcéral israélien est une insulte à la démocratie que ce pays prétend être.
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Overwhelmed after this year's #Disinfo2025 conference by insights, inspiration & interesting talks with people from different countries, branches and sectors - all gathered in the interest of countering disinformation. Thank you to @disinfo.eu for once again organising such an important event!
October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Overwhelmed after this year's #Disinfo2025 conference by insights, inspiration & interesting talks with people from different countries, branches and sectors - all gathered in the interest of countering disinformation. Thank you to @disinfo.eu for once again organising such an important event!
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Face à la multiplication des opérations de guerre hybride menées par des commanditaires russes, une équipe de chercheurs s'est attelée à cartographier ces actions. Leur travail met en lumière une stratégie d'ensemble dont l'objectif est la déstabilisation du continent européen.
"'L'ingérence informationnelle est devenue un business à Moscou" : derrière la stratégie de déstabilisation russe, une constellation d'acteurs
Face à la multiplication des opérations de guerre hybride menées par des commanditaires russes, une équipe de chercheurs s'est attelée à cartographier ces actions. Leur travail met en lumière une stra...
www.franceinfo.fr
September 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Face à la multiplication des opérations de guerre hybride menées par des commanditaires russes, une équipe de chercheurs s'est attelée à cartographier ces actions. Leur travail met en lumière une stratégie d'ensemble dont l'objectif est la déstabilisation du continent européen.
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If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.
#GAZA: Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, including a freelance journalist who worked for @apnews.com.
At least 8 people were killed in a double-tap strike on the 4th floor, Gaza's Health Ministry said, the second attack came as rescue crews arrived.
At least 8 people were killed in a double-tap strike on the 4th floor, Gaza's Health Ministry said, the second attack came as rescue crews arrived.
August 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.
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Reading Jacques Ellul's (1962) book, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. In it, he laments how American scientists had abandoned the term “propaganda” because it “cannot be defined with any degree of precision," calling that "intellectual surrender." We've been down this same road before.
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
www.cato.org
July 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reading Jacques Ellul's (1962) book, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. In it, he laments how American scientists had abandoned the term “propaganda” because it “cannot be defined with any degree of precision," calling that "intellectual surrender." We've been down this same road before.
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In recent years, we've seen very similar conversations about terms like mis- & disinformation. Terms have been defined & operationalized in different ways. Effects have been hard to measure (often due to overly simplistic models). And some have argued the terms are useless & the concerns overblown.
July 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In recent years, we've seen very similar conversations about terms like mis- & disinformation. Terms have been defined & operationalized in different ways. Effects have been hard to measure (often due to overly simplistic models). And some have argued the terms are useless & the concerns overblown.
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A new bunch of social media posts emailed to Bellingcat today from Russia's Matryoshka disinformation team, with a new theme. All of them focus on European Muslim communities and pigs materials being used in various ways, clearly an attempt to create tensions.
July 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A new bunch of social media posts emailed to Bellingcat today from Russia's Matryoshka disinformation team, with a new theme. All of them focus on European Muslim communities and pigs materials being used in various ways, clearly an attempt to create tensions.
"Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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That's about the same as all the people who have died in every war of the 21st Century, and includes millions of dead children. All blood on MAGA hands.
July 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
That's about the same as all the people who have died in every war of the 21st Century, and includes millions of dead children. All blood on MAGA hands.
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It's worth reading this study, which estimates millions of deaths thanks to Musk and Trump's USAID cuts over the next 5 years.
Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
It's worth reading this study, which estimates millions of deaths thanks to Musk and Trump's USAID cuts over the next 5 years.
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🔴 NEW REPORT
Alongside @reset.tech, we publish our third investigation into Operation Overload. ⤵️
Alongside @reset.tech, we publish our third investigation into Operation Overload. ⤵️
June 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🔴 NEW REPORT
Alongside @reset.tech, we publish our third investigation into Operation Overload. ⤵️
Alongside @reset.tech, we publish our third investigation into Operation Overload. ⤵️
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From the "the official Twitter of the U.S. Mission to the EU." Good job to the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" dipshits for helping authoritarians target their critics.
June 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
From the "the official Twitter of the U.S. Mission to the EU." Good job to the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" dipshits for helping authoritarians target their critics.
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Pendant plusieurs semaines, j'ai travaillé sur l'une des plus grosses fuites de données de l'histoire du complexe russe de manipulation de l'information.J'en ai tiré cet article, qui "teste" l'articulation qu'on peut construire entre leaks et démarche géopolitique legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/06/1...
June 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Pendant plusieurs semaines, j'ai travaillé sur l'une des plus grosses fuites de données de l'histoire du complexe russe de manipulation de l'information.J'en ai tiré cet article, qui "teste" l'articulation qu'on peut construire entre leaks et démarche géopolitique legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/06/1...
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Hygiène informationnelle : le Helsingin Sanomat, 1er quotidien de Finlande, annonce arrêter définitivement l'emploi de titres "clickbait" pour ts ses articles. "Le journalisme doit transmettre de l'information, pas faire gonfler les choses" (les faits ou ses chiffres de lectorat à coup de clickbait)
Odottamattoman positiivista ja hyväksi journalismille.
Helsingin Sanomat luopuu klikkiotsikoista kaikissa kanavissa.
www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
Helsingin Sanomat luopuu klikkiotsikoista kaikissa kanavissa.
www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
Kolumni | Helsingin Sanomat luopuu ”klikkiotsikoista” kaikissa kanavissa
HS:n digitilaajia on nyt 200 000 – panostamme yleisen mediakilpailun sijaan tilaajien palveluun.
www.hs.fi
June 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Hygiène informationnelle : le Helsingin Sanomat, 1er quotidien de Finlande, annonce arrêter définitivement l'emploi de titres "clickbait" pour ts ses articles. "Le journalisme doit transmettre de l'information, pas faire gonfler les choses" (les faits ou ses chiffres de lectorat à coup de clickbait)
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I've pieced together the jigsaw pieces the Russian troll factories have been including in their latest fake news X posts, and I think they're trying to tell me something. but I'm struggling to decipher their subtle message. Thanks to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social for providing the missing pieces.
June 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I've pieced together the jigsaw pieces the Russian troll factories have been including in their latest fake news X posts, and I think they're trying to tell me something. but I'm struggling to decipher their subtle message. Thanks to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social for providing the missing pieces.
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Trump agrees to delay EU tariffs until July 9
www.reuters.com/business/tru...
www.reuters.com/business/tru...
May 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Trump agrees to delay EU tariffs until July 9
www.reuters.com/business/tru...
www.reuters.com/business/tru...
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🔴 DIRECTO #Eurovision | "Frente a los derechos humanos, el silencio no es una opción". RTVE arranca la emisión de Eurovisión con este mensaje a pesar de las amenazas del certamen de multar a la cadena si sus comentaristas mencionaban el conflicto en Gaza dozz.es/mbmnv4
May 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
🔴 DIRECTO #Eurovision | "Frente a los derechos humanos, el silencio no es una opción". RTVE arranca la emisión de Eurovisión con este mensaje a pesar de las amenazas del certamen de multar a la cadena si sus comentaristas mencionaban el conflicto en Gaza dozz.es/mbmnv4
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The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision