💥🔎💰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:
www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

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.

www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/extre...

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.

Unsere Recherche zur Stiftung Familienunternehmen belegt; sie ist ein Club von Superreichen und Großkonzernen. Ihre Mitglieder hält sie geheim. Wir ordnen dem Netzwerk der Stiftung 258 Familiendynastien und Unternehmen zu, beleuchten ihre Klimaschädlichkeit, und veröffentlichen die ganze Liste. 🤑1/6

"The Israeli government will not allow international reporters into Gaza to do their work and to document freely what they see. International journalists must now be allowed into Gaza to share the burden with Palestinian reporters there so we can all bring the facts to the world."

das ist mit abstand die absurdeste recherche, die @thomastitelblatt.bsky.social und ich jemals gemacht haben. eine zusammenarbeit von @profil.at und @datum.at

www.profil.at/oesterreich/...

Der DFB wusste, dass wir diese Woche unsere Recherche zu Gewalterfahrungen veröffentlichen, die Kinder und Jugendliche – meist durch Trainer – erleben mussten. Kurz vorher brachte der Verband sein Lagebild zu Gewalt auf dem Spielfeld heraus. Das sorgte für ein Ungleichgewicht in den Schlagzeilen.

Deepfake selfdebunking as misinformation correction method –what could possibly go wrong here? www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...