Ukrainian intelligence has obtained internal Russian government documents revealing Moscow’s own assessment of its battlefield losses in the war against Ukraine at 1,315,000 soldiers, with 62% dead, 38% wounded.
Polexit : quand l’IA promeut la sortie de la Pologne de l’Europe - Le dessous des images - ARTE youtu.be/0UupgSkjutY?...
« Suis-je venu au monde pour ôter la vie à autrui ? » : téléphone au poing, Dmytro Dokunov dit « Dok » filme au quotidien le basculement de sa vie dans l'enfer de la guerre.
From Wagner to GRU, Russian Military Men Are Manning Moscow’s Shadow Fleet www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
Timothy Snyder for EUvsDisinfo: euvsdisinfo.eu/a-historians...
X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts
Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
An analysis of over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from just 100 influencers.
This minority of users impacts politics, influencing what people view as normal and leads to self-censoring to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists.
Latest commentary from me in BBC Verify on the surge of AI-generated war misinformation.
tl;dr the barrier to creating convincing synthetic conflict footage has collapsed, while engagement-driven monetisation is accelerating its spread.
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Le journalisme peut-il survivre à YouTube, devenu le « premier média de France » avec 43 millions d’utilisateurs ? Récemment arrivé sur @YouTube moi-même, j’en parle avec un vétéran les plus suivis, Gaspard G. Retrouvez notre conversation sur ma chaîne.
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Yet more evidence of why Grok is catastrophically useless in identifying video clips. (The location is Tehran's iconic Azadi Tower.) Don't use it for this purpose!
"A deluge of misrepresented or fabricated videos has spread widely online since the Iran war began last weekend, fueled in part by state-linked propaganda and influence campaigns — particularly around who is winning the war and how many casualties there have been." apnews.com/article/iran...
🔴 BREAKING: Russian intelligence is suspected of sending exploding DHL parcels across Europe.
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Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network spreading terrorist attack scares ahead of Germany’s regional elections
The campaign on X includes 10 unique videos related in one way or another to the election, the Bot Blocker Project
@antibot4navalny.bsky.social reports.
Moscow has sent a team to interfere in Hungary's April 2026 elections, VSquare has learned from multiple European national security sources. The US has also shared intelligence with allies on the task force overseen by Sergei Kiriyenko. vsquare.org/putins-gru-l...
"Le centre Pompidou pourrait accueillir tous les migrants" : Pierre-Yves Bournazel, candidat aux municipales à Paris, visé par une opération d'ingérence liée à un groupe russe
It seems Russian forces in Ukraine were heavily dependent on American technology.
Unauthorized Starlink terminals were used for battlefield communication, drones, and logistics. When the connections were cut, coordination faltered and Ukraine quickly exploited it.
euvsdisinfo.eu/starlink-shu...
J’ai eu le plaisir de parler désinformation et élection municipale, mode opératoire informationnel et protection de la démocratie au micro du podcast de @guillaumeled.it.
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All of this indicates that Americans may have drawn overly broad lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq. Each of these interventions can be broken down into two components: regime change and nation-building. When the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were overthrown, many in the Bush administration advocated for, or at least assumed there would be, relatively fast handovers to local authorities. Instead, the president decided on prolonged nation-building efforts, trying to micromanage transitions to completely new kinds of societies, which eventually would involve establishing a free press, female quotas in parliament, sexual harassment policies for reconstituted police forces, postmodern art exhibits, and study groups to examine misogyny among Afghan locals. In the end, the United States had no idea how to import Western institutions and attitudes into poor Muslim societies. Yet this does not mean that American power cannot be used decisively for more limited ends. The US military is bad at nation-building and social engineering, but as we’ve seen recently, it is very good at killing people. How far can that get you toward accomplishing American goals? We are in the process of finding out.
Bit concerned when the right wing have dropped ‘nation-building’ and are saying they can kill anyone without consequence while still fixated on their ‘culture war’ phantasms archive.is/F97iD
https://www.tiktok.com/@ah_y2213/video/7610066316413734151
THREAD: Misinformation in the Iran/US/Israel war - 3 March
This viral video claims to show the aftermath of a reported drone attack on the US embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, tonight.
But the video was posted last week to TikTok, and shows an unrelated car accident in Riyadh.
L’absence de régulation des plateformes de réseaux sociaux et la prolifération des discours haineux en ligne qui en découle ont un effet concret : l’exclusion progressive de certains citoyens français du débat public et de la vie démocratique.
Deep dive in the transatlantic censorship debate.
In Brussels, the US' attacks have been met with disbelief and anger. For Silicon Valley, the spat presents opportunities and risks to appease both the US and European regulators.
With @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social
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L’absence de régulation des plateformes de réseaux sociaux et la prolifération des discours haineux en ligne qui en découle ont un effet concret : l’exclusion progressive de certains citoyens français du débat public et de la vie démocratique.
The value of Russia's promises:
Just two months ago, Lavrov promised that if there is a war against Iran, Russia will always support and side with Tehran.
🔎🇷🇺 NEW INVESTIGATION: A Russian sect is quietly spreading across Europe, promoting an anti-democratic, antisemitic and patriarchal ideology personally backed by Vladimir Putin. In Poland, its leader pushes pro-Kremlin propaganda. @VSquare_Project
People gathering in a square with Iranian flags and buildings in the background
Read more fact checks about the Middle East war here: factcheck.afp.com/list/Iran-0
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Algorithmic content on X increases #polarization
But downranking content that expresses partisan animosity or antidemocratic attitudes significantly reduces affective polarization equivalent "to 3 years of change in United States affective polarization"
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Read the guest article by Elina Beketova on EUvsDisinfo: euvsdisinfo.eu/russias-info...
Life under Russian occupation is not only a military reality – it is an information siege. How does this system of digital control actually work – and what does it do to people forced to live inside it?
Depuis l’Île Longue, base de nos sous-marins nucléaires lanceurs d’engin, le président a présenté sa nouvelle doctrine de dissuasion. La France va permettre à plusieurs alliés européens de s’associer à des exercices de dissuasion nucléaire.
🇫🇷 Incredible acapella Marseillaise after Macron's nuclear speech at Île Longue. Almost makes you want to join the French Foreign Legion.
🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...
