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Rula Jebreal wrote that, in her opinion, there was an attempt underway to dismantle the legacies of the Allied victory over Nazi fascism, starting with international criminal justice, which was born in Nuremberg and is today represented by the International Criminal Court. She called the comment attributed to Israel regarding the Nobel to Navi Pillay, stating that "Joseph Goebbels is applauding from hell," a "grotesque reversal of history." Jebreal argued that the applause should rather go to those who, in her opinion, were trying to dismantle international justice and ensure impunity for war criminals. According to Jebreal, the delegitimization of the courts was the first step towards replacing the law with the will of those in power, with democracy as the ultimate target. She also criticized the announcement of a live-streamed execution by firing squad of the perpetrator of the Fort Hood massacre, describing it as a transformation of punishment into spectacle and the state into a stage of vengeance. She concluded that, in addition to international justice, the principles of national rule of law were also under attack. #GiustiziaInternazionale #DirittiUmani #Democrazia (translated)

A 14-year-old boy has been reported for posting comments and photos on social media that alluded to massacres and acts of terrorism, using the Cyrillic alphabet to evade censorship, but law enforcement intervened before the situation could escalate further. #violenza #minori #socialmedia (translated)

Timostene addressed the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, and those managing the party's accounts, arguing that in 2026, politics primarily took place on social media. In his view, news originated and circulated online before making it to television, while the party's gatherings attracted the same people. He criticized the Democratic Party's poor presence on social media and claimed that market visits and television appearances lacked sufficient visibility. He also argued that the party was at a disadvantage on television: according to him, Rai had been taken over by the right, and Mediaset had always sided with them. He proposed filming market visits and posting television appearances online as well. Timostene noted that twenty-year-olds spent a lot of time on their phones and stated that in March they contributed to the victory of the No vote in the referendum on justice through Instagram stories and TikTok videos shared among friends. He added that that vote was against the government and that the Democratic Party needed to win their support individually. He urged Schlein and the party to seek out young people on the platforms they frequented, respond to comments, and show themselves in person. He accused them of appearing detached and argued that the Democratic Party was mainly present in others' news broadcasts, often in relation to controversies with Giuseppe Conte. He wrote that this also concerned the accounts of the Democratic Party's deputies and senators. #politica #socialmedia #elezioni (translated)

Giancarlo Loquenzi wrote that he saw comments suggesting that there is no evidence that the Russians had hit the two buses in Kramatorsk, causing 33 casualties. He said he did not know whether to be concerned about what he considered a level of madness or to appreciate the effect of shame. #Kramatorsk #Giustizia #Conflitto (translated)

The grace granted by Mattarella to the jeweler Guido Gianni, sentenced to 12 years and 4 months, has sparked positive comments, such as that of Salvini, and has highlighted differences compared to another case of grace, that of Roggero. #Giustizia #Quirinale #Condanna (translated)

Paola Di Caro wrote that she made a mistake in the controversy, allowing the back-and-forth to distract attention from her son. She said that the child had inadvertently become the center of hundreds of comments and that it was solely her responsibility to protect him from that uproar. #genitori #amore #responsabilità (translated)

Disinformation for hire – the network of 70 fake newsrooms sold as a service The websites looked local. Naija Pulse appeared to cover Nigeria, Echo Berlin Germany, The British Daily Britain, Fifty States the United States and Commonwealth Post Australia. Each had its own branding, articles, supposed journalists and matching social-media presence. Taken individually, they resembled small independent news outlets. According to Anthropic, however, they were parts of a single commercial influence network spanning six continents. Anthropic’s September 2026 threat report identifies the operation as GTG-54002, a commercial “influence-as-a-service” network that used Claude to generate and rewrite political content at industrial scale. Investigators linked roughly 70 fabricated news websites to around 70 matching X accounts and more than 250 additional inauthentic commenting accounts designed to create the appearance of genuine public engagement. The network produced at least 8,913 articles in about 20 languages before Anthropic disrupted the activity. The significance of the case is not simply the number of fake sites. It is the business model. The network did not consistently promote one government, party or ideology. Anthropic found that its political position changed according to the apparent interests of different customers. The company therefore described it as a commercial influence operation: political manipulation offered in much the same way as other outsourced digital services. A fake media ecosystem built at scale Anthropic says the infrastructure was created rapidly. Domains were registered from France during a roughly ten-week period in mid-2025 and deployed through shared technical infrastructure, allowing investigators to connect publications that outwardly appeared unrelated. Most of the supporting social-media accounts were also created within a narrow timeframe in June and July 2025. The sites were designed to look like functioning local newsrooms rather than anonymous propaganda pages. Articles carried fabricated bylines belonging to journalists who, according to Anthropic, did not exist. Each outlet had a corresponding account on X, while a second layer of fake profiles commented on and amplified the articles. Many of those accounts used AI-generated profile photographs. The result was a three-tier structure: the newsroom published the story, the branded social account distributed it, and apparently ordinary users supplied the appearance of public reaction. Some of those sites remained publicly visible after the operation was exposed. The British Daily, for example, described itself as providing “conservative insights” on British sovereignty and migration, while Commonwealth Post presented itself as an Australian liberal publication focused on democracy, migration and regional security. Those contrasting editorial identities illustrate the central feature identified by Anthropic: the network was capable of taking different political positions in different markets. Claude as a publishing engine Claude was not simply asked to draft occasional articles. The operators built a structured production pipeline around it. Prompts required fixed JSON outputs, formatted HTML, precise character limits and internal links, allowing articles to move directly into an automated publishing workflow. The system could generate entirely new material or take reporting produced by legitimate journalists and rewrite it to fit a desired political perspective. Anthropic identified three recurring techniques. The same source article could be rewritten in opposite ideological directions for different audiences; a political interpretation could be added to a story that originally contained none; and material could be moved from one country to another after its original context had been removed. The articles were also structured to improve the apparent authority of the sites in search engines, helping the network imitate ordinary digital publishing practices rather than simply broadcasting propaganda. This is where generative AI changes the economics of an influence operation. A conventional network of dozens of supposedly local publications would normally require writers, translators, editors and social-media staff. Here, much of that production could be standardised and automated while human operators concentrated on political direction, customer requirements and distribution. The DRC–Rwanda conflict as a test case The clearest concentration of activity involved the Democratic Republic of Congo. Anthropic identified 318 articles concerning the DRC across the fake-news network. The material generally supported positions aligned with the Congolese government, particularly on regional mineral agreements and tensions with Rwanda. Early in the network’s growth, many of the fake social-media personas following and amplifying its accounts also presented themselves as Congolese. Investigators observed one especially revealing episode on 11 September 2025, when multiple sites published almost identical articles about the DRC–Rwanda conflict within approximately three minutes of one another. The wording and political tone were adjusted for different regional audiences, while associated X accounts distributed the links in a coordinated pattern. Anthropic said the activity contained signals suggesting that one or more customers had interests connected to the DRC–Rwanda conflict. It did not, however, identify those customers and explicitly stated that it found no evidence that any government had directed the operation. That distinction is essential. The content may have benefited a political actor without demonstrating that the actor commissioned or controlled it. Influence without ideology Commercialisation is what distinguishes GTG-54002 from many state-linked information operations. A government propaganda network usually has an identifiable strategic direction. A commercial influence provider does not need one. Its infrastructure can support one position in one country and the opposite position somewhere else, provided different customers are willing to pay. That makes attribution more difficult. Analysts cannot necessarily infer the operator from the ideology of the content because ideology may simply be part of the service package. The enduring asset is the infrastructure: domains, publishing systems, fake journalists, social-media accounts and automated amplification. Anthropic says the operation was disrupted before it achieved significant genuine reach. It classified GTG-54002 as Category Two on the Brookings Breakout Scale: material circulated across the network’s own sites and associated social accounts but showed no evidence of substantial penetration into authentic communities. Most of the 8,913 articles generated little observable engagement from real users. That limited impact is important. The case should not be presented as a successful global manipulation campaign. It is better understood as evidence that the infrastructure required to run such campaigns has become cheaper, faster and increasingly commoditised. The deeper shift is that a fake media ecosystem no longer has to be built around a single political cause. It can be built once, automated and then repurposed for the next customer. Disinformation, in this model, is no longer only a political instrument as it turend into the service. Sources: Anthropic — Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026 Business Standard — AI scaling fake newsrooms, surveillance and online scams https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/anthropic-report-ai-fake-newsrooms-dating-surveillance-scams-126091100730_1.html Mimikama — KI baut 70 erfundene Nachrichtenportale https://www.mimikama.org/ki-netzwerk-erfundene-nachrichtenportale-echo-berlin/ Poliscoop Media — Anthropic exposes DRC propaganda network https://www.poliscoopmedia.com/articles/anthropic-exposes-drc-propaganda-network-20260911 The British Daily — example of a fabricated outlet identified in the network https://www.british-daily.com/contact Commonwealth Post — example of a fabricated outlet identified in the network https://commonwealth-post.com/category/science MalPulse — infrastructure references for network domains https://www.malpulse.com/infra-pivots/usom-pivots/list/?page=1105 Keywords: #DISINFORMED #Episode13 #DisinformationAsAService #InfluenceAsAService #FakeNewsrooms #FakeMedia #SyntheticMedia #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #ClaudeAI #Anthropic #Disinformation #InfluenceOperations #InformationWarfare #FIMI #CommercialInfluence #PoliticalManipulation #NarrativeManipulation #NarrativeLaundering #SourceLaundering #MediaImpersonation #FakeJournalists #SyntheticPersonas #Astroturfing #SocialMediaManipulation #CoordinatedInauthenticBehaviour #CIB #DigitalInfluence #AutomatedPropaganda #ContentAutomation #AIPropaganda #LKMCompany #NaijaPulse #AxumVoices #JamboJournal #EchoBerlin #TheBritishDaily #FiftyStates #CommonwealthPost #DRC #Rwanda #OSINT #WRLD

"Bettini always has the merit of setting out broad reasoning that never trivializes the complex reality we live in. Today he calls for a different role for Europe, one that is not just that of a group of volunteers carrying out a proxy war. A turning point is needed." The proposal sparks various comments, starting with that of Giuseppe Conte, the frontman of the no to arms movement. #Ucraina #ArmiDiverse #PoliticaItaliana (translated)

«Il mondo intero dovrebbe prendere esempio da quello che succede dentro lo spogliatoio di una squadra di calcio. È inutile dare spazio a tali persone e alle loro affermazioni, sono solo assurdità complete».Sulla vicenda è intervenuto anche il Ct della nazionale tedesca, Jürgen Klopp, che si è detto profondamente disgustato dai commenti che ha letto online. #Razzismo #Calcio #Germania

More money in the paycheck for teachers, nurses, and law enforcement. And enough with the advance payments mechanism that forces freelancers to pay taxes on the following year. We talked about it last night on Porta a Porta. What do you think? I read the comments. https://t.co/vYcPXEmsfe #Salario #GiustiziaFiscale #Lavoro #IT (translated)

Emma Navarro, due to her illness, has seen her days, her work, and even her appearance change. For the latter, she has been fiercely ridiculed on social media. Judging bodies is not an opinion, like preferring Roman or Neapolitan pizza. It’s wrong. It’s the damn out of Monte Carlo between Sinner and Tsitsipas in the comments. Because it doesn’t matter how intelligent you are and how much awareness you have. It doesn’t matter if it’s not your fault. It doesn’t matter if your father is a billionaire and instead of buying you Madagascar, you decided to earn a place in sports. It hurts anyway, because the body is the physical boundary between us and the world, and all boundaries, if bombarded for too long, end up falling. It makes me angry that Emma had to explain it, I’m grateful to her for wanting to do it. I, in her place, would be in Madagascar by now. #tennis #emmanavarro #tennis #emmanavarro #corpo #sport #socialmedia (translated)

Cristiano Ronaldo’s sister Elma shares the following message on Instagram by commenting “everything has been said here”. “CR7 deserved more respect. The national team deserved more structure. Portuguese journalism deserved more competence and less speculation. As for the https://t.co/gePBdM27FT #CristianoRonaldo #Futebol #Portugal #PT (translated)

Today the newspapers open with the reduction of energy bills by Eni and other suppliers, comments on the verdict in the murder of Giulio Regeni, and the closure of investigations into the murder of Chiara Poggi, as well as protests in Spain over the housing crisis. #bollette #GiulioRegeni #ChiaraPoggi (translated)

Many Americans live in the UK – but few vote back home. This year, that must change. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/22/americans-in-uk-vote #midterms #midterms2026 #politics