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With Netanyahu, they at least know what they're getting. Daniel expects losses for Netanyahu's party in the upcoming election on October 27: dissatisfaction is high. People live in the north and suffer from rocket fire and explosions – why would they put up with that? Politicians called on people to return and rebuild the north, says Daniel. #Israel #Libanon #Sicherheitsfrage (translated)

Fluminense FC lamented that, according to the club, the classic match against Flamengo was marked by two refereeing errors. The team stated that, in the first half, Erick Pulgar struck Rodrigo Castillo's knee with the sole of his shoe, in a tackle that would have endangered the forward's physical integrity, and criticized referee Rafael Klein for not sending off the player. They also pointed out the omission of VAR, overseen by Daniel Nobre Bins. The club further stated that, in the second half, Alex Sandro knocked down Savarino inside the area without contesting the ball, but the referee did not award a penalty. Fluminense asserted that the tolerance to this type of incident threatened the safety of the players and that the failure to apply the rules could alter the dynamics and outcome of the match. #FluminenseFC #Flamengo #arbitragem (translated)

Vicky Dávila stated that Abelardo De La Espriella had ordered the cancellation in Qatar of the commission of Captain Kelly Daniela Lozano, former head of security for Verónica Alcocer. She added that Eva Ferrer had mentioned her in an interview with SEMANA. https://t.co/A4b7iMgk3n #LaJefeDeLaBanda #Catar #Seguridad #Política (translated)

Yesid Lancheros wrote that President Abelardo De La Espriella had ordered the cancellation of the commission in Qatar of Captain Kelly Daniela Lozano, former head of security for Verónica Alcocer, whom Eva Ferrer had mentioned in an interview with Vicky Dávila published by SEMANA. He added that Lozano should report immediately to the police to be heard, while the authorities sought her cooperation with the investigations and assessed whether to call her for service evaluation. #Colombia #Justicia #Investigación (translated)

The NINJA Media classified the act as historic and stated that a spontaneous mobilization of fandoms became the largest demonstration of the campaign. The publication also expressed support for Lula. The video was credited to Daniel Farias and NINJA Media. https://t.co/dgaeWW9m9P #Lula #Fandoms #Mobilização (translated)

The NINJA Media reported that a crowd occupied several blocks of Avenida Paulista on Sunday (11), during the March for Democracy, which brought together supporters of Lula in the final stretch of the second round. The video was credited to Daniel Frias. https://t.co/IF7NRNRspZ #MarchaPelaDemocracia #Lula #AvenidaPaulista (translated)

Apollo News reported that nine ministers from union-led agricultural departments had called for the complete abandonment of the planned sugar tax. Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Daniel Günther had previously advocated for the levy several times but failed with his demand at a CDU party conference. https://t.co/Q3MiXCHp8G #Zuckersteuer #Agrarpolitik #CDU (translated)

In the past, a psychologist was someone. Today, a master's degree is the absolute minimum, which guarantees nothing. After graduation, it turns out that you are nobody. A patient enters the office and asks: "Are you a psychotherapist or just a psychologist?" When he hears that you only have a master's, he looks at you like an intern— In the past, a psychologist was someone. Today, a master's degree is the absolute minimum, which guarantees nothing. After graduation, it turns out that you are nobody. A patient enters the office and asks: "Are you a psychotherapist or just a psychologist?" When he hears that you only have a master's, he looks at you like an intern— says Daniel, who is training to become a child psychotherapist in one of the hospitals in Silesia. #psychologia #rynekpracy #kształcenie (translated)

Oskar Wojcik showed an impressive performance in central defense during his second appearance for Werder Bremen after being substituted in for the injured Amos Pieper, and received a lot of praise from coach Daniel Thioune for it. #WerderBremen #OskarWojcik #Bundesliga (translated)

Operation Dark Clark – Russia built a real organisation around a false identity Most influence operations create fake people, fake websites or fake news stories. Operation Dark Clark appears to have gone considerably further: Russian operators built what looked like a functioning research organisation in Latin America, employed real people to produce genuine research and concealed from those employees who was ultimately directing their work. OpenAI disclosed the operation on 8 October after banning a cluster of accounts originating in Russia. The actors used ChatGPT while targeting countries across Latin America, principally to damage Ukraine’s reputation, manipulate domestic political debates and manage a self-described research organisation called the Social Research Center, or SRC. OpenAI assessed Dark Clark as Category Five on the six-level Breakout Scale, the first operation it has disrupted since beginning its influence-operation reporting to reach that level. A front organisation with real employees The SRC presented itself as a research platform studying subjects including Latin America’s relationship with India and the Indian diaspora. OpenAI found more than 60 articles on its website, most of them apparently original rather than plagiarised. Internal reports produced by the Russian operators discussed hiring, dismissals, salary scales, staffing and unfinished research projects, strongly suggesting that the operators controlled the organisation rather than merely collaborating with it. At the centre of the structure was “Mia Clark”, a fictitious identity reportedly used to manage social-media activity and communicate with staff. According to OpenAI, the available evidence indicates that employees working for SRC in Latin America were probably unaware that the organisation was being directed by Russian actors. They interviewed experts, conducted research and wrote papers in what appears to have been good faith. The deception therefore existed primarily at the organisational level: much of the work was real, but the identity and strategic purpose of the institution commissioning it were not. OpenAI This is one reason Dark Clark differs from the familiar model of a troll farm. A reader encountering an SRC paper might be looking at research genuinely written by a Latin American employee based on genuine interviews. The manipulation lies further upstream, in who built the institution, selected its direction and controlled its infrastructure. From forged emails to real events The operation also appears to have attempted something more ambitious than online persuasion: inducing real people to produce events that could later be turned into propaganda. In May 2026, according to the operators’ internal reports, they created an email address impersonating Lima’s regional education authorities and instructed schools to organise activities about Ukraine for a cultural-diversity event. The instructions included references to Stepan Bandera, whose historical legacy remains particularly contentious in Poland and parts of Eastern Europe. The operators claimed that some schools complied, replied to the false address and sent photographs of the events. OpenAI could not independently verify every claim contained in the operators’ reports. It did, however, find Peruvian reporting matching the story, followed by publications in Poland and an English-language outlet in Hungary. Some coverage included comments from a Polish MEP calling for people displaying what he described as anti-Polish attitudes to be declared persona non grata. OpenAI therefore concluded that the fabricated starting point appears to have entered genuine political debate across national borders. The mechanism is unusually effective because the final photographs need not themselves be fabricated. If people can be tricked into staging a real event on the basis of a forged instruction, the operation creates authentic visual evidence of something that was artificially initiated. The same method in Ecuador and Bolivia Dark Clark’s internal reports describe similar efforts elsewhere. In Ecuador, the operators claimed they used a fake education email to encourage schools to stage ceremonies involving President Daniel Noboa and Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater. Ecuadorian media subsequently covered a matching controversy, and the country’s education minister issued a detailed denial. Other Ecuador-focused material included fabricated audio attributed to Ukraine’s consul and a false television report alleging that Noboa’s government was recruiting Ecuadorians to fight in Ukraine. Local fact-checker Lupa found that the supposed Teleamazonas report had never been broadcast, that images had been taken from Instagram, that the audio was AI-generated and that a company named in a supposed recruitment contract did not exist in Ecuador’s corporate registry. In Bolivia, an internal report described a fake audio recording supposedly made by an employee of state water company EPSAS during anti-government protests. It claimed that water supplies to La Paz would be cut and a state of emergency declared. The allegation produced a fact-check and an official denial. OpenAI says the operators explicitly described their objective as worsening the political crisis surrounding the demonstrations. Possible links to the post-Wagner influence machine Dark Clark did not emerge in a vacuum. The operators repeatedly asked ChatGPT about Politology and La Compania, names associated in previous investigations with the Russian influence apparatus that developed from structures once connected to Yevgeny Prigozhin. Forbidden Stories and its partners obtained 1,431 pages of internal documents describing a network known as “The Company”, which they reported had grown to almost 100 operatives and was conducting influence projects across roughly 30 Global South countries. Their investigation found that the organisation moved under the supervision of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, after Prigozhin’s death. Its documented budget for ten months of activity in 2024 was approximately €7.3 million. Two older Argentina campaigns claimed in Dark Clark’s internal reports — a false story about Javier Milei buying Cartier collars for his dogs and the staging of anti-Milei graffiti — had already been independently attributed by investigative journalists to Politology/La Compania. That is significant corroboration, but it is not enough to prove that every Dark Clark activity was run by the same organisational structure. AI was the back office, not the mastermind Perhaps the most important finding concerns artificial intelligence itself. In most documented cases, the Russians were not using ChatGPT to generate the propaganda seen by the public. Their principal use was administrative: drafting reports for an unknown superior, summarising operations, translating material and recording the supposed success of campaigns. Those reports also expose a weakness in the operators’ own measurement. OpenAI found instances in which they tried to claim credit for developments they had probably not caused, suggesting that they were not only attempting to manipulate Latin American audiences but also presenting an inflated picture of their effectiveness to whoever was supervising them. Dark Clark nevertheless broke further into the real world than any influence operation OpenAI had previously disrupted. Under the Brookings framework, Category Five means that an operation has escaped its original network and been amplified by high-profile individuals such as politicians. Dark Clark crossed that threshold because fabricated narratives appear to have provoked governmental denials, mainstream reporting and political comment in several countries. Its most important innovation was therefore not a particularly convincing deepfake. It was the construction of a partly genuine institution around a concealed foreign controller. The research could be real. The employees could be real. The interviews could be real. What was false was who they were ultimately working for. Sources OpenAI — Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations https://openai.com/index/disrupting-ai-enabled-false-front-operations/ Forbidden Stories — Propaganda Machine: Russia’s foreign influence strategy across three continents https://forbiddenstories.org/propaganda-machine-secret-documents-reveal-russias-foreign-influence-strategy-across-three-continents/ Forbidden Stories — Ghost Journalists, Cash and Kremlin Scripts: Argentina https://forbiddenstories.org/ghost-journalists-cash-and-kremlin-scripts-how-russian-operatives-tried-to-influence-argentinian-media/ openDemocracy — Russian influence operation in Bolivia https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/russia-bolivia-south-america-putin-evo-morales-wagner-prigozhin-covert-operations-propaganda-disinformation-foreign-interference/ Lupa Media — Fake Teleamazonas report about recruiting Ecuadorians for Ukraine https://lupa.com.ec/verificaciones/noboa-mercenarios-ucrania-ecuador/ Brookings Institution — The Breakout Scale https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-breakout-scale-measuring-the-impact-of-influence-operations/ Keywords: #DISINFORMED #Episode17 #OperationDarkClark #DarkClark #Russia #LatinAmerica #RussianInfluence #RussianDisinformation #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #FalseFront #FrontOrganisation #FakeInstitution #SocialResearchCenter #SRC #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #NarrativeManipulation #SourceLaundering #InstitutionalManipulation #ForgedDocuments #FakeAudio #PoliticalInfluence #CovertInfluence #Peru #Ecuador #Bolivia #Argentina #Ukraine #Politology #LaCompania #TheCompany #SVR #WagnerLegacy #PropagandaMachine #GlobalSouth #BreakoutScale #OSINT #MediaManipulation #WRLD

Emanuel Boeminghaus praised Daniel Stelter's appearance on Markus Lanz. He wrote that Stelter had conveyed economic reason and expertise there; the clarity had seemed almost unreal to him. That such arguments appeared like a sensation on German television showed, in his view, how far Germany had strayed from economic normality. Boeminghaus thanked Stelter and recommended watching the show. https://t.co/cLvPHJTWuy #Wirtschaft #ÖffentlichRechtlich #Nachhaltigkeit (translated)

The article by Daniel Vázquez Sallés criticizes the selfish attitude of certain citizens who, despite the storm that hit Catalonia, requested food delivery, putting the lives of the delivery people at risk, which reflects an increasingly complacent and insensitive society. #RidersEnTempestad #SociedadInmoral #CondicionesLaborales (translated)