Blue White Red! wrote that the father of the student who, according to him, had shot the principal and a teacher in Aubagne that morning with a shotgun had been taken into custody for possession of several weapons. He added that the images from the search did not, at first glance, remind him of the typical home of a hunter and that the investigation would provide more details. #Aubagne #violence #arme (translated)
Micka criticized the leniency of the refereeing on Friday night, believing that the images testified to it. He described Ganiou as a future great player, while stating that football was easier when you could do anything on the field. #football #arbitrage #sport (translated)
Rockstar Mag' has released what it claims are the first images of the GTA 6 airship. The account also estimated that the game's marketing campaign, limited to Miami, would cost Rockstar about 150 million dollars, and indicated that six large banners could be deployed as early as this week. https://t.co/BcSQZjRe21 #GTA6 #Gaming #RockstarGames (translated)
Images of panic have emerged from Riyadh airport following a drone and missile attack by the Houthis, resulting in 14 dead and more than 300 injured, while Saudi Arabia promises a severe response. #ArabieSaoudite #AttaquesHouthies #Riyad (translated)
After analysing 1,500 videos and images of the Raila Odinga memorial, Africa Eye finds that those killed were far from the scuffles. #Kenya #PoliceBrutality #RailaOdinga
Stunning images show the devastating fire that destroyed the Enfants-rouges market in Paris. #Paris #Incendie #MarchéDesEnfantsRouges (translated)
After analysing 1,500 videos and images of the Raila Odinga memorial, Africa Eye finds that those killed were far from the scuffles. #KenyaPolice #RailaOdinga #MournersKilled
These images at the very least raise questions (...) police services have the right to use violence but under specific conditions: strict necessity and proportionality. Eight investigations by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) and two by the ethics department of the police prefecture have been opened in Paris since the beginning of the high school mobilization, announced the public prosecutor Laure Beccuau on BFMTV this Monday, October 12. #MobilisationLycéenne #IGPN #Paris (translated)
After analysing 1,500 videos and images of the Raila Odinga memorial, Africa Eye finds that those killed were far from the scuffles. #Kenya #PoliceBrutality #RailaOdinga
Powerful waves from the Pacific have caused major destruction to coastal homes south of Los Angeles, providing stunning images of this disaster. #Vagues #Pacifique #LosAngeles (translated)
Cerfia indicated that Raphaël Glucksmann learned live that he had obtained 66.13% of the votes and won the primary in the first round. https://t.co/eLQz1YX9uC #élections #France #politique (translated)
Més Blaugrana published images from today's training and indicated that Barça had returned to the Ciutat Esportiva after their victory the day before against Getafe. The club had held a recovery session there and started preparing for their next match against Galatasaray in the Champions League, according to the account. https://t.co/GwYmM7h2Kc #FCBarcelona #LigueDesChampions #Entraînement (translated)
There is a problem of efficiency Mobilization of high school students: "There is a problem of efficiency" in the education sector, details David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate Knee strike from a police officer to the face of a young protester: these images "hurt" the police, declares David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate I only believe in individual responsibility Nantes University vandalized: "I only believe in individual responsibility," declares David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate It's unbearable, it's unacceptable Nantes University vandalized: "It's unbearable, it's unacceptable," declares David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate #MobilisationLycéenne #MaintienDeLOrdre #ViolencesPolicières (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
Bally Bagayoko presented the launch of the Hip-Hop and Urban Cultures Festival of the New Town of Saint-Denis–Pierrefitte-sur-Seine as an evening focused on creation, commitment, and hope. He said that the city aimed to maintain a strong cultural ambition despite a difficult political and social context, which weakened local communities and tested cultural policies. He described culture as a right and a means of emancipation, and hip-hop and urban cultures as spaces for expression, encounter, and solidarity. According to him, the evening also allowed for affirming support for the mobilization of high school students on October 17. Bagayoko advocated for a convergence of struggles and generations around social justice, equality, dignity, and access to culture. #HipHop #CulturesUrbaines #SaintDenis #PierrefitteSurSeine #CulturePourToutesEtTous #Jeunesse #ConvergenceDesLuttes #FaireRenaîtreLEspoir #HipHop #CulturesUrbaines #Culture (translated)
A man narrowly escaped a Russian drone strike near Kiev, as shown in footage captured in the village of Sviatopetrivske. #GuerreEnUkraine #DroneRusso #Kiev (translated)
There is a problem of efficiencyMobilization of high school students: "There is a problem of efficiency" in the education sector, details David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate hurtsKnee strike by a police officer to the face of a young protester: these images "hurt" the police, declares David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate I only believe in individual responsibilityNantes University vandalized: "I only believe in individual responsibility," declares David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate It's unbearable, it's unacceptableNantes University vandalized: "It's unbearable, it's unacceptable," declares David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate #MobilisationLycéenne #ViolencePolicière #IGPN (translated)
Actu Foot wrote that José Mourinho and "all of Madrid" celebrated a goal by Vinicius, before it was disallowed and the Brazilian received a red card for pulling a player's hair. https://t.co/mz0U5JDNfQ #Football #RealMadrid #Vinicius (translated)
There is a problem of efficiency Mobilization of high school students: "There is a problem of efficiency" in the education sector, details David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate Knee strike from a policeman to the face of a young protester: these images "hurt" the police, declares David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate I only believe in individual responsibility Nantes University vandalized: "I only believe in individual responsibility," declares David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate It's unbearable, it's unacceptable Nantes University vandalized: "It's unbearable, it's unacceptable," declares David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate #MobilisationLycéenne #RépressionPolicière #Justice (translated)
A police officer's knee to a young protester's face: these images "hurt" the police, declares David Lisnard, president of Nouvelle Énergie and presidential candidate. #Police #Manifestation #DavidLisnard (translated)
