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Tanshi! Hello! Discover algebra through a treasure adventure at Batoche. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H4SGZ6PL The Ants’ Treasure at Batoche: Where the Paths Meet invites children and families in Métis communities to explore mathematics through story, pictures, and discovery. Paywiichaywin! Come with me! Join Mia and Alex near the South Saskatchewan River, where two mysterious ant paths lead to a mathematical surprise. With Mr. Numberwise as their guide, they discover how equations describe paths—and how their meeting point can reveal a treasure. Aen pchi shmayn—a small path—becomes the starting point for a big discovery. This English-language adventure brings visual mathematics into a contemporary Métis setting, with family connections, fiddle music, and details inspired by Métis beadwork and woven sashes. Staircases make slope visible. A treasure map introduces coordinates. Red and blue paths help children understand graphs and intersections. Young learners explore: • linear equations • slope and starting values • coordinates and graphing • intersections of straight lines Memorable visual explanations turn an equation into the recipe for a path, coordinates into the address of a point, and an intersection into the place where two path-stories meet. The book combines colorful illustrations, step-by-step explanations, solved exercises, and practice worksheets. Designed mainly for ages 10–14, it can be enjoyed at home, in classrooms, or with an adult supporting a younger learner. Shipwayhtaytaak! Let’s go! Follow the paths. Find their meeting point. Discover the mathematics behind the treasure. Miina kawaapamitin! See you again! #Michif #MichifLanguage #Métis #MétisCulture #Batoche #SouthSaskatchewanRiver #Saskatchewan #Canada #CanadianKids #IndigenousEducation #FiddleMusic #Beadwork #MétisSash #Ants #TreasureHunt #Adventure #Kids #Happy #HappyEdu #HappyKids #HappyMath #LearningThroughStories #VisualLearning #VisualAlgebra #MathMadeClear #MrNumberwise 20261007_0050 20261007_2343 #0271 20261009_0827 197(122)2 20261009_1835_214(216)2 20261012_0032_674(341)6

Nearly 200 Indigenous candidates—a record—are running in Brazil’s October general elections, many campaigning on environmental protection amid an increasingly conservative political landscape in which agribusiness interests wield significant influence https://t.co/VtT6fL7GLc #IndigenousCandidates #BrazilElections #EnvironmentalProtection #BR

Russia’s fake African newsrooms – propaganda designed to look local A Facebook user in Nairobi, Accra, Johannesburg or Luanda encounters what appears to be a local news page. It publishes stories about African politics, Western influence and relations with Russia. The language is tailored to an African audience and the page presents itself not as a foreign broadcaster, but as part of the local information landscape. Behind some of these outlets, however, Meta found operators based in Russia. In its 2026 threat research, the company disclosed a Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour network targeting audiences in Angola, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. Meta removed 37 Facebook accounts and 29 Pages connected to the operation. Around 30,000 users followed at least one of the Pages, while the operators spent approximately $7,000 on Facebook and Instagram advertising, mostly in euros and US dollars. The numbers are relatively modest. The method is considerably more important. Rather than openly distributing Russian state messaging, the network posed as local African news sources and grassroots organisations, promoting narratives about Western colonialism and political interference while presenting Russia as a credible economic and political alternative. It was an old geopolitical message delivered through a much more effective identity: not Moscow speaking to Africa, but Africans apparently speaking to one another. A news outlet that was actually an influence operation Meta's investigation found that the network attempted to conceal its Russian origin while creating media brands that appeared indigenous to the countries they targeted. Its content amplified historical grievances against former colonial powers, criticised Western involvement in Africa and promoted closer relations with Russia. One example helps illustrate how the infrastructure was assembled. A Facebook Page targeting Kenya was called Kenya Watchtower. According to OpenAI's subsequent investigation, Facebook transparency records showed that the Page had previously been named “Farmtown5”. It appears to have been acquired or repurposed rather than built from scratch as a Kenyan news organisation. Some Pages also exposed administrator locations in Russia and Ukraine. Other elements of the network had previously targeted audiences in Zambia and Namibia. This use of apparently local identities is particularly important in the African information environment. A story published by RT or another identifiable Russian outlet arrives with an obvious geopolitical provenance. The same narrative presented by something resembling an independent Kenyan, Ghanaian or South African newsroom carries a different kind of credibility. The source appears closer to the reader, and the geopolitical interest behind the message becomes less visible. Then investigators found Dr Manuel Godsin The Facebook operation was only one part of a broader information ecosystem. OpenAI investigated related activity after receiving information from Meta and subsequently banned a ChatGPT account it assessed as likely originating in Russia. OpenAI called the campaign Operation No Bell. The account was being used to generate long-form articles and social-media posts about African geopolitics. Prompts were primarily written in English, but OpenAI also observed Russian-language instructions that the user described as coming from a manager. The operator sometimes explicitly asked the model to make the material appear less AI-generated – including requests to avoid stylistic features associated with machine-generated text and to write more like a human journalist. Many articles appeared under the name “Dr Manuel Godsin”, presented as an academic with a PhD from the University of Bergen and an affiliation with an organisation called the International Centre for Political and Strategic Studies. OpenAI could find no credible evidence that Godsin existed. Searches of Norway's National Research Information Repository and the University of Bergen library produced no record of him. Investigators subsequently discovered that a photograph used to represent Godsin had appeared years earlier on a Russian professional networking site and apparently belonged to a law student in St Petersburg. The fabricated academic identity was nevertheless remarkably productive. OpenAI identified 53 online articles carrying the Godsin byline. The fiction had moved beyond fake social-media pages and into the real media ecosystem. When propaganda enters genuine newsrooms This is the most consequential aspect of the operation. The articles were not confined to websites controlled by the influence network. Some were published by genuine African news organisations, including established South African outlets. The content mixed local political issues with broader geopolitical narratives. Some pieces criticised the United States and Britain or defended Russia's role in Africa. One accused the British NGO Crisis Action of fomenting protests in South Africa. Another praised Russia's presence in the Central African Republic. Other material addressed Kenya, Angola and relations between African governments and Washington. The mechanism represents a significant evolution from the classic troll-farm model. Instead of building an audience entirely on its own platforms, an influence operator can manufacture an apparently credible expert, generate articles in his name and persuade genuine news organisations to publish them. Once this happens, the propaganda acquires something a fake Facebook Page cannot provide: the institutional credibility of a real newsroom. OpenAI assessed No Bell's social-media impact as limited. One Facebook Page had around 3,000 followers before Meta removed it, while several others had very small audiences. But the operation was more successful in placing material in established media. In OpenAI's impact framework, it approached the level at which an influence operation breaks into mainstream media. For information operators, a single article published by a recognised outlet can potentially be more valuable than thousands of impressions generated by an obviously artificial account. A much larger network of ghost journalists Subsequent research suggests that Manuel Godsin was not an isolated experiment. In August 2026, Graphika, working with Code for Africa and with support from Meta, published a much broader investigation into Russian ghostwriting operations across African media. Researchers identified 44 ghost writers and fake experts, 38 of them assessed as high-confidence fabricated personas, operating between 2021 and 2026. Their material appeared or was quoted across 138 websites and was subsequently republished through at least 113 Facebook accounts and Pages, including authentic users, coordinated inauthentic networks and official Russian communication channels. The narratives were strikingly consistent. They included criticism of France, Ukraine and the United States; attacks on organisations such as ECOWAS and the International Criminal Court; positive portrayals of Russian involvement in Africa; praise for Russian paramilitary forces; and support for sovereignty-oriented political projects such as the Alliance of Sahel States. The operation therefore extends beyond creating fake news websites. It attempts to insert Russian-aligned narratives into the legitimate African media ecosystem using identities that appear African, independent or academically authoritative. This also explains why measuring reach through the original Facebook network alone is misleading. A fabricated article may begin with an influence operator, appear in a genuine African publication, be republished elsewhere and eventually circulate without any visible connection to Russia. At that point, the provenance of the narrative has effectively been laundered. An old Russian strategy with increasingly local faces Russia's use of local intermediaries in Africa is not new. Meta documented Russian networks using African nationals as early as 2019. In 2020 it dismantled another operation involving people in Ghana and Nigeria working on behalf of individuals in Russia, with links to previous activity associated with the Internet Research Agency. More recent Meta investigations suggest that this model has continued to evolve. Networks have increasingly relied on local freelancers, social-media managers and authentic media outlets rather than exclusively operating armies of obviously fake Russian-controlled accounts. This decentralisation offers several advantages. Local operators understand language, political sensitivities and cultural references. Authentic accounts are harder to identify than newly created synthetic personas. Local media brands can also deliver narratives without immediately triggering the scepticism associated with Russian state outlets. There is no evidence that every African journalist, freelancer or publication carrying such material knowingly participates in Russian influence activity. Meta explicitly notes in its investigations that some local contractors may not know who ultimately commissioned their work. That distinction is essential. The operation's effectiveness partly depends on precisely this ambiguity between deliberate participation, commercial content placement and unwitting amplification. The objective is to make Russian narratives look African The significance of this network is therefore not its 30,000 Facebook followers or its $7,000 advertising budget. Those figures are small compared with the audiences of major African media organisations. What matters is the distribution model. Traditional foreign propaganda asks an audience to trust a foreign source. These operations attempt to remove the foreign source from the equation altogether. A Russian geopolitical narrative can be generated with AI, attributed to an expert who does not exist, published by a media organisation that does, amplified through a Facebook Page presenting itself as local, and then rediscovered elsewhere as apparently independent African analysis. By the time the reader encounters it, Moscow may have disappeared completely from the chain of attribution. The resulting information operation is therefore less about making Russian propaganda more persuasive than about making it look as though it is no longer Russian propaganda at all. In an increasingly fragmented African media environment, that may be the more important evolution to watch. SOURCES: Meta Threat Research https://threatresearch-team.github.io/indicators/meta-h1-2026-russia-based-cib-network-1/ OpenAI — Operation “No Bell” https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-no-bell/ Graphika — Umbrae Ex Machina https://www.graphika.com/reports/umbrae-ex-machina News24 https://www.news24.com/southafrica/news/ai-expert-exposed-fake-kremlin-linked-analyst-planted-stories-in-african-media-20260318-0560 Vanguard https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/03/ai-expert-exposed-fake-kremlin-linked-analyst-planted-stories-in-african-media/ Meta — Russian Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour, 2019 https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/removing-more-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-from-russia/ Meta — Russian Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour, 2020 https://about.fb.com/news/2020/03/removing-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-from-russia/ Meta Threat Research — Russian Use of Authentic Operators in Sub-Saharan Africa https://threatresearch-team.github.io/indicators/meta-h2-2025-russia-based-cib-network-2/ KEYWORDS: #DISINFORMED #Episode7 #Russia #Africa #RussianDisinformation #RussianInfluence #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #CoordinatedInauthenticBehaviour #CIB #FakeNews #FakeMedia #FakeNewsrooms #MediaImpersonation #GrassrootsManipulation #Astroturfing #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPropaganda #SyntheticMedia #FakeInfluencers #SocialMediaManipulation #Facebook #Meta #OperationNoBell #AfricanMedia #MediaManipulation #Propaganda #DigitalInfluence #Angola #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica #OSINT #WRLD

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Senior Iranian source to me: “Monday's meeting in Oman is part of Iran's strategic and responsible plan to foster trust among regional nations and lay the groundwork for consolidating indigenous security.” “However, this agreement does not imply an automatic reopening of #Iran #Oman #MiddleEastDiplomacy #US #IR

On the International Day of Indigenous Women and Girls, we celebrate their vital role in keeping Indigenous languages alive. As lead agency for the @ILDecade, @UNESCO honors their leadership. Watch Indigenous activist Hélène Boivin's inspiring interview: https://t.co/BBSI9XIknT https://t.co/RvJwdvNlU9 #IndigenousWomen #LanguagePreservation #UNESCO #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

🎬 A must-watch documentary on how militarism, extractivism & technology turn entire regions into intoxicated pacified fiefdoms for exploitation. Palestine and every Indigenous people resisting, are crushed the same way. https://t.co/N7HXRJ02jj https://t.co/6V2StnZahx #Documentary #Militarism #IndigenousRights #PS

Climate policy can’t afford to ignore Indigenous knowledge. 🚨 #Mongolia's herders are seeing land degradation firsthand & warning that mining, infrastructure & water extraction must be part of the conversation. At @Cop17Mongolia they call for inclusion 👇https://t.co/LRR75WFmfJ #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimatePolicy #LandDegradation #MN

Multiculturalism or Liberalism… You Can’t Have Both Canada’s Combating Hate Act received royal assent on June 18 and became law in July, defining hatred as an intense and extreme emotion and extending emotion’s reach into government and criminal law. Supporters cite a 169% rise in reported hate crimes from 2018 to 2024, but the increase reflects predictable outcomes when groups with deep historical, cultural, and religious conflicts are placed together in large numbers while assuming differences will fade. “Diversity is our strength” can’t replace shared culture: cooperation at scale requires shared values and norms. Import enough difference quickly while demanding universal tolerance, and social order begins to fracture, leaving strangers who share a passport but little else—so the state steps in to do what culture once did. Multiculturalism can drift toward authoritarianism: the state expands to manage conflicts, neutrality becomes impossible without common standards, and unequal treatment follows. Britain illustrates the danger, with thousands of arrests in 2023 under communications laws for alleged offensive messages and long sentences for single posts. Meanwhile, authorities have shown hesitation toward major crimes involving protected communities, often citing fears of racism and community harm—creating a double standard. Canada also has examples, such as the Gladue principles, which require sentencing judges to consider the circumstances of Indigenous offenders, letting group identity influence state treatment. The multicultural liberal state was sold as open, tolerant, and equal—but if groups won’t “melt,” or fundamentally oppose one another, the result is increasingly unequal laws, more surveillance, and less liberty. Multiculturalism and liberalism are incompatible: without shared cultural standards, a society will be governed from above through laws, courts, and coercion.

#Indigenous Peoples & local communities receive less than 2.7% of global climate finance. 🚨 @ThEnergyPioneer spoke with @coolearth about their work with community-driven conservation, renewable energy & the future of #rainforest protection Read it now 👇 https://t.co/cbVKghhJMa https://t.co/HIh9zDvrTv #ClimateFinance #IndigenousRights #RainforestConservation #Thetweetdoesnotspecificallymentionanycountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

The South American hipster language cooler than Spanish — Some 90% of Paraguay understands the now trendy Guaraní and nearly 40% speak the indigenous language daily at home alongside Spanish. That is one of the highest rates of bilingualism in the world https://t.co/1UBmvyxhzf #Guaraní #Bilingualism #Paraguay #PY

In some Eastern European countries, indigenous populations came close to becoming a minority as a result of ethnic cleansing, forced Russification, and resettlement policies. Welcoming migrants, perceived as another version of forced change, does not sell https://t.co/ltBMQiuwLe #EasternEurope #EthnicCleansing #MigrationPolicy #EE #RU

This #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we celebrate Indigenous midwives and the knowledge they preserve. “When we attend a birth, we help the community pass on its knowledge,” says Martha, a Kichwa midwife from Ecuador 🇪🇨. Read: https://t.co/0egXDyqdvA https://t.co/v2ewNQlsnn #IndigenousPeoplesDay #midwives #knowledge #EC

Indigenous Peoples are guardians of cultural heritage, stewards of vital ecosystems & crucial contributors to our shared future. Yet across the globe, they face disproportionate threats. Their individual & collective rights must be respected. On #IndigenousDay, and every day. https://t.co/XKerxiSXto #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalHeritage #RightsRespect #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.