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ArbitraI wrote that Aldair Fuentes, former player of Alianza Lima, had been sent off against Cusco FC after an aggression that he deemed very obvious against Jairo Velez. He added that the episode seemed "a bit curious" to him. https://t.co/OqfzzAPRmm #Fútbol #AlianzaLima #Deportes (translated)

Pau listened to Wings and wrote that, after traveling to other countries to attend concerts, he considered respect, tolerance, and a good attitude essential. He said that at the concerts in Lima, he had seen many foreign women and that 99% had been kind, but that on the second day he was near a woman who, he recounted, showed displeasure when the audience sang or mentioned Peru. As an example of how he understood the local emotion, he recalled that in Mexico he had joined in the chant "J-Hope, brother, you are already Mexican," even though he was not Mexican. He also stated that the woman, who was Latina, ended up saying that the tour was not for Latin America. Pau listened to Wings requested that those visiting another country respect the emotions of the people who were seeing their favorite artists at home. #Respeto #Tolerancia #Conciertos (translated)

Pedro Emanuel stated that the team would have to change their attitude to face Boca Juniors in Argentina, in a different competition and in the first of two matches. He mentioned that the opponent had also made changes to their team the day before and had not won, having been close to losing, but he highlighted Boca's quality and their ambition to be Argentine champions. The coach acknowledged that his team had not played well and would need to do more to be competitive and fight for the result. However, he added that the team could have a less successful performance and that he expected to reach a high level on Tuesday, thanks to physical, technical, tactical, and mental preparation. #Futebol #Competições #BocaJuniors (translated)

The Cruzmaltina Arena reported, based on Venê Casagrande, that Brenner had been listed for the match against Boca Juniors in the semifinals of the Copa Sul-Americana. The photo was credited to Matheus Lima, from Vasco. https://t.co/AACqdV7blc #CopaSulAmericana #BocaJuniors #Futebol (translated)

Santos FC recalled that, 64 years ago, they defeated Benfica 5 to 2 at the Estádio da Luz, in front of over 70,000 people, and won the world for the first time. The club stated that the team had already won the first leg 3 to 2 at Maracanã. According to Santos, the team took the field with Gylmar, Olavo, Mauro, Calvet, Dalmo, Zito, Lima, Dorval, Coutinho, Pelé, and Pepe. Pelé scored three goals, Coutinho scored one, and Pepe netted the other. The club stated that this achievement made Santos the first Brazilian team to conquer the world and thanked the players who participated in the feat. #SantosFC #Pelé #Futebol (translated)

Planeta do Futebol reported that, after an unfavorable court decision, the Fla-Flu Consortium asked the court to reject a new appeal from Vasco regarding ticket sales for the match against Boca Juniors. The concessionaire stated that the club should assume the risks of having sold tickets while the injunction could still be suspended. The Consortium argued that the appeal had lost its object due to the proximity of the deadline and that it repeated already rejected arguments. It advocated for the match to be held at Nilton Santos Stadium and stated that there would still be time to reorganize the event. According to the publication, Vasco urgently requested reconsideration of the suspension and claimed that it had begun sales for Maracanã after receiving court authorization. The club argued that the capacity of Nilton Santos, which is 44,661 people, was less than the 46,014 tickets sold, which would require cancellations and refunds. It also pointed out the need to accommodate 4,000 visiting fans and maintain separation areas between the supporters. The appeal from Vasco and the statement from the Fla-Flu Consortium were awaiting analysis from Judge Suely Lopes Magalhães, reported Planeta do Futebol, based on ESPN Brazil. #Vasco #Maracanã #Futebol (translated)

The Football Planet reported that Cauan Barros, from Vasco, was admitted to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro after a car accident. According to initial information cited by the PodCruzmaltino profile, the player suffered a deep cut on his left foot and was receiving medical attention. https://t.co/n0Jst3xOdf #Vasco #CauanBarros #Acidente (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

The cat account saw BTS share Jimin's reaction during the ARMY Peru project. As he recounted, the singer greeted Lima and said that day was the last performance day for the group in Peru. After hearing them sing "Happy Birthday," he thanked them for the gesture and expressed his affection. Jimin also mentioned that feeling moved by the welcome, support, and affection from the Peruvian audience had made them happy. He added that the group would travel to another country, but that they would not forget the love received from the other side of the world, and expressed his hope to see his fans again. #Jimin #ARMY #BTS (translated)

Jimin wrote that the stadium in Lima had turned yellow, described the scene as very beautiful, and thanked everyone who raised the banner. He said that day would be remembered forever and posted the phrase "JIMTOBER IN PERU." https://t.co/MA9CU6nR8m #Lima #Gratidão #JIMTOBER (translated)

The BTS account ⟭⟬ BRAZIL⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ reported that women sang "Happy Birthday" to Jimin during his speech at a concert in Lima. According to the post, the singer's birthday would be on Tuesday, the 13th of the following week. #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_LIMA #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_LIMA_D3 https://t.co/xrlffZIbXX #BTS #Jimin #Kpop (translated)

SPACE LIBERDADE stated that the party NOVO's bench in 2027 would have, in the Senate, Deltan Dallagnol (PR), Marcel Van Hattem (RS), and Lahesio Bonfim (MA). For the Chamber of Deputies, it listed Marina Helena (SP), Adriana Ventura (SP), Luiz Lima (RJ), Jeffrey Chiquini (PR), Guilherme Kilter (PR), Paulo Martins (PR), Henrique Mecabô (PR), Felipe Camozzato (RS), Gilson Marques (SC), and Eduardo Moura (PE). #PartidoNovo #Eleições2027 #PolíticaBrasileira (translated)

Vasco da Gama reported that today's edition of the Vasco magazine was a special Children's Day issue and stated that the quantity was limited, recommending that readers arrive early to secure a copy. The publication also mentioned VascoMics and credited the photo to Matheus Lima. #VascoDaGama https://t.co/ImDRChoIV4 #DiaDasCrianças #VascoDaGama #RevistaVasco (translated)

The Planet of Football reported that a decision by Judge Suely Lopes Magalhães suspended the injunction that required the Fla-Flu Consortium to release Maracanã for Vasco vs. Boca Juniors, for the semifinal of the South American Cup. According to the publication, the legal dispute continued. The judge reportedly understood that Marco Antônio Ibrahim could not alone review the decision of the rapporteur Alexandre de Carvalho Mesquita and that the appeal should be analyzed by the rapporteur himself or by a panel. She also reportedly pointed out the risk of having three rival fan bases in the same area, as Flamengo vs. Botafogo, for basketball, would be held that evening at Maracanãzinho. According to the report, Suely cited a report from BEPE that deemed Nilton Santos suitable to host the match and stated that the police's preference for Maracanã did not make its use indispensable for safety. The decision, the publication added, did not determine whether Vasco had the right to the stadium nor whether the consortium's refusal was legitimate. The writ of security would be forwarded to rapporteur Joaquim Domingos de Almeida Neto, and the decision would be submitted to the Special Body of TJ-RJ. The publication attributed the information to the newspaper O Globo. #Maracanã #Vasco #Justiça (translated)

The news profile newscolina reported that Bruno Duarte would be rested against Remo but would travel normally to Argentina, where he would face Boca Juniors. The publication attributed the information to Venê Casagrande. https://t.co/6D5bEBkGzi #Futebol #BrunoDuarte #BocaJuniors (translated)

The news column wrote that Pedro Emanuel considered the game against Remo fundamental to alleviate the pressure of the relegation battle. According to the publication, Bruno Duarte was still a doubt to start among the starters, while the Portuguese coach was expected to field his best available formation. The probable lineup for Vasco was Léo Jardim; Paulo Henrique, Saldivia, Robert Renan, and Cuiabano (Lucas Piton); Sosa, Thiago Mendes, and Lescano; Andrés Gómez, David (Bruno Duarte), and Colidio. The publication cited ge.globo and credited the photo to Matheus Lima. #Vasco #Futebol #Rebaixamento (translated)