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The Minister of Labour, Rosário Palma Ramalho, stated that the flexibilization of labor regimes in European countries such as Germany and France is a necessary political prudence to address the challenges of artificial intelligence and the transition to the Economy 4.0, emphasizing that Portugal is lagging in this process. #InteligênciaArtificial #Trabalho #Flexibilização (translated)

The author accused the addressee of hypocrisy, saying they had shown no concern for the 400,000 Yemeni civilians the author said had been killed since 2015 by Western-backed Saudi and UAE regimes, or for the more than 70,000 Palestinians the author said Israel had killed since 2023. The author referred to Israel as the addressee’s “like-minded partner.” #Yemen #Palestine #HumanRights #YE #SA #AE #PS #IL

About a hundred personalities from the Basque Country, including descendants of victims of totalitarian regimes, are calling for mobilization against the French Canon banquet scheduled in Biarritz on November 28, denouncing practices of exclusion and discrimination associated with this event. #Mobilisation #Biarritz #CanonFrançais (translated)

The author argued that Putin should not be able to control European bank accounts and said authoritarian regimes should not be allowed to use anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer systems against dissidents, journalists, activists or political opponents abroad. They also said a Russian designation of someone as a terrorist or extremist should not automatically lead to an outcome, but the post did not specify what that outcome was. https://t.co/MzTZ4wRGDf #Putin #AML #HumanRights #EU #RU

Nigeria – how pro-Russian influence networks sell military rule as the answer When Nigerians took to the streets in August 2024 to protest soaring living costs and frustration with government, some demonstrations acquired an unexpected symbol: the Russian flag. In Kano, Kaduna and other northern cities, protesters were filmed carrying Russian colours and calling for Moscow’s intervention. Some demanded a military takeover. What initially looked like an unusual expression of anger has since become part of a much larger picture. A September 2026 assessment by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies describes Nigeria as a major target of overlapping foreign information operations, with Russia the most active external actor in its information space. The report does not identify a single centrally controlled campaign. Instead, it maps an ecosystem in which genuine dissatisfaction over insecurity, corruption and living standards is repeatedly redirected towards a broader proposition: democratic government has failed, while the military-led regimes of the Sahel offer a more effective alternative. Turning a real protest into a pro-Russian message The clearest example emerged during the 2024 #EndBadGovernance protests. Nigerian investigative reporting found that a Kano-based TikTok influencer with more than 100,000 followers had been paid through a Telegram channel associated with African Initiative, a Moscow-based media operation linked by researchers to Russian influence activity in Africa. The influencer said the channel supplied photographs, videos and talking points for redistribution on TikTok and Instagram. Among the messages provided were phrases such as “Putin please come and save Nigeria” and “The army is the answer for Nigeria”. Influencers were encouraged to use Hausa-language hashtags including #Zangazanga – “protest” – alongside references to Putin and Russia. Investigators identified 38 accounts circulating similar pro-Russian and pro-military narratives during the demonstrations. Russian flags subsequently appeared among protesters in several northern cities. This does not mean the protests themselves were created by Russia. They were driven by genuine economic and political grievances, and Nigerian protesters gave different reasons for carrying Russian flags. The important feature of the influence activity was precisely that it did not need to manufacture the original anger. It could attach a geopolitical message to an existing domestic crisis. From frustration to the idea of military government The narrative fits a wider pattern seen across West Africa. Russia has developed close relations with the military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, while pro-Russian media ecosystems routinely portray those states as examples of sovereignty, stability and resistance to Western influence. Nigeria, by contrast, has remained under constitutional civilian government since 1999. Africa Center researchers say information networks targeting Nigerians increasingly contrast these two models. Recurring messages depict elections as wasteful or predetermined, civilian institutions as incapable of protecting citizens and military governments as more decisive on security and development. Some content portrays the Sahelian juntas as delivering better roads, lower prices and stronger security even where available evidence points to continuing or worsening instability. Language is central to the strategy. Hausa is spoken across northern Nigeria and neighbouring Niger, allowing political narratives to travel across borders that are far less important online than they are on maps. HumAngle documented efforts involving Nigerien state-linked actors to cultivate Hausa-speaking journalists and distribute material favourable to Niger’s junta and hostile to France and Western influence. The Russian and Sahelian-junta information ecosystems are not identical, but their narratives frequently reinforce one another. Fake journalists inside real Nigerian media The campaign environment extends beyond social media. A 2026 investigation by Graphika and Code for Africa identified 44 ghost reporters and fake experts whose identities were used to place Russia-aligned narratives in African media. Thirty-eight were assessed with high confidence to be fabricated. Their articles or quotations appeared across 138 websites and were amplified by at least 113 Facebook accounts and Pages. Nigeria was one of the most heavily targeted countries. According to the Africa Center’s analysis of the research, Daily Post Nigeria carried 39 articles involving 14 identified ghost authors. Once published by a genuine Nigerian outlet, such material could then be cited by other websites, social-media accounts or even Russian official channels as though it had originated independently in Africa. This is information laundering rather than simple propaganda: the most valuable asset being borrowed is the credibility of the local newsroom. Generative AI added another layer. OpenAI and Meta separately disrupted a Russia-origin network that produced Africa-focused political content and operated Facebook Pages posing as local media organisations. One fabricated commentator, “Dr Manuel Godsin”, was presented as a European-trained geopolitical expert although investigators found no evidence supporting his academic biography. ChatGPT had been used to generate articles under the persona’s name, while Meta removed 37 Facebook accounts and 29 Pages connected to the broader network. Different networks, similar strategic direction It would be misleading to merge all these activities into a single Russian command structure. The African Initiative-linked influencer campaign, the ghost-reporter network and the AI-enabled operation disrupted by OpenAI and Meta were uncovered separately and used different infrastructure. Public evidence does not demonstrate that every actor reported to the same organisation. What connects them is a recurring set of themes and methods: portraying Western partnerships as exploitative, presenting Russia as an alternative security partner, amplifying failures of civilian government, and giving military-led rule greater legitimacy. Investigative reporting on leaked Russian documents has meanwhile described a much wider influence apparatus operating across Africa, involving political consultants, paid journalists, influencers and locally tailored campaigns intended to reduce Western influence and expand Moscow’s position. The underlying technique is less about inventing dissatisfaction than redirecting it. Nigeria faces real security threats, economic pressure and public frustration. Influence operators do not need to persuade Nigerians that those problems exist. They need only influence the explanation for why they exist – and which political model appears to offer the answer. That is what makes the Nigerian case significant. The most effective propaganda does not necessarily introduce a completely false reality. It takes a real crisis and changes where the audience is encouraged to look for the solution. Sources Africa Center for Strategic Studies — The Raging Information Battle in Nigeria https://africacenter.org/spotlight/the-raging-information-battle-in-nigeria/ Graphika — Umbrae Ex Machina https://www.graphika.com/reports/umbrae-ex-machina OpenAI — Operation “No Bell” https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-no-bell/ TheCable — Ghost reporters in African media https://www.thecable.ng/ghost-reporters-how-fabricated-african-voices-carried-pro-russia-narratives/ HumAngle — Nigeria Is Facing an Information War in Its Own Language https://www.humanglemedia.com/nigeria-is-facing-an-information-war-in-its-own-language DAIDAC / CJID — Russian influence during #EndBadGovernance https://daidac.thecjid.org/how-telegram-tiktok-aided-russian-disinformation-that-led-to-incarceration-of-nigerian-minors/ FactCheckHub — How Nigeria’s hunger protest took a radical turn https://factcheckhub.com/from-economic-protests-to-coup-agitation-how-nigerias-hunger-march-took-a-radical-turn/ News24 — Fake Kremlin-linked analyst planted stories in African media https://www.news24.com/southafrica/news/ai-expert-exposed-fake-kremlin-linked-analyst-planted-stories-in-african-media-20260318-0560 Vanguard — AI ‘expert’ exposed https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/03/ai-expert-exposed-fake-kremlin-linked-analyst-planted-stories-in-african-media/ Africa Confidential — How Moscow wages social media war https://www.africa-confidential.com/article/id/15961/how-moscow-wages-social-media-war Keywords #DISINFORMED #Episode15 #Nigeria #Russia #RussianInfluence #RussianDisinformation #Africa #WestAfrica #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #Propaganda #MilitaryRule #MilitaryGovernment #Democracy #PoliticalManipulation #NarrativeManipulation #AfricanInitiative #EndBadGovernance #Hausa #LocalInfluencers #GhostReporters #FakeExperts #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPersonas #SyntheticMedia #AIPropaganda #Astroturfing #SocialMediaManipulation #Telegram #TikTok #DigitalInfluence #SourceLaundering #NarrativeLaundering #MediaManipulation #Sahel #Geopolitics #OSINT #WRLD

Marcel stated that the French police intervened to prevent the press from filming him committing, according to him, outrages. He felt that this was part of the "normalization of the abnormal," which he associated with authoritarian regimes, and shared a video of Luc Auffret. https://t.co/IwXRuBn2bv #LibertéDeLaPresse #DroitsHumains #Autoritarisme (translated)

Alain Weber praised the Intermarché advertisement and criticized the complaints regarding its lack of diversity. He compared these criticisms to those that would fault a film about Verdun for not showing drones. He wrote that he grew up, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in a town of 4,000 inhabitants where, according to him, there were no Black or Arab people. He described this situation as reflective of rural France at the time, and not as a choice or a scandal. Alain Weber believed that demanding more diversity in an advertisement from that period was akin to retouching a family photo to conform to the standards of 2026. He asserted that he refused to have his history erased and accused the critics of advocating an ideology steeped in hate and ignorance. #Histoire #Identité #Diveristé (translated)

The author stated his desire to end the system that he described as unreadable, with its 42 regimes and incessant reforms that would push back the retirement age. He presented a proposal for a single system eliminating the legal age in favor of only the contribution period, which he called a guarantee of true freedom. https://t.co/nITDE45pCk #Retraite #Réformes #Liberté #FR (translated)

The author claimed that images showing masked law enforcement intervening violently to prevent students from peacefully assembling at their university were only visible in fascist regimes. He then began a sentence about those who remained supportive of the power, without finishing it. #liberté #solidarité #répression #FR (translated)

Reza Pahlavi Communications published a statement that had reportedly been signed by 133 Iranian political prisoners and activists. In it, the signatories thanked the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom for awarding the Freedom Prize 2026 to the Iranian people and for commissioning Prince Reza Pahlavi to accept it. The signatories wrote that during the protests on January 8 and 9, 2026, people had demanded an end to the Islamic Republic and more freedom. Published reports and estimates indicated tens of thousands of deaths and thousands of arrests. They stated that executions continued and death sentences were imposed in part based on confessions coerced under torture and in unfair trials. The authors referred to Reza Pahlavi as their political representative and supported him in leading a transition to a free, democratic Iran. They wrote that the Iranian people should decide on the future form of government in a free vote. They urged governments and international institutions to prevent executions, release political prisoners, and grant independent observers access to prisons. Additionally, they called for an end to business with the Islamic Republic, for a transparent use of frozen Iranian assets to support the freedom movement, and for better access to secure internet, including through Starlink. The letter was dated October 2026. #Iran #Freiheit #Menschenrechte (translated)

Beatrice Rosen criticized the "Macron government" for not denouncing journalists who, according to her, had presented without verification — or perhaps deliberately — a Macronist parliamentary assistant as a high school student facing the government, when he was not. She felt that this validated practices worthy of obscurantist regimes and reinforced the arguments of the Mélenchonists. She described this attitude as counterproductive and dishonest, and called for more intellectual honesty in a climate she described as marked by widespread mediocrity. #journalisme #honnêteté #politique (translated)

"The banning of parties is the symbol of dictatorial regimes," believes Fabien Roussel, PCF candidate for the presidential election, who is reacting to Bruno Retailleau's proposal to ban La France insoumise. #MobilisationLycéenne #MaintienDeLOrdre #DominiqueDeVillepin (translated)

Clear text from Munich wrote that the politician he referred to as "Chancellor of Ukraine" is doing his job excellently and is effectively using German tax money for armament and the support of a corrupt regime. The politician's party stands at 18 percent in Germany and is experiencing a declining trend, wrote the author, who called it war-hungry. In addition, he claimed that the population is being despised in their own country and is still being used to finance a current population exchange. #Kiew #NATO #Putin #Russland #Merkel #BlackRock #Islam #Ukraine #Steuergeld #Kiew (translated)

Nico Lange wrote that Vladimir Putin spoke for 3 hours and 20 minutes during a speech and a moderated stage discussion at the Valdai Forum on October 1, 2026. From his statements, Lange derived five central points of a Russian strategy. According to Lange, Putin portrays Russian aggression as a reaction to Western attacks or provocations. In doing so, he justifies the war of aggression against Ukraine, prepares the population for a prolonged confrontation, and presents Russian escalations as responses. At the same time, in Lange’s estimation, Putin wants a European security order in which Russia can co-determine decisions. This includes, according to the author, a weakening of NATO, especially its eastern flank, political division and economic destabilization of the EU, as well as an expansion of Russian influence in Central and Eastern Europe. Lange wrote that behind Putin's demand for Ukrainian neutrality are the exclusion of NATO and EU membership as well as a Western orientation. Putin also aims for permanent territorial control over large parts of Ukraine and political control over the country. His statements that Ukraine cannot exist independently and is controlled from the outside were interpreted by Lange as an attempt to question its independence and justify Russian influence. According to Lange, Putin also presents a possible Russian escalation, even to the use of nuclear weapons, as a necessary defense. This is intended to deter NATO and European states from a consistent defense of the Baltics and the Baltic Sea region. Lange referred to Kaliningrad, which he described as Europe’s most militarized area, and wrote that a NATO defense could hit air defense, missile sites, and military infrastructure there. Putin depicts the Russian economy as stable and resilient according to Lange, while he does not address the human and economic costs of the war. Lange wrote that Putin sees the economy mainly as a geopolitical pressure tool against Europe, a war resource, and an instrument for maintaining power. Overall, according to Lange, Putin wants to create a European order dominated by Russia, where Ukraine is subjugated and Moscow controls spheres of influence. #Putin #Geopolitik #Ukraine (translated)