Search

As soon as I speak in public, as soon as I write a post on Facebook or Instagram, they come alive and start offending me. It’s a climate of terror. Then there are more traditional systems: microphones and microcameras placed in private spaces, like in the case of Omar Radi, a journalist persecuted for years for his articles on corruption, spied on through a tiny hidden microphone in a chandelier in his home: “As soon as I speak in public, as soon as I write a post on Facebook or Instagram, they come alive and start offending me. It’s a climate of terror.” #tecnooppressione #sorveglianza #dirittiumani (translated)

The author wrote that US researchers had already identified a network of approximately 200,000 suspicious Facebook accounts supporting AfD content in 2019. A large portion of the accounts exhibited typical characteristics of artificial opinion amplification. It remained unclear who had controlled the network. #FakeNews #SozialeMedien #Desinformation #US (translated)

"The Russians attacked a power plant in Kyiv" and "later there were attacks on energy facilities in the Kharkiv region. And all of this happened AFTER the American president made a statement about the energy ceasefire," said Zelensky in a post on Facebook after his conversation with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. #Ukrajina #Zelenski #Rusija (translated)

"The Russians attacked a power plant in Kyiv and later there were attacks on energy facilities in the Kharkiv region. And all this happened AFTER the American president made a statement about the energy ceasefire," Zelensky said in a Facebook post after talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. #Ukrajina #Rusija #energetskoPrimirje (translated)

"For Romania, the stakes are huge. In a Facebook post, Negrescu pointed out that the new proposal provides for a budget of 1.622 trillion euros, at 2025 prices, which is 8% lower than the one initially proposed by the European Commission." #România #BugetUE #FonduriEuropene (translated)

Press Briefs indicated that, according to Ipsos BVA, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella had lost four and three points of popularity respectively in one month. The account then mentioned the anti-Semitic remarks attributed to the president of the National Rally, who denies being the author, and the elements published by Mediapart: testimonies, data extractions from Meta made under the watch of the media and a bailiff, as well as correspondence between Bardella's public posts and private messages from the implicated account. It also mentioned biographical details that reappeared eleven years later, and that, according to him, Bardella was the only one who knew at the time. Press Briefs also reported that, according to Le Canard enchaîné, the content of one of Bardella's Facebook accounts had been completely deleted in recent days, while he claimed that his personal accounts had not existed for a long time. The account described Bardella's reaction as silence and a leap forward, then wondered whether far-right activists would blame him more for his strategy of lies than for the remarks themselves. #politique #antisémitisme #RassemblementNational (translated)

The last scout™ wrote that the people who were supposed to come did not show up to the elections. According to him, his party ended up eighth among ten in Hradec; only SALON REPUBLIKY 21 and Hradecká levice did worse. Jindřich Rajchl received 1,018 votes in the whole of Hradec, according to him. He added that elections are not Facebook. https://t.co/tRLbZkehgA #volby #politika #HradecKrálové (translated)

Szymon Jadczak described the match played at Łazienkowska as humiliating for the Polish league. He wrote that Legia fans learned on this occasion that the club collaborated with the police and officials of Rafał Trzaskowski to harm fans of another team. He accused Dariusz Mioduski, Marcin Herr and other Legia authorities of prioritizing concessions to people who did not want Wisła fans at the match over the principles of sports rivalry. He asked whether such actions could fall under Article 296 of the Penal Code. Jadczak also criticized the president of the PZPN, Cezary Kulesza, accusing him of failing to address a problem that, in his opinion, could have been mitigated by changing and enforcing regulations for three years. He pointed out the lack of guarantees for equal treatment of clubs and poor crisis management by the Ekstraklasa authorities. He also wrote that politicians limited the fight against violence in stadiums to posts on social media, while the services and officials subordinate to them made decisions favorable to the perpetrators. The author accused sports journalists of not verifying information and repeating the Legia’s statement, while a representative from the broadcasting company behaved like a spokesperson for the club instead of seeking the truth. He also criticized Canal Plus for avoiding openly talking about the league's problems. In his opinion, the admiration for Polish football masked its deep issues, which, as he wrote, later reflected in the performance of clubs in European cups and the national team. https://t.co/OE0UzZJ1Em #Ekstraklasa #LegiaWarszawa #Kibice (translated)

This is a big mistake in calculation because deals with dictators are a road to hell. Innocent people die for money from gas and fuel, and the expected fuel will most likely not arrive. The Prime Minister of Estonia clearly commented on the Trump-Putin agreement regarding the supply of Russian fuel. "This is a big mistake in calculation because deals with dictators are a road to hell. Innocent people die for money from gas and fuel, and the expected fuel will most likely not arrive," Michal wrote on Facebook on Saturday. #Estonia #Ukraina #Rosja (translated)

Janoninho stated that Flávio Bolsonaro was appealing to the TSE to try to censor the channel Exército do Lula and accused Meta, the owner of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, of inflating right-wing engagement. According to him, an expert in electoral law admitted that, if an imbalance were proven, Flávio could have his degree revoked in a lawsuit against Meta. Janoninho classified the case as foreign interference in Brazilian elections and said they would not be silenced and would resist. He also stated that Brazil did not fit in anyone's backyard. #CensuraNão #Eleições2024 #LiberdadeDeExpressão (translated)

Zoltán Tanács announced in a Facebook post that the Ministry of Science and Technology has launched an investigation into the luxury expenditures of the National Data Asset Agency, including hotel costs and other suspicious items, and six reports have also been made to monitor the use of public funds. #közpénz #informatika #bűnügy (translated)

The Marvel Nation stated that Flávio Bolsonaro did not want a video to be shared and attributed to him a “terrible” intention against workers. It also asked that the content not be shared on WhatsApp, Instagram, X/Twitter, or Facebook. https://t.co/vb4b0KbnPO #FlávioBolsonaro #Trabalhador #NãoCompartilhe (translated)

Le Canard enchaîné wrote that Jordan Bardella contradicted himself in the case of antisemitic remarks by claiming he had not used Facebook for a long time and could no longer access his old private messages. The weekly magazine assured that the president of the RN had nonetheless logged into one of his personal accounts between September 28 and October 2 in order to delete all data, and described his defense as unconvincing. https://t.co/XC3kgNUm25 #Antisémitisme #JordanBardella #Politique (translated)

"We have reached barbarism, animality: we shoot a human being as if it were a public spectacle. We have gone back ninety years, to the last time a man was hanged in public in the United States. It is truly shameful." With these words, Vincenzo De Luca, in his usual weekly Facebook live address, comments on the decision announced by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whom he referred to as "the slicked-back one." What is happening in the United States with the current ruling group at the helm of the country is pushing the world towards levels of barbarism and loss of fundamental human values that leave us truly shocked." The mayor of Salerno describes the announcement as a return to practices that the United States had abandoned for almost a century, and harshly criticizes the Trump administration: "What is happening in the United States with the current ruling group at the helm of the country is pushing the world towards levels of barbarism and loss of fundamental human values that leave us truly shocked." We will have a political season that will record the further fragmentation of the political landscape of our country. Every election campaign eve sees the birth of new lists, new groupings, all that series of nonsense and hypocrisies that serve simply one purpose: to guarantee a candidacy to as many people as possible – he continues – I happened to particularly observe "Civic Project." I called it "Civic Opportunism": it is a way to try to create spaces for candidacy. That’s all." De Luca then comments on the eve of the Italian electoral season, targeting the political formation promoted by Alessandro Onorato, which continues to gather support even in Campania, including from regional councilors so far close to the former president of the Campania Region: "We will have a political season that will record the further fragmentation of the political landscape of our country. I have been repeating for decades that there is a condition of total anomaly in Italy. When you need to make political choices on major issues (healthcare, transportation, taxation, justice, foreign policy), you can have two different positions, three, four, five hypotheses for solving problems or lines on which to position yourself to tackle the issues. But you can’t have twenty lines of economic policy, twenty healthcare policies, twenty transportation policies." They pretend to contribute to the governance of the country, but in reality, they are great charades and initiatives of opportunism that simply serve to open spaces for the candidacies of a few characters in search of an author." #VincenzoDeLuca #Elezioni #PoliticaUSA (translated)

"We reject it from the start, as it does not take into account the new priorities" "The European Parliament firmly rejects the cuts proposed by the Irish Presidency of the EU Council to the future multiannual budget of the European Union. The negotiation package regarding the future multiannual budget of the European Union, presented today by the Irish Presidency of the EU Council, ahead of the European Council next week, provides for an 8% reduction compared to the initial budget proposed by the European Commission. At the same time, the proposed package does not consider the moderate 10% increase in the budget voted by the European Parliament in April. As the chief negotiator of the European Parliament, I send a clear message: this negotiation position cannot be accepted by Parliament. We reject it from the start, as it does not take into account either the new priorities, such as defense and competitiveness, or the traditional priorities, such as agriculture and cohesion,” said MEP Siegfried Mureșan in a message posted on his Facebook page on Saturday. #BugetEuropean #Irlanda #Romania (translated)