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The U.S. court temporarily prohibited the Trump administration from broadcasting advertising campaigns funded by the Department of Homeland Security, stating that they do not meet the established funding objectives and are illegal political propaganda. #DonaldTrump #JAVteismas #politinepropaganda (translated)

Matthias Fuchs wrote that the attack on Russian data centers causes numerous AfD accounts to disappear. At the same time, he believes that the topic of counter-propaganda is on nobody's agenda in Germany. A hostile power is disrupting the public discourse, without anyone caring about it, he stated. #Propaganda #Deutschland #Datenpolitik (translated)

Katarzyna Pełczyńska wrote that since Thursday, Ukrainians have destroyed three data centers of the Russian Yandex. According to her, the traffic generated by bots linked to Vladimir Putin has dropped to 0.4 percent of the maximum level from the previous two weeks, and there has been a decrease in pro-Russian, pro-Trump, and AfD-supporting content online. Pełczyńska assessed that Ukraine’s actions demonstrated how, by fighting Putin, the country also protected Europe. She wrote that physically removing sources of Russian propaganda turned out to be more effective than centers for combating disinformation and European regulations. She also noted that the decrease in content provided clear evidence of which of them were part of programmed propaganda aimed at undermining European morale, strength, and civilization. In the end, she expressed hope that Ukrainians would also destroy the remaining six Yandex data centers. #Ukraina #dezinformacja #propaganda (translated)

Cristiano Tinazzi argued that disinformation played a central role in hybrid warfare and that its dissemination through a public television program constituted a national problem. He pointed to "In Mezz’ora" on Rai and Gian Micalessin’s reports, stating that in the past the journalist had been in Bashar al-Assad's court to present him as a defender of Christians. Tinazzi also recalled a report on Maidan that, in his opinion, the BBC had termed false: Micalessin had interviewed people presented as Georgian snipers, claiming that the protesters had shot themselves. Tinazzi stated that other freelancers had been excluded from mainstream media for much less, while Micalessin continued to work and move with the Russian occupiers. He linked the situation to the journalist's historical ties with Monica Maggioni, whom he described as his former partner and founder of GM News Produzioni, where Maggioni had been a managing partner. In his view, this created a serious conflict of interest, on which the Rai Supervisory Commission had also taken an interest in 2022. Tinazzi said that one should expect rigor and seriousness from a public television program, and not a showcase for Russian propaganda. He cited an interview by Micalessin with Kostyantyn Suvkov, whom he defined as a representative of ultranationalist and militarist Russian propaganda. According to Tinazzi, that content contributed to polluting information and was part of a psychological warfare operation aimed at terrorizing Western public opinion and weakening military support for Kyiv. #Disinformazione #GuerraIbrida #MediaResponsabili (translated)

Magda wrote that Russia no longer had to activate 150,000 accounts because more and more often her compatriots were carrying out its tasks. She pointed to the portrayal of Ukraine as the enemy, the EU as the occupier, NATO as the provocateur, the West as the source of all evil, and Russia as the state with which one should reach an agreement. She added that propaganda was most effective when it stopped looking like propaganda. #propaganda #Polska #Rosja (translated)

A US judge has prohibited the airing of taxpayer-funded campaign ads for President Trump before the congressional elections after a lawsuit was filed by the watchdog organization Common Cause, which called the ads political propaganda. #TrumpWahlwerbung #USPolitik #Rechtsprechung (translated)

Libertarec described the referendum on RTV as the greatest victory over totalitarians. He wrote that an opposite outcome would also show that half of the nation no longer perceives RTV as their own, but rather as propaganda of the other half, which forces them to pay. He added that this story is over and that everything is now clear. #referendum #totalitarizem #propaganda (translated)

Stepsen wrote that October 11 should henceforth be celebrated in Europe as a public holiday for the liberation of the internet from Russian bots. In his assessment, this would significantly reduce the number of German and European users confronted with Russian propaganda in their timelines, which could facilitate a return to a democratic and fact-based discourse. #Internetfreiheit #Demokratie #FaktenbasierterDiskurs (translated)

The SDS thanked the voters who, in its opinion, understand that their vote is the strongest democratic tool. It stated that the campaign once again demonstrated the influence of propaganda on public opinion. According to its words, some represented the parliamentary investigation of political officials as political police, while the political police in the past resorted to imprisoning, persecuting, and killing people. SDS added that Slovenia has a lot of work ahead for greater resistance to propaganda in order to reach the level of developed democracies. #demokracija #volitve #propaganda (translated)

The author wrote that Ukraine has attacked several Russian data centers and the number of Russian bots on X has sharply decreased as a result. Weakening Russian propaganda is an important war aim for Ukraine; attacks on data centers are just as important as attacks on refineries. #Ukraine #Russland #Propaganda #UA #RU (translated)

Luka Svetina wrote that the turnaround in the referendum on the parliamentary inquiry indicates that the propaganda on March 8 about the alleged "political police" scared the oldest voters, aged 65 and older, which polls seem to suggest. He assessed that the opponent does not choose means, so the coalition should prepare for a similar campaign regarding the intervention law. According to him, they would communicate to voters that retirees would be left without pensions, salaries in the public sector would be reduced, while Blaž Brodnjak would have more money. He wished the coalition good luck. #referendum #politika #upokojenci (translated)