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Chega Açores questioned the Regional Government about the urgent replacement of the inter-island submarine cables, warning that the current infrastructure has already exceeded its lifespan and requires concrete answers and not just new studies or announcements. #Açores #GovernoRegional #Infraestrutura (translated)

Sander Sassen wrote to Kati Piri that the tolerance and inclusion she stood for, in his opinion, meant little as long as hoisting an Israeli flag could have consequences or Jews could not walk the streets in large cities without being recognizable. https://t.co/anFGjSYR9D #Israel #tolerantie #inclusie (translated)

Sophie Binet, Secretary General of the CGT, declares that the government's 2027 budget project sacrifices youth and calls for a general mobilization to demand substantial changes, particularly in light of the elimination of teaching positions and the reduction of funding for education. #Budget2027 #MobilisationJeunesse #CGT (translated)

The District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw has initiated verification proceedings concerning MP Michał Kołodziejczak in connection with media reports about his alleged violent behavior and urging the use of intoxicating substances. #MichałKołodziejczak #PrawoKarne #Prokuratura (translated)

The District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw has initiated verification procedures regarding accusations against MP Michał Kołodziejczak of violent behavior and incitement to use intoxicating substances, to which the politician responded that these are slanders. #Kołodziejczak #prokuratura #polityka (translated)

"strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces and the ability of the Lebanese state to ensure security throughout its territory" Kaja Kallas has already pointed out that the aim of this new mission — supported by Portugal and which should be deployed before the end of the year — is not to replace UNIFIL, which aims to ensure peacekeeping in the country, but rather "to strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces and the ability of the Lebanese state to ensure security throughout its territory." #UniãoEuropeia #SançõesRussas #GuerraNaUcrânia (translated)

UP MAGAZINE NEW YORK CITY :”FROM YALE UNIVERSITY TO FOGGIA: GIORDANO’S MARINA HITS THE WORLD STAGE AT GIO FESTIVAL” SOURCE: https://upmag.com/gio-festival/ FOGGIA (FG) — Lost for 138 years in Yale’s Beinecke Library, Marina by Umberto Giordano — entered for the 1888 Sonzogno Competition and subsequently withdrawn — has been brought back to life thanks to the critical reconstruction by Andreas Gies and Emanuele d’Angelo. Following the concert at the Dal Verme in Milan in February 2026, recorded live by Decca, it received its staged premiere on 5 June at the Teatro Giordano in Foggia, inaugurating the GIO Festival. Sixteen days, seven municipalities of the Capitanata, twenty events spanning opera, jazz, and dance, concluding on 20 June in Piazza Cavour with La Scala’s Andrea Chénier: opera as urban intervention reshaping civic identity and future.

UP MAGAZINE NEW YORK CITY :”FROM YALE UNIVERSITY TO FOGGIA: GIORDANO’S MARINA HITS THE WORLD STAGE AT GIO FESTIVAL” SOURCE: https://upmag.com/gio-festival/ FOGGIA (FG) — Lost for 138 years in Yale’s Beinecke Library, Marina by Umberto Giordano — entered for the 1888 Sonzogno Competition and subsequently withdrawn — has been brought back to life thanks to the critical reconstruction by Andreas Gies and Emanuele d’Angelo. Following the concert at the Dal Verme in Milan in February 2026, recorded live by Decca, it received its staged premiere on 5 June at the Teatro Giordano in Foggia, inaugurating the GIO Festival. Sixteen days, seven municipalities of the Capitanata, twenty events spanning opera, jazz, and dance, concluding on 20 June in Piazza Cavour with La Scala’s Andrea Chénier: opera as urban intervention reshaping civic identity and future.

Lemingopedia accused Donald Tusk's government of publicizing an alleged attack on himself and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz to divert attention from budgetary problems. The author claimed that the information was released in the media before the suspect was detained, and experts commenting on Polsat were unable to identify the procedure used. He characterized this as an action intended to create "alternative realities." The author also referred to Rutkowski's involvement in helping a farmer, to whom he attributed substance use, and ironically suggested that he might have feared the delegalization of Minecraft. He also mentioned the Rubtsov case and the search for four-year-old Eileen at the border, claiming that the girl did not exist. Lemingopedia further reported that on Friday Domański reached an agreement on transferring the supervision of exchanges, clearing houses, and securities depositories to the EU level. According to the author, ESMA was supposed to gain powers, except for full control over the Frankfurt stock exchange, which had been negotiated by Germany and accepted by ministers from other countries. The author accused the government of sending two individuals to divert attention from this matter and used insulting language towards them. https://t.co/8NPL5yAO8g #Polska #polityka #aktualności (translated)

Renato Souza stated that the WhatsApp channel of candidate Flávio Bolsonaro was used to spread disinformation about an event on Avenida Paulista. According to him, a video of a protest in Chile, in which a woman supposedly appeared inhaling a white substance, was published as if it had been recorded in São Paulo. Souza also said that another post presented old images of graffiti and vandalism on the avenue as if they were current. #desinformação #fakeNews #Política (translated)

StagePop reported that internet users questioned the TSE about the removal of the channel "TROPA DO FLÁVIO" after the release of a video that associated a red-haired girl with the use of illegal substances during a supposed Lula rally. According to the publication, the girl was Chilean and the images had been recorded at a demonstration in Chile, but were linked to an event of the Brazilian president. #TSE #LiberdadeDeExpressão #FakeNews (translated)

Ariana Grande's collection stated that Flávio and his group released a video of a woman using alleged illicit substances as if it had been recorded during the demonstration that day on Paulista. According to the author, the video was already circulating the day before and was attributed to Chile. He asked the TSE if the group's channel would also be taken down. https://t.co/O1xRsUt6uW #Desinformação #FakeNews #Manifestações (translated)

Marcin Kierwiński stated that Michał Kołodziejczak must explain himself regarding the allegations of violence and encouraging drug use, and otherwise he will face consequences, emphasizing that party affiliation does not exempt from responsibility. #MichałKołodziejczak #KoalicjaObywatelska #zarzuty (translated)

The author said the quote explained socialism’s electoral success in Spain and elsewhere, arguing that politicians created dependency on the state and that this dependency generated voters. They referred to people relying on government transfer payments, subsidies and social safety nets. #Socialismo #Política #Elecciones #ES

Xico Graziano criticized Lilia Schwacz for a video in which, according to him, the professor said she would use Pix as much as possible because Flávio Bolsonaro could end the system by order of Donald Trump. Graziano classified the statement as false and questioned whether Schwacz knew this or truly believed that a victory for Bolsonaro would leave Brazil subservient to the United States. The author highlighted that Schwacz was a professor of Anthropology at USP, a Global Scholar from Princeton, an award-winning writer, and the owner of the publishing house Cia das Letras. He also stated that she was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in March 2024 for chair 9. Graziano compared the video to her inauguration speech two years earlier, in which, according to him, Schwacz had advocated for the strengthening of institutions and citizenship. Graziano questioned whether the professor had used her prestige to deceive the public and speculated about the reasons for the publication, mentioning the possibility that she had consumed alcohol or was out of touch with reality due to living in an academic bubble. He also associated the episode with what he described as an old ideology of the Brazilian intellectual left, formed in the 1950s and 1960s and still linked to the class struggle. #FakeNews #Cidadania #Antropologia (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