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Pasquale Guarro reported that Luciano Spalletti had downplayed the argument with Pisacane after Cagliari-Juventus. Spalletti said he had complimented him on the game, adding that the team also knew how to waste time. After Pisacane had asked him what he meant, the referee had sent both off; Spalletti had described the episode as normal. https://t.co/yYU00iDhFF #Cagliari #Juventus #Calcio (translated)

Che Tempo Che Fa wrote that Marco Mengoni performed live on the show with his latest single, "Giornate perse." The post also included lines where the singer talked about staying alone in line and pretending that nothing had happened. #CTCF https://t.co/iZWTwYOJtV #MarcoMengoni #GiornatePerse #CTCF (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

The European Union will limit imports of Chinese hybrid vehicles to 350,000 units per year starting from December 1, with an annual increase of 6% in the following years, as part of a political agreement to avoid trade tensions with Beijing. #UnioneEuropea #VeicoliIbridi #Cina (translated)

Max Verstappen, after his victory in Singapore, which finally broke the curse of the circuit, is motivated to focus on immediate successes in the remaining races of the season, without worrying about his position in the world championship. #MaxVerstappen #Formule1 #SingaporeGP (translated)

The author wrote, citing Rainews, that in March 2022 President Volodymyr Zelensky and the National Security and Defense Council had suspended and then banned 11 political parties deemed linked to Russia or pro-Russian. https://t.co/QLfvKYfDfR #Ucraina #Politica #Zelensky #UA #RU (translated)

You can also think about greatly expanding the coalition in order to try to win, but you risk creating a political project that wins but then melts away like snow in the sun. "You can also think about greatly expanding the coalition in order to try to win, but you risk creating a political project that wins but then melts away like snow in the sun. It has already happened in the center-left,” warns Conte, who saw his second government fall precisely at the hands of the former Rottamatore. #Politica #Centrosinistra #EllySchlein (translated)

Majakovsk has defined Trump’s “disaster” as even more serious, claiming that the U.S. Treasury could not use a license to circumvent the federal law that prohibited imports from Russia. He added that any potential policy change would require a 30-day advance notice to Congress and that, in his view, Russian ships would not be able to clear goods and would remain in port without unloading them. The author criticized the political class, accusing it of acting without respecting the rules and of not knowing them. Regarding the tanker headed for the United States, he stated that it probably carried fertilizer, perhaps urea, and not diesel: he specified that no data on the cargo was available and that confirmation would only come upon docking. He also argued that the timing did not match and that in the past tankers had already transported fertilizer instead of oil. Finally, Majakovsk predicted a sharp decline in pro-Russian bots on X. While acknowledging that there was no circumstantial evidence of farm bots on Yandex, he claimed that state control was so strong that their presence was “practically certain.” According to him, the disruption of bots and services on Yandex would likely have made many accounts on the platform less active as well. #Trump #Russia #Politica (translated)

The Prosecutor's Office of Belluno is evaluating the request for dismissal for the pediatrician involved in the death of a two-year-old girl, who died after being discharged from the emergency room, as a causal link between the doctor's conduct and the death has not been demonstrated, despite the diagnosis of pneumococcal meningitis emerging later. #Meningite #Belluno #Medici (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

Marco M.M. wrote that his profile, dedicated to meteorology, would continue to deal with the weather, but that he wanted to share a personal reflection after facing a significant health issue in the previous weeks. He recounted having lived through difficult days and new fears, an experience that, according to him, made him reevaluate everyday things and the importance of paying attention to the difficulties of others. He added that his private messages were open to anyone who needed to talk and that, while he did not have solutions for every problem, he was available to listen. He concluded by inviting people to take care of themselves and those close to them, specifying that in the next post he would return to discussing meteorology. #Vita #Ascolto #Gratitudine (translated)

Renate Holzeisen wrote that Trump had in fact politically sidelined Volodymyr Zelensky, a step that, according to her, should have been taken much earlier. She argued that the war had caused the deaths of many young people, destroyed families, made Ukraine lose territories and heritage, and caused costs and economic damage to European citizens. She also stated that the European supporters of continuing the conflict would have wanted to prolong it, while its outcome would have shown, in her opinion, the consequences of the irresponsible use of Ukraine for geopolitical plans that she had described as a declaration of war against Russia from the very beginning. #Ucraina #Guerra #Politica (translated)

In the barometer of potential successors to Emmanuel Macron, Jordan Bardella (33%) and Marine Le Pen (32%) remain significantly in the lead, but lose 3 and 4 points respectively, while Mediapart has published antisemitic messages attributed to the president of the RN in the last two weeks, who denies being the author. #EmmanuelMacron #popularité #sondage (translated)

The diplomatic-commercial success of Dmitriev, in turn, gives an advantage to the Kremlin clan more inclined to dialogue with the US, compared to the pro-Chinese "hawks" who, according to Russian opposition analyst Abbas Gallyamov, were urging Putin to confront. #Ucraina #Putin #Trump (translated)