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BTS Daily Chile⁷ called on ARMY from around the world to report an account and its posts. It noted that the Instagram profile was deactivated, but could be reactivated soon. It also specifically asked ARMY Chile to privately send verifiable information about the person or people responsible, to forward it to BIGHIT MUSIC. It recommended not to post personal data or accusations on social media and to send only information backed by evidence. Additionally, it indicated that a form had been made available to receive relevant information about leaks. #ARMY #BIGHIT #Denuncia (translated)

The BTS Project Brazil stated that leftist publications faced a possible wave of censorship on social media in recent weeks, especially on TikTok and also on X. According to the profile, videos with allegations and information of public interest received warnings for unverified content. The profile mentioned that some of the videos dealt with alleged crimes attributed to a presidential candidate and his supporters, as well as the fire at UFPE and behaviors it classified as violent by people linked to the right during peaceful protests organized by the left. It questioned why this type of content received warnings and encouraged followers to share, download, and repost the videos. The publication included the hashtags #FandomsNoMasp, #FandomsComLula, and #ArmysComLula. #FandomsNoMasp #FandomsComLula #ArmysComLula #Censura #LiberdadeDeExpressão #Democracia (translated)

Lia Bencivenga said she had not followed and did not want to follow a program she considered dishonest. Commenting on the discussions about the so-called Dossier K, she argued that its contents were verifiable in the SITs of the cited individuals and that even Stasi's defense had had suspicions about the Kappa family, without this constituting a crime. Bencivenga added that the dossier and the numerous emails sent to the Prosecutor's Office were on record and that nothing had been hidden. She then wondered why the person she called "Miss FBI" was so interested in knowing the author of the dossier, while, according to her, she showed no interest in the concealment of decisive results attributed to the RIS of Garofano and another involved person. She also criticized that person's reaction to the "personal consulting," which, in her opinion, had been found in the RIS files even though it had never been requested, submitted, or signed. Finally, Bencivenga criticized four people who were following that case, claiming that they had poor critical reading skills and were attracted to malice and meanness. She asked the person called "Miss FBI" if she checked the documents before becoming indignant. #mostri #garlasco #dossierK #giustizia (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

Let's talk about vulnerable subjects – continues Grossi, who signed the note along with lawyers Vita Maria Ippolito, Riccardo Marceca, Vito Livadia, and Salvatore Accardo – entrusted to a healthcare system that turned out to literally be a hell on earth. An nightmare occurred for 3,000 people: some woke up and had nothing, some did not wake up because they died, and about 300 people had a tumor that no one diagnosed in time. A year of silence that led the lawyers of the patients' families to write a very harsh note: “Let's talk about vulnerable subjects – continues Grossi, who signed the note along with lawyers Vita Maria Ippolito, Riccardo Marceca, Vito Livadia, and Salvatore Accardo – entrusted to a healthcare system that turned out to literally be a hell on earth. An nightmare occurred for 3,000 people: some woke up and had nothing, some did not wake up because they died, and about 300 people had a tumor that no one diagnosed in time.” #Giustizia #SanitàPubblica #Trapani (translated)

Complaints about the use of funds from the State Pact against Gender Violence have focused on activities unrelated to its objective, such as laughter therapy workshops and baked goods, which has led the Government to strengthen the control and verification of these funding sources. #ViolenciaDeGénero #Igualdad #Transparencia (translated)

"We felt it very strongly. It knocked some things down in the kitchen, but we are fine, even though we are very scared," 60-year-old Rosendo Domínguez, from the province of Herrera where the earthquake occurred, told the Associated Press by telephone. #Terremoto #Panama #Tsunami (translated)

The prosecutor's office of Larino has ordered a computer search at the Classical High School of Campobasso as part of the investigation into the poisoned death of the Di Vita sisters, to check for any searches for ricin on the school's computers. #MorteAvvelenate #Ricina #Perquisizione (translated)

Bonheur Muamba called on Lord Chris to demonstrate consistency and not distort the facts by supporting the regime. He wrote that public payments should, in his view, be based on certified documents and rigorous controls, including the verification of compliance lists, and not on mere online statements. He added that promoting national entrepreneurship did not justify the automatic validation of claims. He asserted that the rule of law desired by President Félix Tshisekedi also applied to the economy and that the Deputy Prime Minister of Economy, Daniel Mukoko Samba, was simply applying the law, which required an audit, verification, and compliance certification before any payment. Muamba also stated that equality before the law concerned all oil operators and urged his interlocutor to adhere to Congolese laws rather than what he termed social media blackmail. #RDC #Économie #Droit (translated)

The seriousness of the events reported by the media has necessitated the initiation of the necessary inspections by the ministry, in order to ascertain whether during the initiatives in question politically or ideologically incompatible positions with a proper educational function have actually been expressed. During the question time in the Chamber, Valditara explained: “The seriousness of the events reported by the media has necessitated the initiation of the necessary inspections by the ministry, in order to ascertain whether during the initiatives in question politically or ideologically incompatible positions with a proper educational function have actually been expressed.” I asked the competent offices to verify the educational reasons that led to the decision to waive the regional school calendar and their compatibility with the regulations. On X, Valditara wrote: “I asked the competent offices to verify the educational reasons that led to the decision to waive the regional school calendar and their compatibility with the regulations.” #Scuola #GiuseppeValditara #Ispettori (translated)

Abelardo De La Espriella said he was continuing, along with the Metropolitan Police of Barranquilla, the investigation into the installation of a flag and cylinders referring to the ELN in Barranquilla and Soledad. He reported that the Police, in coordination with the Prosecutor's Office, captured during a raid alias Kleiver, a member of Los Costeños, who had an outstanding arrest warrant for qualified and aggravated theft. According to De La Espriella, the investigation identified him as the driver of the vehicle used to transport the items. De La Espriella pointed out that the first items were found early in the morning in Ciudadela 20 de Julio, in Barranquilla, and that hours later they found two more cylinders in a parking lot near the Soledad Transportation Terminal. He added that the inspected items did not contain explosives. He affirmed that the operation was ongoing to locate the vehicle and another person who, according to the investigation, participated in the events. He also said that General Sandra Liliana Rodríguez was leading the verifications. De La Espriella maintained that the State should act in a coordinated manner, together with the Public Force, the Prosecutor's Office, and the judiciary, against those he described as narcoterrorists. He said that, while he was president, he would not allow Colombians to be intimidated and that such acts would have a firm response. #Barranquilla #FuerzaPública #Justicia (translated)

The Government has requested the Supreme Court to lift the precautionary measure on the census of the 'grandchildren's law' to allow the vote of those who have been naturalized before the general elections on November 29, arguing that it is impossible to verify each case in the established time. #LeyDeNietos #TribunalSupremo #DerechoAElegir (translated)

The Spanish government considers it impossible to review the electoral roll of those nationalized under the 'grandchildren's law' before November 29 due to the proximity of the elections and the complexity of the verification process for almost 170,000 files. #LeyDeNietos #DerechoDeSufragio #CensoElectoral (translated)