Would love to see more journalists post the cables behind these stories. It would help others file FOIAs for related cable traffic. And if you want to know how to read a State Dept cable - here's a great primer from @foianate.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social unredacted.com/2010/11/29/f...

« Ainsi, l’Amérique claque la porte de l’ère post-1945. Les alliances traditionnelles n’engagent plus à rien, puisque tout est extorsion, rapport de force et alignement exigé. » www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Article d’un journaliste du Figaro dont l’identité a été usurpée dans le cadre de la dernière opération informationnelle de Storm-1516. www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...

Don't fall for the manipulative "censorship" framing of EU's fines against X for DSA violations. The EU is trying to enforce their laws. X is breaking them. And the U.S. government is defending big tech, billionaries, & bullshitters rather than protecting users. www.linkedin.com/posts/daphne...

Great article showing that the theory according to which Russian disinformation actors are engaging in LLMs grooming is, to date, supported by little tangible evidence.

Is it a bot... or not? When online outrage against a company or brand pops up, it can be easy to assume these incidents are solely due to armies of bots and inauthentic accounts. But all may not be as it seems. Read on below to learn more.

Dans sa nouvelle stratégie de sécurité nationale, l'admin US se donne pour objectif de "corriger la trajectoire de l'Europe" et d'y soutenir les partis "patriotiques" alignés avec la Maison blanche pour lutter contre "l'effacement civilisationnel". Via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

Documents recovered after the fall of former Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad show how Syriatel shared client phone data with an intelligence agency. www.occrp.org/en/scoop/dam...

Regarding the X fine announced today, a few points are worth keeping in mind, before unfolding in deep what’s there. A thread on what matters in the DSA enforcement 🧵

EU fines Elon Musk’s X €120mn for transparency violations on.ft.com/49XYo4D

Syria's fallen dictator may be in exile — but some in his old guard aren’t ready to give up. A Reuters investigation has uncovered a secret campaign by former Assad loyalists to fund tens of thousands of fighters and stir uprisings against Syria's new government reut.rs/48TUVmr

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

The US government is now targeting anyone applying for a H-1b visa that have worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Pour protéger ses employés basés au Four Seasons à Damas, l'ONU a versé 11 millions de dollars à une entreprise de sécurité détenue par les services de renseignement du régime syrien. Via @icij.org. www.icij.org/investigatio...

The #DamascusDossier investigation is now live. The exposé includes new details of former Syrian president Bashar Assad's vast system for the detention, torture and murder of Syrian citizens — and the international forces that financed his regime. Read our stories:

Networks of MAGA bots posing as Americans and featuring AI errors are being run from Asia The Bot Blocker project @antibot4navalny.bsky.social identified five groups of “MAGA accounts,” the largest of which contains more than 200 “individual” pro-Trump voices.

Fugitive pro-Kremlin oligarch Ilan Shor says he is shutting down his “social projects” in Moldova and withdrawing support for MPs Analysts say the change may signal a shift in the Kremlin’s strategy for exerting influence in the country.

Saviez vous @liberation.fr qu'en insérant dans votre article un lien pointant vers le site Pravda, appartenant au réseau Portal Kombat identifié par @viginum.bsky.social, vous lui apportez trafic et notoriété, augmentant la visibilité de ses narratifs auprès des moteurs de recherche et des LLMs?

#factchecking. QI de Macron : comment un faux site a usurpé l’identité de journalistes en inventant des documents de la banque Rothschild 🔗 lessurligneurs.eu/qi-de-macron...#factchecking #macron #storm1516 #usurpationdidentite #journalistes

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France and the president Emmanuel Macron, the campaign is promoting a false claim that Macron received a below average IQ score when he joined an investment bank Rothschild & Co

Ou mieux encore : partager via un lien archivé, par exemple via archive.is. En plus de permettre de ne pas amplifier le contenu comme expliqué ci-dessous, cela permet également de garder une preuve, et ce même quand l'acteur en face tente d'effacer ses traces aussitôt son méfait realisé. 🫡

Les services de renseignement français ont obtenu la preuve que le Kremlin a approuvé un plan visant à s’en prendre aux communautés à la fois juive et musulmane afin de mieux fracturer notre société. Révélations. Via @mediapart.fr www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

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Who leaked Witkoff’s call advising Kremlin on how to get Trump on side?

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams…

Le piratage de la FFTir a touché plus d'un million de profils : 250 000 adhérents et 750 000 anciens adhérents. CheckNews a constaté que des données, présentées comme issues de ce leak, étaient proposées à la vente sur un forum. Avec @amaelleguiton.fr www.liberation.fr/checknews/pi...

#ingerences : en Moldavie, l’enquête pénale qui rencontre les affaires françaises. Où l'on croise Anatoli Prizenko, commanditaire autoproclamé des étoiles de David bleues il y a 2 ans, auj. en procès, et deux officiers du GRU, le renseignement militaire russe. A lire sur @liberation.fr / CheckNews.

Si l’Ukraine et ses soutiens européens ont pu retravailler le plan de paix très défavorable qui leur a été soumis par Washington, c’est grâce à la fracture à la tête des États-Unis, où s’affrontent deux visions de ce que veut dire « America First ». Par @mayakandel.bsky.social‬

How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’

🧵 A bot network tried to help the GOP retain power in Virginia by influencing the Attorney General election. It failed: Democrats won a triplex in the state govt: Gov, LtGov, AG seats. This outcome could affect the 2026 midterms and subsequent presidential elections.

Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

Unpopular opinion supported by facts: transition from X to BlueSky for editorial media shows that less but qualitative subscribers is equivalent to being present on a toxic platform. If the end result is the same, why not supporting alternative platforms?

Congratulations to Graham Phillips for achieving this first - Pro-Russia former civil servant becomes first Brit to face Ukraine 'war crime' charges over clip of pigs eating dead soldiers www.lbc.co.uk/article/firs...

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy with one of their most bizarre claims alleging that Zelenskyy holds a Russian passport (which was allegedly issued in Crimea in 2015) and owns luxury real estate in Moscow

🧵Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot network is now exploiting the 10th anniversary of 2015 Paris attacks, part of its multi-year effort to cut aid to Ukraine and to undermine trust to Emmanuel Macron. Fake videos impersonate: @RFI.fr, @20minutes.bsky.social, @LeParisien.fr, @France24.com, @LeMonde.fr.

Streets have been renamed, Ukrainian monuments removed, and murals painted over. Bellingcat investigates how apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been demolished to make way for a new Russian suburban utopia… www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...