The deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and the growing repression exerted against the Russian youth are, for sure, among the worst crimes committed by the Putin regime.

MIT Technology Review profiles @rondeibert.bsky.social, who understood that civil society needed digital defense long before just about anyone else and has been doing it ever since. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1...

trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful: 1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda. 2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness 3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech

The deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and the growing repression exerted against the Russian youth are, for sure, among the worst crimes committed by the Putin regime.

Facebook, Instagram, X are simply banned in Russia. No US outrage about free speech there—yet the EU is the target. That contrast says a lot.

“It’s [Citizen Lab] one of the few institutions that investigate cyberthreats exclusively in the public interest, and in doing so, it has exposed some of the most egregious digital abuses of the past two decades.”

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) will seek power in next year's state elections. Civil society groups are alarmed, as are security services, which have found that some of its factions represent extremist threats. www.dw.com/en/germanys-...

From today’s Russian papers: “The US has de facto pulled out of the anti-Russia coalition.” On the Russian economy, one paper predicts VAT hike will spark “inflationary spiral.” Another warns: “Severe labour shortage. More than 800,000 blue-collar workers needed.” #ReadingRussia

On Tuesday, the Trump regime imposed visa bans on a former EU commissioner and anti-disinformation activists, alleging censorship of US social media. 1/6

Pretty unsurprising. As already said, the weaponisation of "freedom of speech" is part of a larger authoritarian project designed to suppress any forms of independent counter-powers (NGOs, academia, media) and factual criticisms of the current US administration's policies.

Dura lex, sed lex. In the EU, a large platform can't: - pretend an account is authentic just because it paid for a verified badge - spread harmful content - prevent public data access for researchers

This is the real cancel culture. Using the full force of the government to punish perceived enemies, aid their billionaire tech cronies, and protect pedophiles, neo-Nazis, and other extremist, antisemitic hate groups. THIS is the threat to our rights and freedoms. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

Unreliable. Creating more problems than solving them. A negative force on the world stage. This is how large shares of America’s closest allies view the U.S., according to our new poll.

The State department continues to use false allegations of "censorship" to censor people, or in this case sanction them www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

La France dénonce avec la plus grande fermeté la restriction de visa prise par les Etats-Unis à l'encontre de Thierry Breton, ancien ministre et Commissaire européen, et quatre autres personnalités européennes. 1/3

Pretty unsurprising. As already said, the weaponisation of "freedom of speech" is part of a larger authoritarian project designed to suppress any forms of independent counter-powers (NGOs, academia, media) and factual criticisms of the current US administration's policies.

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Back to the time of the year when you should do your best to avoid political debates with family members during Christmas dinners.

Qu'est-ce que le clickbait? Petite illustration ici où @bfmtv.com parle d'une "voiture qui fonce sur la foule" pour laisser penser à un acte délibéré alors que le contenu de l'article dit plutôt l'inverse.⬇️

Germany’s far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Germany’s far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Trump and Putin share a craving for status. That’s why they both want to destroy Europe | Henry Farrell and Sergey Radchenko

« une société uniformisée, travaillée au quotidien par une propagande traditionaliste, xénophobe et militariste, est le seul moyen [que les theoriciens du kremlin ont trouvé pour éviter qu’une guerre civile ne disloque le champ social] » legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/2...

In a matter of weeks, the Russian autocrat has erased his country’s prosperity in a feckless attempt to rebuild a doomed empire.

"In 1,000 days of war, Russia seized less than 1% of Ukraine's territory and failed to achieve its strategic goals." - Finnish President Stubb. He also noted that the Russian economy is stagnating: zero growth, exhausted reserves, high interest rates, and inflation.

Dès novembre 2023, de forts clivages enrayent le fonctionnement du SEAE. Plusieurs sources confirment par exemple qu’Hélène Le Gal, cheffe de l’unité Moyen-Orient, a empêché la diffusion d’un rapport interne sur la désinformation israélienne, préparé par l’unité de communication stratégique du SEAE.

Qu'est-ce que le clickbait? Petite illustration ici où @bfmtv.com parle d'une "voiture qui fonce sur la foule" pour laisser penser à un acte délibéré alors que le contenu de l'article dit plutôt l'inverse.⬇️

The Russian autocrat’s system of control has rested on pillars that are beginning to crumble.

Back to the time of the year when you should do your best to avoid political debates with family members during Christmas dinners.

Putin's battlefield generals tell him everything is going according to plan in Ukraine. Except it isn't. But the misinformation is driving Putin away from any realistic peace approach. www.ft.com/content/06e0...

"...voice generating bots are also becoming a boon to another unlikely corner of the internet: extremist movements that are using them to recreate the voices and speeches of major figures in their milieu, and experts say it is helping them grow."

The latest Storm-1516 campaign is targeting France. The campaign promotes a false narrative that the list of 200 French military service members, who are allegedly going to be promoted, was leaked in Algerian media

Not-so-useful idiots: How the International Russophile Movement consolidated the Kremlin’s European influence networks The Insider and Transparency International Russia shed light on the organization tasked with “amplifying destabilizing narratives” around the world.

❗️🇸🇪Sweden has detained the sanctioned 🇷🇺Russian vessel Adler and is inspecting its cargo, according to SVT. The owner company, M Leasing LLC, is under US and EU sanctions due to the export of North Korean ammunition, which Russia uses in the war against Ukraine.

Incredible piece about how the Russians used their connection to Mohamed bin Salman via Dmitriev and Kushner to replace General Keith Kellogg with Steve Witkoff and gain unimpeded access to the U.S. president. (no Paywall) www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Grâce aux données disponibles en sources ouvertes, @en.zona.media et @bbcrussian.bsky.social ont réussi à confirmer de manière formelle le décès d'au moins 156 161 soldats russes depuis le début du conflit en Ukraine.

The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI campaign is targeting the Ukraine once again. The current campaign promotes a false narrative that the Ukrainian soldiers are being microchipped under the guise of covid vaccination in order to kill them remotely if they don't follow the orders

Soupçonné de vouloir s’en prendre à des policiers, un jeune alsacien radicalisé a été écroué Cet habitant de Colmar, âgé de 19 ans, a été repéré pour ses prises de position radicales sur les réseaux sociaux.

In 2025, Russia has been framing the EU and Ukrainian leadership as "warmongers", who don't want to stop the war in Ukraine. This, of course, is an outright lie. In reality, it's the Kremlin who has rejected at least seven peace proposals in 2025 alone. Don't be deceived.

Voila qui sent fort la "mesure active".

💥Pro-Russian far-right leader George Simion may have lost Romania’s presidential race, but the online campaign machine behind his rise helped Karol Nawrocki win in Poland—and is now powering the populist Law and Justice’s comeback push. Check out our new investigation & follow @vsquare.bsky.social!

Et on parle seulement des soldats russes dont la mort a pu être confirmée via des données en sources ouvertes.

A titre de comparaison, le chiffre de 156 161 soldats russes tués est à peu près équivalent quantitativement à l'ensemble de la population de Grenoble en 2022, qui est dans le top 20 des villes les plus peuplées de France.

#Russie : malgré un environnement hostile, les médias 🇷🇺 indépendants en exil résistent et continuent d’informer des millions de citoyens, selon le rapport du JX Fund et de The Fix. RSF appelle les États européens à les soutenir : ils sont un rempart essentiel pour l’espace informationnel européen.

Xavier Moreau n’est pas un simple propagandiste, c’est un agent de radicalisation d’individus en totale rupture". Clotilde Jégousse m'a demandé de réagir aux récentes sanctions européenne dans cet article du Figaro.

This month, OpenAI announced "up to $2 million" in funding for research on AI safety and well-being. This may seem generous, write J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps, but following in the footsteps of other tech giants facing scrutiny over mental health impacts, it's nothing more than grantwashing.

This is a very informative piece on the two Bondi terrorists, while we won't have the full picture for quite some time yet, a lot of information about their radicalisation is starting to become known www.smh.com.au/national/a-f...

Grâce aux données disponibles en sources ouvertes, @en.zona.media et @bbcrussian.bsky.social ont réussi à confirmer de manière formelle le décès d'au moins 156 161 soldats russes depuis le début du conflit en Ukraine.

NEW: Officials in Rhode Island have denounced misinformation that they said complicated their multiday search for the gunman who killed two students and wounded others at Brown University. More from @en.afp.com: www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Russia’s Matryoshka bot network uses Bondi Beach shooting to intimidate Europeans and criticize aid to Ukraine The new disinfo being spread on social media was flagged by @antibot4navalny.bsky.social and features videos posing as @thestudyofwar.bsky.social and BBC News.