Me on the Media Innovatie podcast talking about open source investigation, transparency, democratic resilience, and Hugh Grant open.spotify.com/episode/5TA1...

People shift political expression to fit the norms in the room People randomly assigned to liberal- or conservative- chat groups shifted their stance in the direction of the group revealing that social context is sufficient to alter political expression. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Russian intelligence tried to recruit Corsican nationalists through SOSDonbass. www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers...

Russia pummeled Kyiv yet again overnight; at least 11 people killed, nearly 5 dozen wounded."We just got the windows replaced, and now it's happened again," one woman said. "It's just horrible, my God. There are so many children here. How long does this have to go on?"

🔵EXCLUSIF | Comment le renseignement russe a tenté de recruter des nationalistes corses via l’association SOS Donbass ➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/oLKr

Le Fil de l'épée décortique aujourd'hui le second volet de "La Bataille de Gaulle" d'Antonin Baudry, "J'écris ton nom", sorti en salles depuis la semaine dernière, avec Frédéric Fogacci (Fondation CdG) lerubicon.org/collimateur-...

Cash, diamonds and Viagra: How the CIA recruits foreign spies www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Moscou, août 2024. Anna Novikova pousse la porte du très chic restaurant italien d’un cinq-étoiles de la Place Rouge, à deux pas du Kremlin. Elle s’attable, en toute discrétion, avec un certain Dimitri P. Cet homme d’une trentaine d’années l’avait contactée sept mois...

Coupe du monde : les influenceurs d’extrême droite sont si racistes qu’ils ne supportent pas l’équipe de France

Russia’s fuel crisis spreads from gas stations to threaten wider inflation across almost all sectors, economists tell The Insider “The crisis is a kind of perfect storm, where every possible problem for Russia converges in one place,” said analyst Maksim Blant.

Entre Lalanne, Asselineau et Fedorova, un géant français du sucre trinque à l’ambassade de Russie Par @yphilippin.bsky.social, @davidperrotin.bsky.social et @marineturchi.bsky.social

Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network blames France and Ukraine’s SBU for assassination attempt on Ukrainian businessman Yermolaiev Fake videos suggest the attack was due to his alleged plans to testify on Zelensky’s activities, @antibot4navalny.bsky.social reports.

Putin Is Slipping Into Delusion www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : l’attaque massive russe sur Kiev tue 17 personnes ; plus de 50 000 personnes se sont réfugiées dans le métro de la capitale ukrainienne dans la nuit

European Parliament staff were staying at a hotel in Kyiv, which came under attack by the Russian Federation during the night.

On day 1,588 of the ‘3-day special military operation’, Kremlin outlets continue to predict Ukraine’s imminent collapse, dismissing drones as a useless distraction. The current fuel queues across Russia suggest a very different reality.

🟦 KYIV'S DEADLIEST NIGHT Russia launched its largest assault on Kyiv since the full-scale invasion began — overnight into July 2. At least 17 dead, dozens wounded. Residential blocks burning across the city. Poland scrambled jets. Finland closed airspace. #Ukraine ⛓️

Maxime Audinet, politiste : « Entre Vincent Bolloré et Xenia Fedorova, il y a une coopération avantageuse, des intérêts mutuels » www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Russia installs heavy machine guns on “shadow fleet” vessel for the first time, Dossier Center reports Images provided to Estonian outlet Delfi showed two 12.7 mm Kord heavy machine guns mounted on the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Marshal Vasilevsky.

In 2025, the Kremlin’s ‘digital sovereignty’ led to more than 37,000 hours of internet outages across Russia, affecting 146 million users and causing over $11 billion in economic losses, making Russia the country with the highest cumulative internet outage time globally.

Alors qu’il travaillait au lancement de sa chaîne « Livre noir » (devenu « Frontières »), l’activiste d’extrême droite Erik Tegner a été payé par un lobby hongrois 🇭🇺 pro-Orban pour influencer le débat public en France. Le contrat (4.200€ par mois) est publié sur @streetpress.bsky.social👇

Last week the House of Lords spent three hours debating threats to democracy. What was striking to me about it wasn't any single speech, it was that half the room was describing one half of the problem, the other half was describing the other half, and almost nobody connected the two. 🧵

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

The U.S. has deported scores of Russians back home under the second Trump administration. But few are known to have replicated what Artyom Vovchenko did next: he escaped for a second time.

Après la mort de Louis à Narbonne, "Yanis", un adolescent imaginaire tué à Toulouse : la fake news de l'extrême droite attise la haine et la violence france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ha...

We're launching a funding drive on Bellingcat today. It's a tough funding environment at the moment with global funder cuts & the fear of Trump scaring off donors, so support us here www.bellingcat.com/donate/?utm_... A short video about what your donations will fund www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vzb...

Europe says it wants tech sovereignty, write Cecilia Rikap and Vali Stan. But if the European Commission truly wants Europe to “act independently in the digital world”, they argue, it should start by freeing itself from Big Tech’s epistemic capture.

1/ In possibly the most predictable outcome ever, a Russian former soldier who made a video appealing to Vladimir Putin to meet with him to avert an army rebellion over abuses on the front line has been jailed for "propagating extremist symbols". ⬇️

Russia Weaponizes Civilian Tanker in Baltic Sea, Surveillance Images Show www.occrp.org/en/scoop/rus...

« “Ne me tuez pas !”, criait-il à son commandant » : une faille de sécurité a permis d'accéder à des milliers de lettres de soldats russes. Ils décrivent les violences exercées contre eux par leur propre armée : humiliations, menaces, corruption, exécutions #Russie www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

""Effectively, they saw their model in action," said Michael Colborne, journalist and researcher for Bellingcat [...] "They saw masked young men committing political violence and in a model that they … would actually further like to emulate themselves."" www.npr.org/2026/06/29/n...

🧵 This is new in how Matryoshka works. They are emailing fact checkers impersonating us, @Antibot4Navalny team: asking to "verify" Matryoshka's daily set of fake videos / front covers *on our behalf*.

If De Gaulle were alive today, he'd be in Kyiv, not Moscow. He would know that a regime attacking our allies and trying to destabilise our country and divide our society is not our friend.

"I can't be racist because I had a Chinese spy as an assistant". Entering easily the top 10 of the not so bright statements made by far-right politicians. #FarRight #Germany

If De Gaulle were alive today, he'd be in Kyiv, not Moscow. He would know that a regime attacking our allies and trying to destabilise our country and divide our society is not our friend.

Les auteurs de ces gestes "ont indiqué avoir voulu faire rire sans imaginer la portée de leur geste ni les conséquences". "Certains ont même pleuré lors de leur audition en prenant conscience de la gravité des faits". Comme ces gars partis en Syrie faire la cuisine. www.franceinfo.fr/societe/anti...

‘Tech firms are losing the public’: social media age bans near tipping point www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...

"I can't be racist because I had a Chinese spy as an assistant". Entering easily the top 10 of the not so bright statements made by far-right politicians. #FarRight #Germany

“I spent my life fighting Russian spies. They haven’t been this reckless for years” www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... Former CIA station chief says the West is ‘wilfully unprepared’ for Moscow’s hybrid war of sabotage and assassination plots.

Africa Corps, les militaires russes qui ont remplacé Wagner au Mali, multiplient atrocités & mises en scène morbides Pourtant placés sous la tutelle directe du ministère de la défense russe, les militaires d’Africa Corps ont déjà à leur actif de nombreuses exécutions. www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

His own people.

Russia has found a new way to wage an information war against Europe, and it runs through Africa. For a long time, African countries were viewed as one of the audiences for Russian propaganda⤵️

A Russian soldier-blogger's demand for a live Putin meeting drew 3.5M Instagram views in 4 hours. He says military and police officials visited him and asked him to relay it: grant a meeting, or the army will "turn its weapons against the Kremlin." meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Another Russian shadow fleet tanker is stopped. The oil tanker Deliver, sailing under a false flag in violation of maritime law, has been intercepted by the French Navy, dealing another blow to Russia’s shadow fleet. [1/3]

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the French Navy intercepted the Russia-linked shadow fleet tanker Deliver in the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily.

“Some tankers had multiple AIS devices, which dark-fleet crews employ to broadcast fake identities to the world. In one instance, a cyber team found a switch that sailors were using to electronically flip between vessel names—the digital equivalent of painting over the ship’s real name on the hull.”