trumpkennedycenter.org "The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter."

Ça valait le coup de bloquer Russia Today…

‼️Disinformation and physical propaganda. Austrian intelligence uncovered a large-scale Russian disinformation campaign. www.profil.at/investigativ...

1/ We talk a lot about Russian disinformation. And rightly so. But sometimes, let’s be honest, we don’t even need the Russians to stop ourselves from moving forward.

Read our latest crazy story on the spy who was so successful at pretending he's someone else that the GRU "killed off" his real persona and stranded him with the fake one. From a fake environmental expert to a purveyor of fake news: theins.press/en/inv/286477

Merci à Sophie Malibeaux de @rfi.fr pour avoir pris le temps de plonger dans #Disinfo2025.

Il faut lire le compte-rendu des sévices qu'ils ont endurés. Le système carcéral israélien est une insulte à la démocratie que ce pays prétend être.

Overwhelmed after this year's #Disinfo2025 conference by insights, inspiration & interesting talks with people from different countries, branches and sectors - all gathered in the interest of countering disinformation. Thank you to @disinfo.eu for once again organising such an important event!

Face à la multiplication des opérations de guerre hybride menées par des commanditaires russes, une équipe de chercheurs s'est attelée à cartographier ces actions. Leur travail met en lumière une stratégie d'ensemble dont l'objectif est la déstabilisation du continent européen.

If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.

Reading Jacques Ellul's (1962) book, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. In it, he laments how American scientists had abandoned the term “propaganda” because it “cannot be defined with any degree of precision," calling that "intellectual surrender." We've been down this same road before.

In recent years, we've seen very similar conversations about terms like mis- & disinformation. Terms have been defined & operationalized in different ways. Effects have been hard to measure (often due to overly simplistic models). And some have argued the terms are useless & the concerns overblown.

A new bunch of social media posts emailed to Bellingcat today from Russia's Matryoshka disinformation team, with a new theme. All of them focus on European Muslim communities and pigs materials being used in various ways, clearly an attempt to create tensions.

"Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

That's about the same as all the people who have died in every war of the 21st Century, and includes millions of dead children. All blood on MAGA hands.

It's worth reading this study, which estimates millions of deaths thanks to Musk and Trump's USAID cuts over the next 5 years.

🔴 NEW REPORT Alongside ‪@reset.tech‬, we publish our third investigation into Operation Overload. ⤵️

From the "the official Twitter of the U.S. Mission to the EU." Good job to the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" dipshits for helping authoritarians target their critics.

Pendant plusieurs semaines, j'ai travaillé sur l'une des plus grosses fuites de données de l'histoire du complexe russe de manipulation de l'information.J'en ai tiré cet article, qui "teste" l'articulation qu'on peut construire entre leaks et démarche géopolitique legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/06/1...

Hygiène informationnelle : le Helsingin Sanomat, 1er quotidien de Finlande, annonce arrêter définitivement l'emploi de titres "clickbait" pour ts ses articles. "Le journalisme doit transmettre de l'information, pas faire gonfler les choses" (les faits ou ses chiffres de lectorat à coup de clickbait)

I've pieced together the jigsaw pieces the Russian troll factories have been including in their latest fake news X posts, and I think they're trying to tell me something. but I'm struggling to decipher their subtle message. Thanks to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social for providing the missing pieces.

Trump agrees to delay EU tariffs until July 9 www.reuters.com/business/tru...

🔴 DIRECTO #Eurovision | "Frente a los derechos humanos, el silencio no es una opción". RTVE arranca la emisión de Eurovisión con este mensaje a pesar de las amenazas del certamen de multar a la cadena si sus comentaristas mencionaban el conflicto en Gaza dozz.es/mbmnv4

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1300.

Gates on Musk: ‘World’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children’ www.yahoo.com/news/gates-m...

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

Elon Musk Creates Federal Employee Revenge Porn Database

Literal fascism - playing this for crowds to cheer

at his rally in Michigan, Trump plays a propaganda video of prisoners having their heads shaved at the Gulag in El Salvador to big cheers from the crowd and "U-S-A!" chants

Attending a conference where researchers in my field (studying online misinformation and manipulation) are commiserating over all of our canceled grants, all in service of this: so this man and his regime of propagandists and conspiracy theorists can dictate (un)reality without challenge.

For the first time, France officially attributes a number of cyberattacks to Russia's GRU, including, to the surprise of no one, the 2015 TV5 Monde hack and the 2017 so-called "MacronLeaks" (as well as attacks targeting the 2024 Olympic games).

He is absolutely Trumpshit insane.

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

A break from my regularly scheduled political and legal posting to express some gratitude. This week, my 18 month old daughter had to have open heart surgery. 💔 As you might imagine, this was utterly terrifying. 1/

As we enter a period of major global instability- what The Economist termed ‘the Age of Chaos’ we need new thinking. So I’m delighted to announce this major new programme on Global Disorder, in partnership with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...

People don’t need to “learn to use AI”. They need to learn how to think and make connections themselves and thus will facilitate their efficient use of whatever technology comes along. Crafting the right prompt for AI doesn’t take AI training, it takes liberal arts training.

Grozev says he has been advised not to go to continental Europe because it's too easy for Russian spies/muppets to travel around the continent without leaving a trace. The UK is apparently safer now because of the newer and better border controls (including passport checks). youtu.be/6dqBmgXo2Uk?...

Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

Without hiding her pain, @ninajankowicz.com describes how endless sexual & violent online assaults have impacted her. "We must fight for a world where our rights as women to free expression online are just as valuable as our abusers,” she writes. And fight she does, effectively & ferociously.

L'OTAN cède aux pressions de l'administration Trump. D'après nos informations, Mark Rutte a discrètement coupé, depuis janvier, les 3 millions d'euros de crédit affectés aux missions de lutte contre la désinformation.

A VIGINUM @viginum.bsky.social ce qu'on aime, c'est partager de la connaissance et de la méthode sur les #FIMI. Aujourd'hui, nous publions une version consolidée de notre doctrine de capitalisation sur OpenCTI. github.com/VIGINUM-FR/D...

🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."

Happening right in front of us

🚨Here’s what 3.7M pieces of pro-Kremlin propaganda gets you. DFRLab & @checkfirst.network just launched the latest in our #Pravdanetwork series, exposing Russia's sprawling operation pushing coordinated disinfo across 80+ countries, fueled by automation & AI. 🔗 bit.ly/4cC0XIG

ICYMI, autopsies obtained by @nytimes.com show some of the 15 first responders killed by the IDF in an attack last month were shot in the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/w...