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Russia handed Roskomnadzor the keys to the entire internet on October 27, letting the agency reroute traffic, flip the censorship switch and isolate the Russian web at will starting March 1. Officials insist it's all for "Russians' online safety".

Happy birthday to the boy who forces one to stay among the living. Here’s to not forgetting you.

The drone-dominated, cyber-riddled Ukrainian front line is the future of warfare. Any new equipment which doesn’t take account of this will be obsolete before it comes off the production line. We have much need of Ukraine’s experience of fighting Russia to keep Britain safe in this new world. End

Estonian leadership’s social media game stays unmatched. 😆 The MFA, its Secretary General, and the ambassador to the UK discuss what they’ve just seen at the Russian border.

This 5-part pod is the best thing you’ll hear this weekend: a chilling simulation of a Russian attack on the UK that forces leaders into impossible choices. Blue Team: UK’s ex-ministers, generals, intel chiefs. Red Team: seasoned Russia analysts. “Russia knows our weaknesses - but do you?”

Look at this: Putin’s oligarch Oleg Deripaska - busy pleading he’s a man of peace while desperately trying to lift US/EU sanctions - just got bad news. A new investigation links his firms to Russia’s war machine. If this holds up, the EU must not touch that asset-unfreezing deal.

Look what you made us do: How to realise a European-led NATO: ecfr.eu/article/look...

The ways of the Lord are mysterious.

Grokipedia sounds way too much like the pro-Kremlin Wikipedia knockoff Runiversalis, which @buziashvili.bsky.social and I wrote about for @dfrlab.bsky.social in 2022. dfrlab.org/2022/09/01/p...

Tomorrow a story I've worked on for over a year drops at @newlinesmag.bsky.social. It's GRU-related, but it's also unlike anything I've ever investigated or written. I don't know of anything remotely like it in the annals of GRU espionage.

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

GreenEarth is creating open source AI-driven recommender infrastructure for BlueSky. Type a prompt, see your feed change. We are here for the users, the builders, the dreamers. Join us. greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...

How it started: Kyiv in 3 days. How it continues:

Eastern European history: musical.

Preliminary findings: 🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data. 🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions. This is a duty, not a choice. link.europa.eu/JYQrBX

Fake video walk-throughs, a magically expanding loft, and stair hallucinations are just some of the new AI-generated features house hunters are coming across.

Social media giants remain black boxes to those seeking to shine a light on how the companies’ algorithms determine what people see in their feeds, writes Tech Policy Press contributing editor Mark Scott. buff.ly/U82Yvic

A prescient thread from @buziashvili.bsky.social, which should be read by so many people in so many nations. Courage is a tough thing these days, but we need to recognize it when we see examples worth emulating.

I’m a Slavist who lived in Prague and studied Czech. Václav Havel’s writings on this are so essential. You’re reminding me that I need to go back and read “The Power of the Powerless” again. Best of luck to you and to us all.

This entire 🧵.

Worthy of a follow and a share. Thank you for the reminder today @buziashvili.bsky.social 🙏✌️🇨🇦

A year ago today, when I arrived from Washington DC, Russia’s proxy government in Tbilisi raided me. They seized all my devices and froze my personal accounts, which remain inaccessible to this day. I received extraordinary solidarity from friends, colleagues, & complete strangers who 1/11

I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.

Next semester’s offering: “Advanced Evasion - Theory Only.” Spoiler - it’s a short course as practical sessions keep getting cancelled.

Weeks-191 Victories-0 Casualties - 1,130000 Economy - 🚽 War crimes - ♾ Oil - Sanctioned Trump - unfriended Medvedev - 🥴😤 Refineries - 💥🔥 Petrol - Short Queues - Long Saab's - Gripping Sovereign fund - Unfrozen🇺🇦 Racoons - +1🦝 I remain a master strategist

One good thing about Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign emailing us their fake news posts everyday of the week is you can get a sense of what really worries Russia. The last few days have been dominated by videos about how unpopular Macron is for wanting to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine

By the always sharp, elegant, and gracefully cutting prose of @edwardlucas.bsky.social.

confirming what anyone with the most passing familiarity with the political science literature on the topic has been saying for years already, and will continue to say, whether politicians or some/many in media listen or not

Ukrainians will not accept a suicide plan that surrenders territory and people, and gives Russia military advantage for another attack. Europe must give Ukraine what they need to win. A reminder ahead of Budapest meeting where Ukrainians will be on the menu as they wont be at the table. ⬇️

Soviet joke on Nazi forces massing on the Czechoslovakian border in 1938 (ironic, given it’s always been Moscow’s own modus operandi): - Why are there so many troops? - In case of a provocation. - What if there's no provocation? - How could there not be, with so many troops around!

Three German spy chiefs - foreign, domestic, and military - on Russian threat to Europe in a remarkable public intervention.

Meeting Trump in Budapest is perfect. That's where we promised never to invade Ukraine in the first place.

The US's choice of Budapest as the place to possibly decide Ukraine's fate looks to many familiar with the issue like obvious trolling of Ukrainians. The #BudapestMemorandum of 1994 was a (if not THE) key US mistake that allowed Russia to start its war against Ukraine in 2014.

Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have sharply increased their use of artificial intelligence to deceive people online and mount cyberattacks against the United States, according to new research from Microsoft. apnews.com/article/ai-c...

ISW is aware that a known Russian bot network is again spreading fake videos that use the ISW brand and likeness to promote fabricated assessments and other false claims as part of the Kremlin’s concerted campaign to dissuade the US from providing Ukraine with Tomahawks. 1/2 theins.ru/en/news/285897

If you’re at #Disinfo2025 in Ljubljana, I’ll be presenting the concept of information manipulation set (IMS) we developed at @viginum.bsky.social. 🗓️This morning at 11.30am 📍Track 2 at Cankarjev Dom @disinfo.eu

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality just got reviewed in New York Review of Books! It’s a great review that connects the dots between a few 📚 - incl @rmac.bsky.social’s - as cautionary tales ab what’s now happening in free speech & social media. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Gross! www.molfar.institute/en/dity-rosi...

Mysterious! Who could have possibly attacked it and then posted the attack online? Let’s play hangman: starts with R, ends with ussia, and has a veto seat at your Security Council. So, who attacked your convoy, Sir? @tomfletcherun.bsky.social

OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

In Ljiubliana for another #disinfo2025. Every year the conference becomes this beacon of hope that reunites the community for another year 🥰. I will be presenting today on #io investigations in messaging platforms, so come and say hi!

Terrific take @michaeldweiss.bsky.social. + for Lamb, the lighter isn’t about love or betrayal like it was for Smiley and Karla - it’s what’s left after both: habit, decay, the reflex of survival. Smiley reached for meaning, Lamb reached for fire. Same craft, colder century, the lesson is endurance.

ISW: Russia is regenerating land forces, scaling industry & drones, and intensifying hybrid pressure below Article 5. Assesses a medium-term risk window for NATO. Estonian and Danish intelligence 2025 assessments reached the same conclusion earlier this year. 1/3 understandingwar.org/research/rus...

Triple terror. In the Chernihiv region, a russian drone targeted a service car of engineers who came to repair an energy facility after russia's previous attack — killing two workers and injuring three. When rescuers arrived, russians shelled them too. Unspeakable horror. Don't look away.

How to negotiate with Putin: First, make sure he knows he can't win From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

🫥 #UkrainianArt History @ukr_arthistory Half of #Kyiv doesn't have electricity after the attack, which was expected, because our neighbours are russians. It is cold outside, raining and not nice. But we have each other anyway ☕️ Ihor Hrihoriev (1934-1977), "At cafe", 1964

Call it hybrid warfare, gray-zone tactics, or whatever euphemism helps you sleep at night. But semantics won’t save you. It’s war. Russia is at war with you, dear Europe. Whether you like it or not.

💥🔎💰NEW INVESTIGATION: Across the Visegrád countries, politicians use paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and NGOs – while Meta & Google profit from this #SponsoredHate. Such ads reach tens of thousands of users while evading platform moderation. @vsquare.bsky.social