🚨 The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned the AEZA Group. Listen to my podcast with Active Measures where I discuss Russia's collaboration with cybercriminal groups and their role in influence operations. AEZA is linked to Op. Doppelgänger & Blacksprut, a major dark web marketplace omny.fm/shows/active...

In this week's episode of the Active Measure Newsletter's podcast I was invited to discuss the content of our joint investigation with @dfrlab.bsky.social and @checkfirst.network on the Pravda Network and the consequences of the poisoning of LLMs & the targeting of Wikipedia omny.fm/shows/active...

Last year, Russia imported 5.4 MILLION shipping containers. After today’s historic attack, every single one is a potential weapon that Putin is terrified of. Not only has Ukraine neutered Russia’s long-range air capability today, but they just crippled its supply chain & economy. Utter genius.

💥🎙️In a leaked audio, Viktor Orbán's defense minister says Hungary's army is being reshaped “to break with the peace mentality and move toward phase zero of the road leading to war.” It's unlikely he means a war against Russia — he was a business partner of Russia's Transmashholding. 👇Thread.👇

How Dare You Transmit at 1.4 GHz! A NASA satellite built to measure soil moisture just mapped out electronic warfare across UA and western RU. Using open data, we visualized high-powered jamming and spoofing activity at 1.4 GHz radioandnukes.substack.com/p/how-dare-y...

"Google and Meta accounted for at least half the record £42.6bn spent on UK advertising last year, according to Press Gazette estimates." pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...

At least 30 Ukrainian journalists remain in Russian captivity as of April, IMI reported, with little known about their health conditions or whereabouts. Multiple reports have revealed that Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are tortured and killed while in Russian captivity.

EPP calls for sanctions on Ivanishvili, non-recognition of GD parliament, and backing Zurabishvili as the only legitimate representative of the Georgian people. It also calls on the GD to set a specific date for new parliamentary elections.

Ever wondered how many “Pravda” articles go live every hour, where they originate or the paths they take? With @vchatelet.bsky.social we decided to build the first Pravda Dashboard offering real‑time windows into Russia’s “Portal Kombat” disinformation network #osint #russia #disinformation

Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained a russian spy in Kyiv who was preparing terrorist attacks near defense facilities.

Russia’s push for control over the occupied Abkhazia is evident in reopening the decades-closed Sukhumi Babushara Airport and a test flight from Moscow. Read more by my colleagues @sopogelava.bsky.social and @vchatelet.bsky.social:

What do #Wikipedia, #LLms, & #X have in common? They’ve all been quietly infiltrated by the Pravda network—a sprawling web of pro-Kremlin sites posing as news outlets. @vchatelet.bsky.social BlueSky explores #PravdaNetwork w/ @checkfirst.network in this week's the Source: bit.ly/3EcgvpZ

If the West — the UK 🇬🇧 in particular — doesn’t act now with targeted sanctions, it’ll be too late to hurt the dictatorship before it cements its rule and fortune. Time is running out.⌛️

[Hybrid warfare] 🧵hey @viginum.bsky.social , here is our take: Global Kombat, the Russian one-stop shop for influence goes global alleyesonwagner.org/2025/03/25/g...

NEW! Two former U.S officials overseeing Ukraine policy raised alarms over the potential shutdown of a vital Yale unit that has played a key role in gathering evidence on russian war crimes in Ukraine, as the program will run out of funding this weekend👇🏻 kyivpost.com/post/49579

🇬🇪Georgia is quietly undergoing a dramatic geopolitical shift. Under Georgian Dream and its informal leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, the country is accelerating its alignment with Iran (and China and Russia)—abandoning its Western orientation. 🧵A thread on why this matters. 1/16

Subjugation is exactly the right word @orelb.bsky.social

NEW 🚨 The #Pravdanetwork—a Russia-linked disinformation operation—has infiltrated #Wikipedia, AI chatbots, and #X, spreading pro-Kremlin narratives globally. @vchatelet.bsky.social & @checkfirst.network reveal the scale of this content pollution: bit.ly/3R6XW9l

Last weekend I tried to get a correction from Matt Taibbi on a basic “mistake”: claiming a report I wrote was source of the stat that 126MM people saw Russian influence op content on FB. Rather than correct, he fought me. He made more “mistakes”. Hilarity ensued. open.substack.com/pub/reneedir...

Two excellent lecturers, Ira Kherkheulidze & Giorgi Tsertsvadze, have been dismissed from Tbilisi State University on political grounds. Both are exceptional educators and principled citizens. Academic freedom... [1/2]

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

Now BBC reports both ships on fire and crew abandoning ships. FU. Hope they make it... Great reporting from BBC here: www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...

From Marine Traffic, here's the moment of the crash between the oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate and a cargo vessel MV Solong. Live updates here www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

The American aerospace company Maxar Technologies has disabled Ukraine's access to its satellite images. mil.in.ua/uk/news/maxa...

Reports in the Ukrainian press that Maxar had cut of the Ukrainians access to Maxar imagery, including commercial imagery, at the request of the US administration mil.in.ua/uk/news/maxa...

🧵My former world literature lecturer was arrested near Rustaveli yesterday while sitting in front of the Tbilisi Opera, reading a book after his university lectures.

March 7 marks 100 continuous days of protests in 🇬🇪. There will be no end to the all-encompassing crisis without new, free & fair elections, and the release of the regime prisoners. 1/

Seize the ship then.

On attend encore que Sizonenko enjoigne une modification de la constitution ukrainienne 🤡

This.

Here's the DOGE mistake, beautifully visualized: If you don't go where the money is, you don't save much money. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

À faire circuler parmi les sceptiques et celleux qui voudraient se contenter de dire que “c'est scandaleux” ou qu'“on ne sait pas”.

Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.

1 year ago, after #AlexeiNavalny ’s death, surges of scams were posted to Facebook impersonating the Navalny team, Putin’s political opponents, or posing as credible news sources. @vchatelet.bsky.social & Kristina Gildejeva investigate: dfrlab.org/2025/02/25/n...

Once again, it’s open season on women and minorities in America—and this time, it’s by design. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

The scenes in the Oval Office today will shame the US for decades. They’ll never be forgotten. A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders. A historic disgrace.

🚨 New report! In collaboration with @dfrlab.bsky.social , we reveal the global expansion of #Russia’s so-called "Portal Kombat" network—an influence operation laundering pro-Kremlin content across Europe, Africa, and Asia. First exposed by @viginum.bsky.social a year ago.

Trois ans après le déclenchement de l’invasion du territoire ukrainien par les forces armées de la Fédération de Russie, #VIGINUM publie une synthèse des principaux modes opératoires informationnels observés depuis le 24 février 2022 ➡️ www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...

Gil Won-ok, one of the last survivors of sexual slavery in brothels for Japan’s World War II troops, who campaigned to bring international attention to the suffering of thousands of women like her​, died this week at 96.

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Another Stoic-style influence operation on X, observed at @dfrlab.bsky.social. I and @marcowenjones.bsky.social had also investigated and exposed, last year, an anti-Qatar infop using inauthentic booster accounts with genAI profile pictures in its X presences ( sites.google.com/view/theqata... ).

More info: united24media.com/latest-news/...

Sur X(.)com, le patron de Twitter/X France publie une tribune en réaction aux "récents départs de notre plateforme". Où il regrette que l'entreprise n'ait pas été contactée en amont "dans un certaine nb de cas". Voilà ce que la même structure répondait aux journalistes, il y a quelques mois à peine

🚢 Britain issued a warning to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, declaring, “We know what you’re doing,” after the Royal Navy tracked a “Russian spy ship” as it passed through UK waters. This follows escalating concerns about potential sabotage by vessels associated with 🇷🇺.

This is what Gaza looks like today. Where does one begin.

Russische Desinformationskampagnen entdecken Bluesky „Gegenüber der AFP gibt der Sicherheitsforscher Valentin Chatelet zu bedenken, dass Blueskys Maßnahmen sehr reaktiv seien und das Netzwerk noch zeigen müsse, dass es auch proaktiv gegen solche Kampagnen vorgehen kann“ www.heise.de/news/Russisc...

It’s been about 40 days in the 50-day large-scale protests since the regime doesn’t gas us and people still report continuous fever, breathing, throat and respiratory problems, migraine, etc. I hope one day we know what they poisoned us with. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

As Georgian Dream increasingly borrows from the parlance of the US far-right, crying ‘Deep State’ amid talk of UK sanctions against Bidzina Ivanishvili, you wonder how long before they might hop on Musk’s ‘grooming gangs’ bandwagon… www.facebook.com/GeorgianDrea...

"Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal." theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...