Search

Blue Moon saluted Manchester City's 3-0 success against Liverpool and highlighted Jeremy Doku. The author wrote that the match, presented as supposed to be challenging, turned out to be easy and expressed admiration for the club. https://t.co/051PHighyK #Liverpool #ManCity #Football (translated)

As of 4 PM on the referendum, 603,057 voters have cast their ballots, with discussions ongoing about the controversial amendment to the parliamentary investigation, which proposes more power to the commissions and less protection for those under investigation. #referendum #parlamentarnaPreiskava #varstvoPreiskovancev (translated)

Alex Vanopslagh wrote that Liberal Alliance's Mads Strange had asked a person who described himself as a conservative Muslim in the TV 2 program Højskolen on Wednesday if it was a problem that only 16 percent of Muslim men in Denmark believed that homosexuality was acceptable. According to Vanopslagh, the person rejected that it was a problem and would not answer what he personally thought about homosexuality. Vanopslagh wrote that he disagreed and considered homophobia to be among the least Danish things. He believed that Muslims could be Danish if they supported the fundamental values of democracy and had embraced Denmark. As a member of parliament, he claimed to have both the right and the duty to establish the requirements for Danish citizenship. He wrote that applicants should at a minimum acknowledge the precedence of Danish law over religious laws, an individual's right to make choices about his life, and equal rights for homosexuals. They should also not support Islamist regimes or terrorist movements. Therefore, Liberal Alliance would screen applicants and say no to individuals who had praised terrorism, supported Hamas or similar organizations, threatened people who left Islam, or acted hostile towards homosexuals, he wrote. Vanopslagh wrote that the government would reintroduce a bill on citizenship for 2,055 individuals. He referred to the government's own statement that applicants' values should be screened, but that the screening should not apply to the 2,055 individuals. According to him, this risked allowing Islamists, rabid anti-Semites, or anti-democrats to gain citizenship. Liberal Alliance would not vote for more citizenships until the screening was in place, Vanopslagh wrote. He described Danish citizenship as a gift rather than a right. #Danmark #Statsborgerskab #LiberalAlliance (translated)

Morlock No. 2 asked what costs the current policy was causing, mentioning energy, security, and the future of children. He estimated the national debt at 2,809,433,554,826 euros, with an increase of 6,326 euros per second. For 2026, he cited 20,057 business bankruptcies, one every 20 minutes, as well as 5,592,294 unemployment registrations, one every four seconds. #Politik #Wirtschaft #Zukunft (translated)

Between January and September 2026, the Bombers de la Generalitat carried out 1,057 mountain rescues, a 16% increase compared to the previous year, while the Mossos d'Esquadra recorded 16 deaths, more than double than in the same period in 2025. #RescatesDeMontaña #VictimasMortales #SeguridadEnLasMontañas (translated)

The author claimed that the USA was buying oil from Russia and publicly acknowledged it in an agreement between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. He also wrote that China and Turkey were receiving cheap natural gas from Russia, while the EU leadership, in his view, refused to buy cheap Russian oil and gas. He referred to some EU officials as idiots and stated that, according to them, the residents of the Union would be willing to pay for expensive gas. https://t.co/05xV2Wtys9 #Rusko #energie #EU #US #RU #CN #TR #EU (translated)

Péter Magyar wrote that in accordance with their commitments made before the elections, in the 2027 budget, they will increase the funding for public healthcare by 500 billion forints. The post, citing KSH data, also reported amounts of 3,883 billion forints for 2024, 1,462.9 billion forints for 2013, and 2,056.5 billion forints for 2019. https://t.co/HMm08BaXgn #egészségügy #költségvetés #választások #HU (translated)

Abelardo De La Espriella reported that, in Yarumal, Antioquia, the National Army killed in combat two people identified as members of the Gulf Clan and seized a rifle and a pistol. In Mitú, Vaupés, five members of the Armando Ríos structure were captured and 1,058 kilos of marijuana, two boats, and an engine were confiscated, he noted. He also indicated that the Police seized 611.8 kilos of cocaine in Ibagué that were being transported in a truck and captured one person. In Puerto Asís and Puerto Santander, he added, two illegal fuel refining infrastructures were destroyed, and 43,453 gallons were either disabled or destroyed. De La Espriella said that the balance of the last 24 hours was 29 captures and that, since August 7, there had been 32,503 captures, 129,526 kilos of drugs seized, and 3,456 firearms taken out of circulation. He stated that his order had been to pursue criminals and disrupt the economies that sustained them. He closed with patriotic and religious slogans. #Narcoterrorismo #Justicia #SeguridadCiudadana (translated)

Helma Lodders wrote that Johan Vollenbroek was often seen as a loner against powerful parties, but according to her, the image changed as soon as the financial interests were considered. She stated that a co-owner of DPG Media, which is behind the Volkskrant, Trouw, and a linked website, turned out to be financially involved. Lodders said that because of this, Vollenbroek seemed to have a strong network behind him and urged people to listen. #JohanVollenbroek #DPGMedia #Netwerk (translated)

The REAL MADRID FANS account shared a quote attributed to Toni Kroos, who stated that Cristiano Ronaldo continued to play because, in his opinion, he remained the best attacker in the box and not just for having that name. https://t.co/05iMxLkMYZ #CristianoRonaldo #ToniKroos #Fútbol (translated)

Gert wrote that he refueled in Goes the day before. A man at the gas station asked his wife if he could give her a compliment. When she asked why, the man, according to Gert, said he complimented her for still daring to visibly wear a Star of David. https://t.co/057wXQw4dI #Goes #Davidster #compliment (translated)

Nigeria – how pro-Russian influence networks sell military rule as the answer When Nigerians took to the streets in August 2024 to protest soaring living costs and frustration with government, some demonstrations acquired an unexpected symbol: the Russian flag. In Kano, Kaduna and other northern cities, protesters were filmed carrying Russian colours and calling for Moscow’s intervention. Some demanded a military takeover. What initially looked like an unusual expression of anger has since become part of a much larger picture. A September 2026 assessment by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies describes Nigeria as a major target of overlapping foreign information operations, with Russia the most active external actor in its information space. The report does not identify a single centrally controlled campaign. Instead, it maps an ecosystem in which genuine dissatisfaction over insecurity, corruption and living standards is repeatedly redirected towards a broader proposition: democratic government has failed, while the military-led regimes of the Sahel offer a more effective alternative. Turning a real protest into a pro-Russian message The clearest example emerged during the 2024 #EndBadGovernance protests. Nigerian investigative reporting found that a Kano-based TikTok influencer with more than 100,000 followers had been paid through a Telegram channel associated with African Initiative, a Moscow-based media operation linked by researchers to Russian influence activity in Africa. The influencer said the channel supplied photographs, videos and talking points for redistribution on TikTok and Instagram. Among the messages provided were phrases such as “Putin please come and save Nigeria” and “The army is the answer for Nigeria”. Influencers were encouraged to use Hausa-language hashtags including #Zangazanga – “protest” – alongside references to Putin and Russia. Investigators identified 38 accounts circulating similar pro-Russian and pro-military narratives during the demonstrations. Russian flags subsequently appeared among protesters in several northern cities. This does not mean the protests themselves were created by Russia. They were driven by genuine economic and political grievances, and Nigerian protesters gave different reasons for carrying Russian flags. The important feature of the influence activity was precisely that it did not need to manufacture the original anger. It could attach a geopolitical message to an existing domestic crisis. From frustration to the idea of military government The narrative fits a wider pattern seen across West Africa. Russia has developed close relations with the military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, while pro-Russian media ecosystems routinely portray those states as examples of sovereignty, stability and resistance to Western influence. Nigeria, by contrast, has remained under constitutional civilian government since 1999. Africa Center researchers say information networks targeting Nigerians increasingly contrast these two models. Recurring messages depict elections as wasteful or predetermined, civilian institutions as incapable of protecting citizens and military governments as more decisive on security and development. Some content portrays the Sahelian juntas as delivering better roads, lower prices and stronger security even where available evidence points to continuing or worsening instability. Language is central to the strategy. Hausa is spoken across northern Nigeria and neighbouring Niger, allowing political narratives to travel across borders that are far less important online than they are on maps. HumAngle documented efforts involving Nigerien state-linked actors to cultivate Hausa-speaking journalists and distribute material favourable to Niger’s junta and hostile to France and Western influence. The Russian and Sahelian-junta information ecosystems are not identical, but their narratives frequently reinforce one another. Fake journalists inside real Nigerian media The campaign environment extends beyond social media. A 2026 investigation by Graphika and Code for Africa identified 44 ghost reporters and fake experts whose identities were used to place Russia-aligned narratives in African media. Thirty-eight were assessed with high confidence to be fabricated. Their articles or quotations appeared across 138 websites and were amplified by at least 113 Facebook accounts and Pages. Nigeria was one of the most heavily targeted countries. According to the Africa Center’s analysis of the research, Daily Post Nigeria carried 39 articles involving 14 identified ghost authors. Once published by a genuine Nigerian outlet, such material could then be cited by other websites, social-media accounts or even Russian official channels as though it had originated independently in Africa. This is information laundering rather than simple propaganda: the most valuable asset being borrowed is the credibility of the local newsroom. Generative AI added another layer. OpenAI and Meta separately disrupted a Russia-origin network that produced Africa-focused political content and operated Facebook Pages posing as local media organisations. One fabricated commentator, “Dr Manuel Godsin”, was presented as a European-trained geopolitical expert although investigators found no evidence supporting his academic biography. ChatGPT had been used to generate articles under the persona’s name, while Meta removed 37 Facebook accounts and 29 Pages connected to the broader network. Different networks, similar strategic direction It would be misleading to merge all these activities into a single Russian command structure. The African Initiative-linked influencer campaign, the ghost-reporter network and the AI-enabled operation disrupted by OpenAI and Meta were uncovered separately and used different infrastructure. Public evidence does not demonstrate that every actor reported to the same organisation. What connects them is a recurring set of themes and methods: portraying Western partnerships as exploitative, presenting Russia as an alternative security partner, amplifying failures of civilian government, and giving military-led rule greater legitimacy. Investigative reporting on leaked Russian documents has meanwhile described a much wider influence apparatus operating across Africa, involving political consultants, paid journalists, influencers and locally tailored campaigns intended to reduce Western influence and expand Moscow’s position. The underlying technique is less about inventing dissatisfaction than redirecting it. Nigeria faces real security threats, economic pressure and public frustration. Influence operators do not need to persuade Nigerians that those problems exist. They need only influence the explanation for why they exist – and which political model appears to offer the answer. That is what makes the Nigerian case significant. The most effective propaganda does not necessarily introduce a completely false reality. It takes a real crisis and changes where the audience is encouraged to look for the solution. Sources Africa Center for Strategic Studies — The Raging Information Battle in Nigeria https://africacenter.org/spotlight/the-raging-information-battle-in-nigeria/ Graphika — Umbrae Ex Machina https://www.graphika.com/reports/umbrae-ex-machina OpenAI — Operation “No Bell” https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-no-bell/ TheCable — Ghost reporters in African media https://www.thecable.ng/ghost-reporters-how-fabricated-african-voices-carried-pro-russia-narratives/ HumAngle — Nigeria Is Facing an Information War in Its Own Language https://www.humanglemedia.com/nigeria-is-facing-an-information-war-in-its-own-language DAIDAC / CJID — Russian influence during #EndBadGovernance https://daidac.thecjid.org/how-telegram-tiktok-aided-russian-disinformation-that-led-to-incarceration-of-nigerian-minors/ FactCheckHub — How Nigeria’s hunger protest took a radical turn https://factcheckhub.com/from-economic-protests-to-coup-agitation-how-nigerias-hunger-march-took-a-radical-turn/ News24 — Fake Kremlin-linked analyst planted stories in African media https://www.news24.com/southafrica/news/ai-expert-exposed-fake-kremlin-linked-analyst-planted-stories-in-african-media-20260318-0560 Vanguard — AI ‘expert’ exposed https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/03/ai-expert-exposed-fake-kremlin-linked-analyst-planted-stories-in-african-media/ Africa Confidential — How Moscow wages social media war https://www.africa-confidential.com/article/id/15961/how-moscow-wages-social-media-war Keywords #DISINFORMED #Episode15 #Nigeria #Russia #RussianInfluence #RussianDisinformation #Africa #WestAfrica #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #Propaganda #MilitaryRule #MilitaryGovernment #Democracy #PoliticalManipulation #NarrativeManipulation #AfricanInitiative #EndBadGovernance #Hausa #LocalInfluencers #GhostReporters #FakeExperts #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPersonas #SyntheticMedia #AIPropaganda #Astroturfing #SocialMediaManipulation #Telegram #TikTok #DigitalInfluence #SourceLaundering #NarrativeLaundering #MediaManipulation #Sahel #Geopolitics #OSINT #WRLD

JingJingHome shared a link to an Instagram post marked “05102026” and described it as “JJJ HELLO PARIS.” The post included the hashtag #JANJINGJINGxFANDAY37INPARIS and tags for Jan Jingjing and jingjingyu. #JANJINGJINGxFANDAY37INPARIS #JanJingjing #jingjingyu https://t.co/oUWm1rY3oe #Paris #Fashion #Bonjour (translated)

Rafael, a socialist with an iPhone, wrote that Brazil should have followed China's example and banned large technology companies and the agendas of the American alternative right. In response to the criticism that this would be censorship, he defended censoring these agendas and used a derogatory ableist term to describe them. He also stated that, for this reason, the CIA did not get close to them. https://t.co/05AruuxiWm #LiberdadeDeExpressão #Censura #Tecnologia (translated)

https://bjarnekimpedersen.blogspot.com/2026/10/05102026-russiske-bio-labs.html 05.10.2026 RUSSISKE BIO-LABS Der var engang russerne beskyldte Ukraine for at huse Bio-Labs Amerikanske laboratorier der skulle forske i biologisk krig, men det er tyven der beskylder alle andre for at stjæle. Det er russerne der nu har sluppet lunge pest ud til verden. Det er i Irkutsk men selv om de burde være isoleret som krigsforbrydernation flyver de pesten ud til verden. Det er ikke Corona genkomst men en russisk pandemi der truer verden. Russiske bio-labs truer nu dig og mig og resten af verden. Så giver det måske mening at corona sølvpapirshattene i store flokke støtter Putins udryddelsesplan for Ukraine og Ukrainsk.

Eva Gregersen wrote that the government, according to her information, would reintroduce a bill on Danish citizenship for 2,055 applicants and their 1,039 children without first screening them for anti-democratic views. She believed that the Social Democrats were thus yielding to the value-political left. In a column in Berlingske in February, Gregersen had predicted that at least 600 people with the same ideological standpoint as an applicant, whom Stoklund had allegedly rejected the year before due to their values, would obtain citizenship. She also referred to Wilkes' study for Jyllands-Posten from 2024, which according to her showed that 54 percent of Muslims living in Denmark believed that the dictates of the Koran should be followed fully. Gregersen pointed out that Mette Frederiksen had stated from the podium of the Folketing that it was incompatible with Danish society to take the words of the Koran at face value. Gregersen agreed with that assessment and called it national self-harm to continue granting citizenship to so many people, whom she believed could be expected to follow the dictates of the Koran. #udlændingepolitik #danskpolitik #statsborgerskab (translated)

Christian Marcussen wrote that he had participated in the program Akkurat hos Clement, where the panel had discussed Danish politics as well as the election in Sweden, the unrest in France, and the USA under Donald Trump. He described the government as an artificially composed "Frankenstein government" and pointed to immigration policy as a conflict point. According to him, there would be repeated stories of internal disagreement until the government fell. Marcussen called the issue of citizenship the biggest point of contention and wrote that the three smaller government parties wanted relaxations. He referred to a news report stating that the Moderates, Radikale Venstre, and SF wanted to grant citizenship to 2,055 people who, according to him, were waiting for a model to be developed to filter out anti-democrats. He assessed that the Social Democrats would bend in the matter but wrote that he would like to be wrong. #danskpolitik #valget2023 #statsborgerskab (translated)