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Press briefs reported that Le Figaro had criticized the counter-budget of the National Rally, deeming it notably unconvincing and insufficiently documented. According to an analysis cited by the newspaper, the savings were overestimated and the expenses underestimated, and no serious model could lead to the announced results. https://t.co/KtMj5z9Egr #France #politique #budget (translated)

"Is pneumonia of undetermined etiology." On October 5, the regional governor of Irkutsk, Igor Kobzev, relying on post-mortem analyses conducted by a special commission of experts from Rospotrebnadzor, asserts that the cause of death of the young woman "is pneumonia of undetermined etiology." #Russie #Peste #SantéPublique (translated)

In his analysis, Robert Hirsch emphasizes that the recent debates within the social-democratic primary have highlighted a concerning injunction within the left, consisting of labeling Israeli actions in Gaza as "genocide," while raising concerns about the trivialization of the historical memory of the Holocaust. #Gaza #Génocide #Antisémitisme (translated)

Actu Foot reported that Jérôme Rothen had strongly criticized Rayan Cherki, expecting more from him with the French national team. He believed that the player should not be placed on the same level as Kylian Mbappé, Ousmane Dembélé, and Michael Olise, and had stated that he was not fixating on him. Rothen also mentioned Cherki's comments about an exchange with Bettoni and his desire to come on to show what he could do. He wondered why the player had waited until the last 20 minutes of the match to show himself, after the first three matches. While acknowledging that there had been some good and some less good, Rothen judged that Cherki had not convincingly done enough to be an undisputed starter. #Cherki #Bleus #Football (translated)

Cristiano Ronaldo claimed that the Portuguese coach had proposed a plan for him to participate in international matches, which he accepted. According to him, the plan stipulated that he would play in the first and last match and would not go to Norway or Denmark. However, he had agreed to play 30 minutes in Norway at the coach's request. Ronaldo then reproached the coach for breaking his word. He said they had agreed that the coach would acknowledge in a press conference that he had proposed the plan, that Ronaldo had never asked to play, and that it was wrong of him to make him warm up without putting him in the game. Simão Coutinho, a manager at Al Nassr, had witnessed their exchanges, he specified. Ronaldo felt that the tone of the coach during the press conference was different from that of their private conversation. The Portuguese captain acknowledged that he had been wrong not to greet the supporters after the match and for leaving the gathering. He apologized to them, as well as to his teammates, while explaining that the breach of trust had led him to leave. He also stated that he accepted the Federation's sanction and indicated that he would remain available for the national team after his suspension, provided he was fit and playing for his club. #CristianoRonaldo #ÉquipeNationale #Football (translated)

Actu Foot relayed a text presented as a statement from Cristiano Ronaldo, in which the player explained the exchanges he claimed to have had with the Portuguese coach before the last gathering. Ronaldo stated that after the 2026 World Cup, he had prepared a letter intended for the Portuguese to announce his definitive departure from the national team. According to him, the president of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) had then urged him, during the return flight from the United States, to reconsider his decision. The president had also asked his opinion on the current coach, whom Ronaldo claimed to have supported the appointment of. The player recounted that the coach had proposed that he play in the first and last match, while considering that he would not travel to Norway and Denmark. Ronaldo said he had refused, believing that his role as captain required him to travel with the team. He added that Simão Coutinho, sporting director of Al-Nassr, had witnessed their exchange. The day before the gathering, the coach reportedly came to his home in Lisbon, and the principles discussed in August would have been maintained. Ronaldo indicated that he had played at Alvalade before giving up his place without protest and passing the armband to Bruno Fernandes. For the match in Norway, he said he expected not to play, with his next match scheduled for the 4th at Dragão. He recounted that an assistant had then informed him that the coach wanted to speak with him, and then the coach had asked him if he could play for thirty minutes. Ronaldo claimed to have agreed and was invited to be ready. #CristianoRonaldo #EquipeNationale #Football (translated)

Cerfia reported that the European Parliament was examining an incident involving MEP Rima Hassan, accused of having knocked down the Israeli and European flags during an exhibition dedicated to the victims of October 7. According to the media, Rima Hassan admitted to having removed the Israeli flag from its stand, while claiming that the European flag had fallen by accident. She asserted that she had neither trampled nor damaged either flag. The LFI elected official explained that she wanted to denounce what she considered to be unequal treatment of the Israeli-Palestinian issue by the EU. She also said that she reacted after an artist present at the event denied the existence of Palestine and Palestinians. #Ukraine #Israël #UnionEuropéenne (translated)

The author shared a link to what they described as an analysis by Iranian political analyst Ali Alizadeh of the US-Israeli war on Iran, which they called illegal. They said Alizadeh argued that Iran’s strategy was to remove all US forces from West Asia, while the United States had no strategy. The author praised the analysis and urged people to listen. https://t.co/4n7M4kEUk3 #Iran #USForeignPolicy #MiddleEast #IR #US #IL

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In dem Artikel wird die besorgniserregende Situation in Österreich analysiert und die These aufgestellt, dass Russland strategische Entscheidungen trifft, die nicht in ihrem eigenen Interesse schädlich sind. It seems like you didn't provide the article. Could you please share it so I can help select the most fitting hashtags?

A Canadian analysis shows that abolishing daylight saving time and introducing a permanent summer time could be health detrimental, as it could lead to less sleep, lower productivity, and negative effects on well-being, while a permanent standard time, often referred to as winter time, is recommended to stabilize people's internal clocks. #Zeitumstellung #Gesundheit #Sommerzeit (translated)

A readable text, a subtitled video, a described image: five principles and concrete actions to make digital resources accessible. Digital accessibility in the service of the quality of learning Delphine Ducarme. Foreword: Yves Deville (p. 3). Louvain Learning Lab (LLL), UCLouvain (Belgium), "The Keys of LLL" collection Audio Capsules on Health Practices 🎙️🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCKvkJIZAxE An illustrated Key from UCLouvain, written for higher education, with glossary, annotated examples and a ready-to-use mini-feedback survey. Analysis of Health Practices and link to source ℹ️➕ https://www.pratiquesensante.com/blog/pratiques-15/l-accessibilite-numerique-au-service-de-la-qualite-de-l-apprentissage-6236 The document presents itself as a set of concrete guidelines to improve the digital accessibility of teachings (p. 2). It proposes five principles with precise implementations (p. 10), a glossary of key concepts (p. 11), annotated examples for texts, videos and audios, images and Moodle (p. 12-17), as well as suggestions for checking resources and gathering feedback from students (p. 18-19). It is written for higher education; its use for prevention, training, or information resources involves transposition (analysis Health Practices). #️⃣ #pratiquesensante #DigitalAccessibility #UniversalDesign #Inclusion #Disability #AccessibleResources #OpenEducation #Pedagogy #pratiquesensante #AccessibilitéNumérique #ConceptionUniverselle #Inclusion #Handicap #SupportsAccessibles #ÉducationOuverte #Pédagogie (translated)

Sextortion: a 100% digital national campaign on TikTok and Snapchat to help 11-17 year olds recognize blackmail, not feel guilty, and not stay alone. Fight against sextortion: launch of the awareness campaign Campaign supported by the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence Against Children (CIIVISE) Audio Capsules on Health Practices Definition, methods of operation, protective reflexes, criminal offenses, and the role of 3018: official guidelines for talking about it with young people. Health Practices Analysis and link to the source The dossier page provides a definition of sextortion, describes its methods of operation, and lists reflexes that, according to the text, "must be conveyed to young people." It introduces 3018 and the criminal offenses at stake. The press release outlines the campaign messages: the victim is not responsible, and they should not remain alone. The two pages thus provide common guidelines for addressing the topic with young people and their surroundings. Fight against sextortion: launch of the awareness campaign - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/fight-against-sextortion-launch-of-the-awareness-campaign-6235 #pratiquesensante #Sextorsion #ViolencesSexuelles #ProtectionDeLEnfance #CyberViolences #3018 #ÉducationAuNumérique #PréventionJeunesse (translated)

Brazil’s synthetic voters – when AI manufactures public opinion They look like ordinary street interviews. A reporter approaches a passer-by in a Brazilian square and asks a simple question: who will you vote for? A young voter explains why Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva deserves another term. An elderly woman says Brazil needs Flávio Bolsonaro because he represents political renewal and greater security. The locations look plausible, the microphones are visible and the answers sound much like the brief political opinions heard in television vox pops around the world. None of the people are real. Ahead of Brazil’s presidential election on 4 October, fact-checking organisation Aos Fatos identified at least 50 TikTok videos in which artificial intelligence was used to manufacture voters, reporters and apparently spontaneous political interviews. Together, the videos had accumulated around 7.4 million views by mid-August. Some promoted Lula, others Flávio Bolsonaro, while another group used synthetic characters to ridicule or stereotype supporters of one side. Aos Fatos found no apparent evidence linking the accounts producing the videos to either presidential campaign. The opinion poll that never took place The format is important. These were not conventional deepfakes in which a recognisable politician is made to say something he never said. Instead, the creators reproduced the visual language of the vox pop – the short street interview used by broadcasters and social-media creators to illustrate what ordinary people supposedly think. In pro-Lula videos, synthetic voters described themselves as beneficiaries of social programmes or credited the president with improving their lives. In videos supporting Flávio Bolsonaro, artificial interviewees associated him with political renewal, public security and fighting corruption. Other clips were openly hostile: AI-generated characters presented as poor or living in parts of Brazil’s north-east were shown in dirty clothes or run-down surroundings, declaring support for Lula because they supposedly preferred welfare payments to work. The deception is therefore subtler than fabricating a candidate’s statement. It manufactures something that political communication normally treats as evidence of public sentiment. A real vox pop may be unscientific, but the people interviewed at least exist. These videos created the appearance that identifiable social groups – young people, pensioners, welfare recipients or residents of particular regions – were spontaneously expressing political preferences when no such encounters had taken place. An electoral-law specialist interviewed by Aos Fatos described the technique as the fabrication of a “social fact that never occurred”. That captures the central innovation: AI is being used not merely to falsify political speech, but to manufacture the impression of grassroots opinion. Fifty videos, but not one proven network The available evidence does not support describing the 50 posts as a centrally controlled influence operation. Aos Fatos located them through TikTok searches and recommendations produced by the platform itself, then examined the accounts responsible for publication. Most had relatively small individual audiences, although their combined reach was substantial. The first examples identified by the investigation appeared as early as March 2026. Activity increased in June and was concentrated particularly in July and the first half of August as Brazil’s election calendar intensified. Some accounts specialised in AI-generated videos generally, including fabricated podcast-style material. Others were explicitly political or supportive of a candidate, but Aos Fatos found no apparent links between those profiles and the official Lula or Bolsonaro campaigns. That distinction is essential. The evidence demonstrates a common technique and a shared political environment, not a single command structure. Some creators may have been motivated by ideology, others by engagement or monetisation. Publicly available evidence does not establish who commissioned the individual videos or whether any coordination existed between the accounts. This decentralised model also creates a different enforcement problem from a traditional bot network. There may be no headquarters to expose and no infrastructure whose removal disables the entire operation. The format itself can be copied by anyone with access to inexpensive generative-video tools. When the algorithm mixes real and synthetic citizens Aos Fatos documented another important feature of the phenomenon: TikTok’s recommendation system placed AI-generated interviews alongside genuine street interviews. For a user scrolling quickly through the platform, the transition between an authentic citizen and an entirely fabricated one could therefore be almost invisible. In 18 per cent of the 50 videos analysed, there was no indication that the people shown had been generated using AI. After Aos Fatos provided TikTok with the videos, the company said it had removed all of them for violating its rules on edited and AI-generated media. TikTok said its policies require creators to identify synthetic content and prohibit manipulated media capable of misleading users about matters of public importance or impersonating genuine journalistic material. The issue extends beyond one platform. Factchequeado’s review of Brazil’s 2026 election campaign found that synthetic endorsements and other deepfakes had become one of the most visible forms of AI-assisted electoral misinformation, alongside fabricated candidate statements and invented scenes. Brazil already had rules for synthetic politics Brazil entered the campaign with unusually detailed electoral rules governing artificial intelligence. The Superior Electoral Court, the TSE, requires electoral propaganda using synthetic multimedia to disclose clearly that AI was used. More importantly for the fake-voter videos, its rules prohibit synthetic audio or video used to favour or harm a candidacy when it creates or alters the image or voice of a living, deceased or fictitious person. The difficulty is attribution and enforcement. When a synthetic video is published by an official campaign, responsibility can be relatively straightforward to investigate. When it comes from an apparently independent account with no demonstrated relationship to a candidate, lawyers interviewed by Aos Fatos said responsibility is more likely to fall on the individual creator, while imposing electoral sanctions on a campaign would require evidence of a connection. For the final 72 hours before the election and the 24 hours following it, the TSE has imposed additional restrictions on newly published or republished synthetic material involving candidates or public figures, reflecting the particular difficulty of correcting fabricated content immediately before voting. From deepfake politicians to synthetic electorates The Brazilian case illustrates a broader change in political manipulation. The first generation of electoral deepfakes concentrated on famous people: make a politician appear to say something damaging, or fabricate an endorsement from a celebrity. Synthetic vox pops reverse the perspective. The politician can remain completely authentic; it is the electorate around the politician that is fabricated. That changes the psychological proposition of the message. Instead of saying the candidate believes this, the video suggests people like you believe this. Age, clothing, accent, neighbourhood and social class can all be generated to construct an artificial constituency around almost any political claim. There is no evidence that the 50 Brazilian videos identified by Aos Fatos constitute a single centrally directed campaign, nor evidence that they changed voting intentions. What they demonstrate is a technique whose barrier to entry has become extremely low. AI no longer needs to forge the politician. #DISINFORMED #Episode14 #Brazil #BrazilElection2026 #Elections #ElectionDisinformation #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #SyntheticVoters #SyntheticMedia #AIAvatars #AIGeneratedVideo #VoxPop #FakeInterviews #Astroturfing #AIPropaganda #PoliticalDisinformation #InfluenceOperations #InformationWarfare #SocialMediaManipulation #TikTok #PublicOpinion #ManufacturedConsent #SyntheticPublicOpinion #DigitalInfluence #Deepfakes #ElectionIntegrity #TSE #AosFatos #FactChecking #OSINT #MediaManipulation #WRLD (translated)

Etienne Marcuz wrote that the strategic oceanic force had conducted a launch of an M51.3 missile that very morning from the nuclear submarine Le Vigilant. According to him, this launch validated the ship's return to operational cycle after three years of maintenance and constituted the first operational launch of the M51.3 from a submarine. He specified that the launch in November 2023 was a qualification test conducted from the DGA land test center. Marcuz indicated that he created an infographic with CalvaireDrach, presenting the stages of the launch, from the transmission of the order to the impact of the re-entry vehicles — without their nuclear payload — in the Atlantic Ocean, 4,700 kilometers west of the launch area. He explained that the diagram was based on American documents and that differences might exist between the French M51 and the American Trident II D5 systems, even though their general principles were common. He added that the technical details concerned were protected by confidentiality and requested that CalvaireDrach be credited in case of reuse of the infographic. #M51 #Missile #ForceOcéaniqueStrategique (translated)

On October 9, a seminar will be held by Sieps where a new analysis of the political dynamics in the European Parliament is presented, with a particular focus on the influence of right-leaning groups after the 2024 election and how this affects coalitions and majorities within EU decisions. #Europaparlamentet #EUpolitiken #koalitioner (translated)