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Torsten Heinrich wrote that the image of two undressed seniors was obviously created with artificial intelligence. However, this did not change his assessment that looting and arson justified a consistent intervention by the state – even if no 80-year-olds had been undressed. He questioned why someone had created such an image with ChatGPT, as the actual actions were already bad enough, and thus no more serious crimes had been alleged. His disappointment with the passivity of the French state towards criminals was independent of that. Regarding comments, Heinrich wrote that some took the fake image as an excuse to dismiss the outrage over the riots altogether, as if the destructions could be undone by it. This gave the image an unexpected political significance. #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Politik #Gesellschaft (translated)

The author congratulated Senegal, which he indicated has been chosen to host the Francophonie Games in 2031. He emphasized that these meetings highlight sports, culture, and young talents from the five continents, and also extended his congratulations to Guinea. https://t.co/fcaKILjrNs #Sénégal #JeuxDeLaFrancophonie #Culture #SN #GN (translated)

CohenTheBarbarian wrote that BLM was also a proper manipulation in his opinion. He stated that unlike the French, traders could defend themselves when the state left them to it. At the same time, he urged people never to let themselves be disarmed. #BLM #občanskápráva #protest (translated)

Sacy stated that he had completed a 35-day trip to China, which he described as the best of his life, and said he would miss the country, especially the xiao long bao. He thanked Riot for the opportunity to continue living his dream as a streamer and for the trips he took during this phase. The player also said that the victory in the 2022 Champions had motivated young people and shown that it was possible to achieve difficult goals. Seeing the youngest team in the championship lift the trophy, he added, made him feel like he had achieved another dream. Sacy said he would be returning to Brazil soon and that he missed home, Gabbie, and the chat — but less so Galaxio — before thanking Shanghai. #Viagem #China #Streaming (translated)

Deltan Dallagnol stated that, during the Band debate, the marketer Sidônio Palmeira allegedly showed a notebook to Lula, pointed out excerpts, and made signals while the president responded. Dallagnol questioned whether Lula was "cheating" during the debate. He declared that the end of the Lula era was set for October 25 and said Flávio finished the first round in the lead. He also stated that the PT was counting on the relaxation of voters and asked for votes for Flávio Bolsonaro, number 22, in addition to encouraging the sharing of the video with people who did not vote or chose another candidate. #Debate #Lula #Eleições2023 (translated)

𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 — 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 A newly exposed US political influence network appears to have been designed around a different target from most election propaganda. Its primary audience was not necessarily the voter reading a website, but the automated systems that search the web on behalf of AI chatbots. Threat-intelligence company VisionHeight initially identified 37 anonymous websites presenting themselves as state or local news organisations, opinion publications and national issue sites. By 15 October, the company's co-founder and chief technology officer, Nitsan Daniel, told CyberScoop that the investigation had expanded the observed footprint to 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟰 𝗨𝗦 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟰𝟲𝟬 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀. The states identified were Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. The infrastructure shows unusually strong signs of coordination. All 37 domains in the original dataset were registered during a single evening; 36 were registered within approximately eight minutes. On 30 September alone, the network published roughly 𝟭𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 using common templates and four recurring layouts. VisionHeight assesses that the scale and production pattern strongly suggest extensive automation, although that does not by itself prove which generative-AI system, if any, produced the text. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹. Candidate profiles can run to about 5,000 words, accompanied by similarly long voter guides containing 50 to 63 questions phrased in the style of queries someone might put to an AI assistant. Across the network, formulations such as a candidate being “the stronger choice” were repeated hundreds of times. One profile contained the phrase 34 times. In several voter guides examined by VisionHeight, the favoured candidate was named more than 110 times while an opponent appeared only six or seven times. The websites were also configured to make themselves unusually accessible to AI. Their crawler instructions explicitly welcomed 17 automated systems associated with companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Meta, Amazon and Apple. Some pages were marked in machine-readable metadata as news articles, while apparently separate publications cited one another. The result is a manufactured ecosystem in which several apparently independent local sources can reinforce the same conclusion. That is the central technique. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴. The more immediate objective appears to be manipulation of the retrieval and search layer: place highly optimised material online, make it easy for automated crawlers to index, create the appearance of corroboration, and increase the chance that an AI assistant retrieves those pages when answering a political question. There is evidence that the network crossed that boundary. VisionHeight says it confirmed that 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 cited Tar Heel State Report as the first source in at least one response. Separately, one of the network's candidate pages reached third place in a Google search six days after publication, above Ballotpedia for the tested query. These findings demonstrate that the material can enter AI-relevant search and retrieval pipelines. They do 𝗻𝗼𝘁 demonstrate that the operation changed anyone's vote, nor establish how frequently major chatbots have used the network. The timing matters because AI has become part of the election-information environment. An AAPC Foundation survey of 1,568 likely US voters found that about one in five planned to use AI to investigate a race on their ballot, while 38 per cent reported having received election information through an AI-generated search summary. A separate NewsGuard audit found that leading chatbots frequently cited partisan websites disguised as local journalism without clearly identifying their political affiliations. The newly identified network appears to take that existing vulnerability one step further by constructing content specifically around the way machines search and summarise information. 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁? 𝗔𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿. VisionHeight has not attributed the operation to any individual, campaign, company, political party or foreign government. No confirmed name of an operator has been publicly established. Nitsan Daniel is the researcher who helped expose the network, not a person connected to its operation. Some components have explicitly partisan branding. VisionHeight's indicators include domains such as Affordability Democrats, Democratic Women House, Public Safety Democrats and Republican Incumbent Watch, while the live Affordability Democrats site promotes Democratic candidates across 11 competitive House races. That provides evidence about the political direction of some of the published material, but it does 𝗻𝗼𝘁 establish who commissioned, financed or operated the infrastructure, and it would be unjustified to attribute it to the Democratic Party or any particular campaign. The network also appears broader than congressional politics. The live Tar Heel State Report has carried material on county commission and judicial contests, illustrating why the method may be particularly effective in down-ballot races where established local reporting is thin. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲. Propaganda no longer has to persuade a human being directly. It can instead attempt to shape the information environment from which an apparently neutral machine constructs its answer. 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗦: Active / newly exposed and expanding as of 15–16 October 2026. 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘: High regarding coordinated infrastructure and AI-oriented design; moderate regarding the full current scale; attribution unknown. 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗦 VisionHeight — primary investigation, “Someone Is Manipulating Your AI to Swing Your Vote” https://www.visionheight.com/resources/someone-is-manipulating-your-ai-to-swing-your-vote CyberScoop — Derek B. Johnson, 15 October 2026 https://cyberscoop.com/ai-chatbots-election-influence-hyperlocal-networks/ Tar Heel State Report — live network site used for OSINT verification https://tarheelstatereport.com/ Affordability Democrats — live network site https://affordabilitydemocrats.com/ AAPC Foundation — 2026 AI Voter Study https://theaapc.org/release-foundation-research/ NPR — reporting on voters using AI chatbots for the 2026 midterms https://www.wusf.org/2026-10-05/people-are-asking-chatgpt-to-help-them-decide-how-to-vote-in-the-midterms NewsGuard — “Pink Slime Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms” https://www.newsguardtech.com/press/pink-slime-is-infecting-ai-chatbots-ahead-of-the-midterms/ 𝗞𝗘𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗦 #Disinformed #Disinformation #Propaganda #InfluenceOperations #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIChatbots #ElectionSecurity #USMidterms #USElections #InformationWarfare #CognitiveWarfare #OSINT #ThreatIntelligence #CyberSecurity #DataPoisoning #RetrievalManipulation #SearchManipulation #GenerativeAI #LLM #AIManipulation #PoliticalInfluence #FakeNews #LocalNews #PinkSlime #Perplexity #ElectionIntegrity #InformationIntegrity #DigitalPropaganda #AIsecurity

Sahra Wagenknecht wrote that the BSW is continuing its substantive work and is preparing a proposal in Saxony-Anhalt against the settlement of an Israeli armaments company in Sangerhausen. The Left Party supported the concern in the election campaign; all other factions are also invited to join the initiative. Peace must stand above every "firewall," she stated. #Frieden #Politik #SachsenAnhalt (translated)

Piotr Kusznieruk wrote that the president also exercises executive power, according to Article 10 of the Constitution, and the Sejm controls the government based on Article 95. Referring to Włodzimierz Czarzasty, he stated that his statement demonstrated a misunderstanding of the constitutional roles of state bodies, and he assessed that the Speaker of the Sejm should know the Constitution before he starts explaining it. #Konstytucja #Polska #Prawo (translated)

Roberto Motta said that the PT had suggested that people search on Google and recommended looking for information about the cases of Alex Schomaker, Rhuan Maycon, Lucas Terra, João Hélio, Maria Cláudia Del’Isola, Felipe Caffé and Liana Friedenbach, Isabela Nardoni, Henri Borel and Tim Lopes. He stated that Brazil recorded more than 40,000 murders per year and that, during the first four terms of the PT, there had been 875,000 homicides. #Brasil #Violência #Homicídios (translated)

🟥 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻 Provinzial-Niederlassung Niederkrüchten spendet für Feuerwehr Die Feuerwehren in Nordrhein-Westfalen und die Provinzial Versicherung pflegen seit vielen Jahren eine enge Partnerschaft. Dabei stehen Themen wie Brandschutzerziehung und -aufklärung im Mittelpunkt. Seit vielen Jahren unterstützt die Provinzial-Niederlassung Niederkrüchten die … weiterlesen → https://schau.jetzt/ah91h Foto: Freiwillige Feuerwehr Niederkrüchten Reaktionen gelten der Freiwillige Feuerwehr Niederkrüchten Provinzial Versicherung #FeuerwehrenORG #feuerwehr #spende

SPACE LIBERDADE reported that an AtlasIntel survey for the Presidency indicated Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) with 51.1% of valid votes and Lula (PT) with 48.9%. According to the publication, the variations were −1.7 and +1.7 points, respectively, and the margin of error was ±1 percentage point. https://t.co/A19nbTCrY4 #Eleições2024 #Brasil #Pesquisa (translated)

Laudelino said that he was closely following the situation in France, a country where he worked for a French company, studied the language, and had friends. In his assessment, the French situation resembled that of Brazil: although he considered the people good, he stated that they had lost the means to have their will respected. He wrote that in both countries, the parties, the press, and the state apparatus were leftist and that representative democracy had failed, leaving the interests of the population as a secondary concern. He also mentioned that there were already discussions about restoring the monarchy in France. Regarding French politics, he noted that Marie le Pen, a right-wing candidate, was emerging as the favorite, while the political structure resisted the possibility of losing space or rights. According to Laudelino, the French state consumed 57% of GDP per year, and since Mitterrand, the political proposal had been to continue spending and raising taxes. He stated that France was a Christian country but had become socialist and, for that reason, was bankrupt. As a solution for France and Brazil, he pointed to the past and cited Vendée, Louis IX, and Joan of Arc, in addition to criticizing the French Revolution, Bonapartism, and socialism. In conclusion, he said that the problem of both countries was the "software." #França #Democracia #História (translated)

Aleksander Twardowski addressed Marcin Przydacz, writing that the moment has come for his side to enter the hall, clap, and chant Donald Trump’s name. He also described a scene where couples were dancing the polonaise, someone was kissing newborns, and the president in the back of the hall was "pressing 200 on his chest." #DonaldTrump #Polska #Polonez (translated)

Magda pointed out the change in Adam Bielan's position regarding Braun. She wrote that on September 19, Bielan ruled out joint governance with Braun, and on October 13, he stated that PiS did not intend to form a coalition with him. According to Magda, on October 19, Bielan declared that no American had talked to him about Braun and that Americans would not decide the shape of the future coalition. Magda assessed that PiS voters are thus bringing Braun into the limelight. #Polityka #PiS #Koalicje (translated)