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The author wrote that Zelensky had said the throttling of Starlink and Starshield in Ukraine continued despite denials from Washington. They said no one appeared willing to take responsibility for the policy or reverse it, and added that American allies were watching what might happen to them in a similar situation. #Zelensky #Starlink #UkrainianCrisis #UA #US

EL PAÍS reported that the Generalitat had asked the population of the regions of Gandia and Dénia to stay confined at home. It also noted that there were people trapped who were difficult to access for rescue. https://t.co/5Csc2Lqrd6 https://t.co/JzBA8tcxV4 #Gandia #Dénia #Emergencia (translated)

Can the denial and wishful thinking about Trump and Russia finally stop now? But he’s trying for peace! (Telling Ukraine to surrender, trying to enrich his cronies) But he told others to sanction Russia! (Just a show—no follow up) But he’s sanctioning Russia! (No, Congress did and he removed it)

The post’s author wrote that poverty violated human dignity and human rights, and said it should be eradicated by addressing the inequalities and injustices that sustained it. They argued that the resources and knowledge needed existed, but that political will and investment were necessary to help everyone build a life.

Magda claimed that Nawrocki was responsible for what happened that day in front of the Constitutional Tribunal. She wrote that Bogucki's speech, the head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, did not change this responsibility because he spoke on behalf of Nawrocki and — in Magda's opinion — incited people. She described it as an attempt to create a desired effect through another person while simultaneously maintaining the ability to deny responsibility. She added that the Palace wanted to provoke actions by other people's hands and then pretend that it was only observing them. #TrybunałKonstytucyjny #Polska #polityka (translated)

Operation Dark Clark – Russia built a real organisation around a false identity Most influence operations create fake people, fake websites or fake news stories. Operation Dark Clark appears to have gone considerably further: Russian operators built what looked like a functioning research organisation in Latin America, employed real people to produce genuine research and concealed from those employees who was ultimately directing their work. OpenAI disclosed the operation on 8 October after banning a cluster of accounts originating in Russia. The actors used ChatGPT while targeting countries across Latin America, principally to damage Ukraine’s reputation, manipulate domestic political debates and manage a self-described research organisation called the Social Research Center, or SRC. OpenAI assessed Dark Clark as Category Five on the six-level Breakout Scale, the first operation it has disrupted since beginning its influence-operation reporting to reach that level. A front organisation with real employees The SRC presented itself as a research platform studying subjects including Latin America’s relationship with India and the Indian diaspora. OpenAI found more than 60 articles on its website, most of them apparently original rather than plagiarised. Internal reports produced by the Russian operators discussed hiring, dismissals, salary scales, staffing and unfinished research projects, strongly suggesting that the operators controlled the organisation rather than merely collaborating with it. At the centre of the structure was “Mia Clark”, a fictitious identity reportedly used to manage social-media activity and communicate with staff. According to OpenAI, the available evidence indicates that employees working for SRC in Latin America were probably unaware that the organisation was being directed by Russian actors. They interviewed experts, conducted research and wrote papers in what appears to have been good faith. The deception therefore existed primarily at the organisational level: much of the work was real, but the identity and strategic purpose of the institution commissioning it were not. OpenAI This is one reason Dark Clark differs from the familiar model of a troll farm. A reader encountering an SRC paper might be looking at research genuinely written by a Latin American employee based on genuine interviews. The manipulation lies further upstream, in who built the institution, selected its direction and controlled its infrastructure. From forged emails to real events The operation also appears to have attempted something more ambitious than online persuasion: inducing real people to produce events that could later be turned into propaganda. In May 2026, according to the operators’ internal reports, they created an email address impersonating Lima’s regional education authorities and instructed schools to organise activities about Ukraine for a cultural-diversity event. The instructions included references to Stepan Bandera, whose historical legacy remains particularly contentious in Poland and parts of Eastern Europe. The operators claimed that some schools complied, replied to the false address and sent photographs of the events. OpenAI could not independently verify every claim contained in the operators’ reports. It did, however, find Peruvian reporting matching the story, followed by publications in Poland and an English-language outlet in Hungary. Some coverage included comments from a Polish MEP calling for people displaying what he described as anti-Polish attitudes to be declared persona non grata. OpenAI therefore concluded that the fabricated starting point appears to have entered genuine political debate across national borders. The mechanism is unusually effective because the final photographs need not themselves be fabricated. If people can be tricked into staging a real event on the basis of a forged instruction, the operation creates authentic visual evidence of something that was artificially initiated. The same method in Ecuador and Bolivia Dark Clark’s internal reports describe similar efforts elsewhere. In Ecuador, the operators claimed they used a fake education email to encourage schools to stage ceremonies involving President Daniel Noboa and Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater. Ecuadorian media subsequently covered a matching controversy, and the country’s education minister issued a detailed denial. Other Ecuador-focused material included fabricated audio attributed to Ukraine’s consul and a false television report alleging that Noboa’s government was recruiting Ecuadorians to fight in Ukraine. Local fact-checker Lupa found that the supposed Teleamazonas report had never been broadcast, that images had been taken from Instagram, that the audio was AI-generated and that a company named in a supposed recruitment contract did not exist in Ecuador’s corporate registry. In Bolivia, an internal report described a fake audio recording supposedly made by an employee of state water company EPSAS during anti-government protests. It claimed that water supplies to La Paz would be cut and a state of emergency declared. The allegation produced a fact-check and an official denial. OpenAI says the operators explicitly described their objective as worsening the political crisis surrounding the demonstrations. Possible links to the post-Wagner influence machine Dark Clark did not emerge in a vacuum. The operators repeatedly asked ChatGPT about Politology and La Compania, names associated in previous investigations with the Russian influence apparatus that developed from structures once connected to Yevgeny Prigozhin. Forbidden Stories and its partners obtained 1,431 pages of internal documents describing a network known as “The Company”, which they reported had grown to almost 100 operatives and was conducting influence projects across roughly 30 Global South countries. Their investigation found that the organisation moved under the supervision of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, after Prigozhin’s death. Its documented budget for ten months of activity in 2024 was approximately €7.3 million. Two older Argentina campaigns claimed in Dark Clark’s internal reports — a false story about Javier Milei buying Cartier collars for his dogs and the staging of anti-Milei graffiti — had already been independently attributed by investigative journalists to Politology/La Compania. That is significant corroboration, but it is not enough to prove that every Dark Clark activity was run by the same organisational structure. AI was the back office, not the mastermind Perhaps the most important finding concerns artificial intelligence itself. In most documented cases, the Russians were not using ChatGPT to generate the propaganda seen by the public. Their principal use was administrative: drafting reports for an unknown superior, summarising operations, translating material and recording the supposed success of campaigns. Those reports also expose a weakness in the operators’ own measurement. OpenAI found instances in which they tried to claim credit for developments they had probably not caused, suggesting that they were not only attempting to manipulate Latin American audiences but also presenting an inflated picture of their effectiveness to whoever was supervising them. Dark Clark nevertheless broke further into the real world than any influence operation OpenAI had previously disrupted. Under the Brookings framework, Category Five means that an operation has escaped its original network and been amplified by high-profile individuals such as politicians. Dark Clark crossed that threshold because fabricated narratives appear to have provoked governmental denials, mainstream reporting and political comment in several countries. Its most important innovation was therefore not a particularly convincing deepfake. It was the construction of a partly genuine institution around a concealed foreign controller. The research could be real. The employees could be real. The interviews could be real. What was false was who they were ultimately working for. Sources OpenAI — Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations https://openai.com/index/disrupting-ai-enabled-false-front-operations/ Forbidden Stories — Propaganda Machine: Russia’s foreign influence strategy across three continents https://forbiddenstories.org/propaganda-machine-secret-documents-reveal-russias-foreign-influence-strategy-across-three-continents/ Forbidden Stories — Ghost Journalists, Cash and Kremlin Scripts: Argentina https://forbiddenstories.org/ghost-journalists-cash-and-kremlin-scripts-how-russian-operatives-tried-to-influence-argentinian-media/ openDemocracy — Russian influence operation in Bolivia https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/russia-bolivia-south-america-putin-evo-morales-wagner-prigozhin-covert-operations-propaganda-disinformation-foreign-interference/ Lupa Media — Fake Teleamazonas report about recruiting Ecuadorians for Ukraine https://lupa.com.ec/verificaciones/noboa-mercenarios-ucrania-ecuador/ Brookings Institution — The Breakout Scale https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-breakout-scale-measuring-the-impact-of-influence-operations/ Keywords: #DISINFORMED #Episode17 #OperationDarkClark #DarkClark #Russia #LatinAmerica #RussianInfluence #RussianDisinformation #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #FalseFront #FrontOrganisation #FakeInstitution #SocialResearchCenter #SRC #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #NarrativeManipulation #SourceLaundering #InstitutionalManipulation #ForgedDocuments #FakeAudio #PoliticalInfluence #CovertInfluence #Peru #Ecuador #Bolivia #Argentina #Ukraine #Politology #LaCompania #TheCompany #SVR #WagnerLegacy #PropagandaMachine #GlobalSouth #BreakoutScale #OSINT #MediaManipulation #WRLD

The coach of the Czech football team, Santi Denia, faces the threat of the worst losing streak in the history of Czech football after a series of four consecutive defeats in the Nations League and a recent loss to Mexico at the World Cup. So far, he has not received significant criticism from fans thanks to his efforts to improve the playing style and a favorable impression despite a weakened team. #fotbal #trenér #Českárepublika (translated)

The coach of the Czech football national team, Santi Denia, expressed his emotional experience of life in the Czech Republic and responded positively to the change in striker Patrik Schick's attitude regarding his possible return to the national team, emphasizing the improving atmosphere and performance of the team despite their previous defeats in the Nations League. #ČeskáFotbalováReprezentace #SantiDenia #LigaNárodů (translated)

Més Blaugrana reported, citing The Guardian, that Santi Denia, the coach of the Czech Republic, had compared Anthony Gordon to Lamine Yamal. He described Gordon as young, bold, fast, and strong in one-on-one situations, and believed that he was performing at the same level as Yamal. #Football #Sport #JeunesTalents (translated)

The sports journalist wrote that the post-match interview between Santi Denia and Luboš Kalouda after the match with Spain took place in Spanish. He stated that Czech Television responded to numerous comments by doing so. https://t.co/YlXrAElMWr #fotbal #rozhovor #Španělsko (translated)

The football transfers stated that Santi Denia appreciated the efforts of the Czech players and was proud of them despite their defeat. According to Denia, the Czechs tried to play and compete against the Spaniards, but he believed it was not possible. He did not want to comment on the referee. https://t.co/5hJVm0ORbA #fotbal #Česko #Španělsko (translated)

The Czech pond appreciated what Denia managed to instill in the team, as well as how the players dealt with it. He noted that the team lost all three matches, but showed dignified performances against the absolute top. He also wrote that today’s match should have ended 2:2, in his opinion. #fotbal #sport #tým (translated)

Petr Nerad stated that Santi Denia's work with the national team made sense to him, even though he believed the team still had room for improvement. He described the chosen presentation method as appealing and wrote that it could attract spectators to the stadium. According to him, the national team had a foundation to build upon after the Nations League; the decisive test was to be the qualification for the European Championship. #fotbal #reprezentace #ME2024 (translated)

The Spanish Men's National Football Team noted that Luis de la Fuente and Santi Denia met again in a stadium in Oviedo as rivals, ahead of the Spain-Czech Republic match, and described them as good friends. #NationsLeague https://t.co/FxM4xP83nl #Fútbol #España #Afición (translated)

I don't know the results. The national team can finally be watched, Denia is quite entertaining so far! The indictment against the management of the association, that such a coach did not come after the end of Jaroslav Šilhavý, we wasted 2 championships with 2 tools from ČKD. Keep it up! 🫡 https://t.co/RJHZjRoNVS #fotbal #reprezentace #trenér (translated)