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My stupid recipe, Doctor Restrepo, achieved the highest employment rate, the lowest rates of hunger and poverty of the 21st century, and some of the highest levels of per capita income in the last quarter of my government in the entire history of Colombia. You and Abelardo today, just as you did in Duque's government during the first month of his administration, shot up unemployment almost to the double-digit figures that you handed over to my government. That's called a step back! It's unfortunate that a part of the Colombian electorate believes that Colombia's destiny is to go backward. Again the IMF, again over-indebtedness that you promoted, Dr. Restrepo, by giving subsidies to the rich and imposing a gasoline subsidy paid with the budget. These days, that is called economic ignorance and anachronism. I propose my support from the opposition to make a great agreement for the equitable progress of Colombia. What allowed us to have the best social economic figures of the century was: 1. Leaving hydrocarbon extraction and moving to real production in industry, commerce, and tourism. Prioritizing production, that is, the transformation of materials to make other materials for a good life for people, automatically raises employment levels and overall productivity. 2. Raising the minimum wage every year to the level of the vital basket for a family. This was demanded by the social doctrine of the Catholic Church in the encyclical "Rerum Novarum" by Leo XIII, and you, as a fervent Catholic, should apply it. In that encyclical and in that of Francis I about the "common home," and in that of Leo XIV about "a dignified Humanity," you would find a comprehensive agreement with the progressivism I lead. 3. A leading role of the state in the economy in strategic matters such as tariffs for industrialization, abundant and cheap credit for small and medium-sized industries, cheap credit for industry, food production, exports, and zero-interest credit for any national industry that produces an increase in Colombia’s computational capacity, energy, and railroads. 4. Leading the decarbonization of the economy through a 100% clean electricity generation matrix, replacing the prohibitively expensive gas with extremely cheap and abundant solar energy in Colombia. Remember that in my government I managed to increase growth in the four years by 500% in the naval industry and 200% in the electric automotive industry. 5. Redistributing another million hectares among farmers and doubling food production in the country to lower the prices of the family basket and increase real wages. You and we can lower the interest rate set by the Board of the Bank of the Republic by configuring another majority in the board that is friendly to production and work. 5. And if you don’t want, Mr. Restrepo, to reach agreements given the mind-numbing sectarianism that predominates, then just remember my advice: work and nature are the sources of wealth, and in Colombia, the real wage as an expression of the value of work allows the expansion of the internal market, both formal and informal, and increases the number of companies and workforce. When the country decides to return to legitimate institutions, it might be too late for you, but these will be the economic bases already experienced with positive data for a national agreement. (translated)

Iran’s cognitive warfare – when AI becomes the operating layer of state propaganda Iranian state-linked influence operators were not using artificial intelligence simply to write faster social-media posts. According to Anthropic’s September 2026 threat intelligence report, three separate operations connected to Iranian propaganda institutions were using Claude to help construct the machinery behind what the operators themselves called “soft war” and “cognitive warfare” – non-military efforts intended to shape public opinion inside Iran and abroad. Anthropic linked the activity to the Islamic Culture and Communications Organization (ICCO), which operates under Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance; the Islamic Propaganda Office of Khorasan Razavi; and the Bina Cultural Observatory, part of the Islamic Propaganda Organization. The company said each operation was run by someone working within or on behalf of the named institution. The attribution was based on a combination of account telemetry, institutional references disclosed during conversations, branded documents and open-source corroboration. Anthropic subsequently removed the accounts. AI as an operational headquarters The most significant feature of the operation was the role assigned to AI. Claude was used to develop campaign plans, doctrine manuals, coded project portfolios, persona systems, target databases, early-warning protocols, amplification schedules and ministerial planning documents. Anthropic described the model as the principal administrative and operational layer supporting the three campaigns, allowing relatively small groups of operators to create organisational structures and planning material that would otherwise have required a much larger staff. This distinction matters. The reported use of AI went considerably beyond content generation. Operators were using the model to help organise how influence activity should function: which audiences to target, which identities should deliver particular narratives, how official material should be repackaged and when amplification should take place. Human operators still determined objectives and supplied the underlying political doctrine; AI helped translate those decisions into an operational system. Anthropic found that all three operations explicitly connected their activity to Jihad al-Tabyin, often translated as “explanatory jihad”, a concept used within the Iranian state system to frame information activity as both a strategic and ideological responsibility. In internal planning material examined by the company, this doctrine was not merely rhetorical: it informed manuals and campaign structures used by the operators. ‘Not the narrator, but the director’ One sentence contained in the ICCO material captures the model particularly clearly. According to Anthropic, an operator described the role of Iranian cultural attachés as being “not to be the narrator, but the director” of the narrative. The distinction reveals the logic of attribution laundering. Instead of publishing an overt state message and asking foreign audiences to believe it, the operator attempts to create the appearance that the same narrative emerged independently from journalists, activists, foreign writers or ordinary citizens. Anthropic found that Claude was used specifically to make content appear to come from foreign authors or independent media organisations and to design hashtag campaigns that looked grassroots rather than centrally organised. The ICCO operation reportedly used the organisation’s international cultural network as part of this structure. Anthropic found ministerial-level documents carrying official ICCO branding, including a nine-part international influence portfolio. This makes the operation particularly significant because the infrastructure was not limited to anonymous social-media accounts; it intersected with formal state institutions and an existing network of cultural representation abroad. A multilingual content factory A second operation was associated with the Islamic Propaganda Office of Khorasan Razavi and what Anthropic described as a “cognitive warfare command room” operating from a seminary in Mashhad. Its organisers ran a multi-province content production system known internally as Manjanegh, or “Catapult”. According to Anthropic, dozens of activists were involved in repackaging publicly available reporting from Iranian security institutions under different personas so that the material no longer appeared directly connected to those institutions. The network used Claude to transform official government intelligence bulletins into customised material in Farsi, Arabic, Urdu, Malay, Spanish and English, while planning expansion into a total of 20 languages. Distribution extended across Iranian platforms such as Eitaa, Bale and Rubika and international services including X, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok and YouTube. Anthropic also documented paid amplification across more than 100 Iranian channels, including channels associated with IRGC narratives. The scale should nevertheless be interpreted carefully. Anthropic documented production infrastructure and some real-world dissemination, but it did not demonstrate that all planned campaigns were fully deployed or that they meaningfully changed public opinion. The company placed the operation in Category Three of its Breakout Scale, indicating multi-platform activity with content observed in external distribution channels, rather than evidence of strategic impact on entire populations. From security bulletins to apparently independent voices The Bina Cultural Observatory operation provides another example of the same architecture. Anthropic linked a director-level official at Bina to activity in which Claude generated messaging in the voice of an IRGC spokesperson. During the 2026 US–Israel–Iran war, the network also attributed false claims to Western institutions including CSIS, Brookings and RAND. The apparent objective was to make Iranian state-aligned claims look as though they had been independently validated by respected foreign research organisations. That technique is more sophisticated than simply publishing propaganda under a false name. It attempts to manufacture a chain of external validation: official information is transformed into apparently independent commentary, which can then be recirculated as evidence that outside observers have reached the same conclusion. Anthropic also found target databases naming international officials and Iranian opposition figures, as well as aggressive counter-narrative material directed against the Bahá’í community. These findings show that the infrastructure was designed not only for broad messaging but also for targeted influence activity against specific groups and individuals. What AI changed The Iranian operations described by Anthropic did not create a new doctrine of influence. Iran has used cultural institutions, official media, aligned organisations and covert or semi-covert online networks for years. What AI changed was the economics and organisational capacity of that model. A relatively small team could use the system to draft doctrine, create personas, translate material, structure target databases, produce campaign calendars and generate multiple versions of the same message for different audiences. The operator remained responsible for intent, political direction and selection of targets. AI reduced the amount of human labour required to turn those decisions into a functioning influence operation. The most revealing part of the case is therefore not that an Iranian propaganda network used a chatbot. It is that AI was being treated as part of the back office of information warfare – a system for converting state doctrine into apparently decentralised, multilingual and plausibly independent voices. Sources Anthropic — Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026 Iran International — Iran state-aligned accounts used Claude to push IRGC narratives https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609105561 BNE IntelliNews — Yemen missile cell used AI to write guidance software, Anthropic says https://new.intellinews.com/articles/yemen-missile-cell-used-ai-to-write-guidance-software-anthropic-says-467296 This is Beirut — Anthropic report details Iranian propaganda operations https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/news/politics/anthropic-report-details-iranian-propaganda-operations-and-yemen-missile-development-using-claude Anthropic report — PDF mirror https://static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2026/09/anthropic-detecting-and-countering-091026-1.pdf Keywords #DISINFORMED #Episode11 #Iran #IranianInfluence #IranianPropaganda #CognitiveWarfare #SoftWar #JihadAlTabyin #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPropaganda #GenerativeAI #ClaudeAI #Anthropic #SyntheticMedia #NarrativeManipulation #NarrativeLaundering #AttributionLaundering #PersonaNetworks #Astroturfing #SocialMediaManipulation #DigitalInfluence #StatePropaganda #IslamicCultureAndCommunicationsOrganization #ICCO #IslamicPropagandaOrganization #KhorasanRazavi #IRGC #MultilingualInfluence #Targeting #Amplification #OSINT #WRLD

I can see telltale signs of Europe’s protectionism reflexes at work. US and China have already won the race for frontier models. Accept that. Fix GDPR, AI Act, and the Digital Market Act, which as they stand will result in Europeans not having access to the best AI tools early. #Europa #InteligenciaArtificial #MercadoDigital #EU #US #CN

«Con questo investimento l’Italia rafforza il proprio ruolo di piattaforma produttiva dell’economia digitale – ha commentato il ministro Urso – e rafforza la sua sovranità tecnologica e industriale, contribuendo a rendere più solida e resiliente la filiera europea dei semiconduttori. Un risultato importante, frutto di un grande lavoro di squadra, che porterà a Novara il primo impianto di produzione di chiplet in Europa e farà del territorio un nuovo polo di riferimento per le tecnologie emergenti. L’Italia è tornata attrattiva, capace di catalizzare l’interesse dei principali player tecnologici globali». #SiliconBox #Microchip #Investimenti

🤝 Azerbaijan on a way to become new regional AI superstar with @SpaceXAI and @Grok to support transformation 🇦🇿 🚀 Acording to Memorandum of Understanding, signed by Azerbaijan's Ministry of Digital Development and Transport Rashad Hasanov and Dustin Yelinek, SpaceXAI parties https://t.co/dYuJC5Tlby #Azerbaijan #AI #SpaceX #AZ

Starting from October 1, 2026, several important regulations will come into force in Austria that affect consumer rights, including new warranty guidelines for electrical devices, permission for digital receipts, stricter regulations for e-mopeds, and obligations to use reusable packaging. (translated)

President @NawrockiKn signed the law implementing part of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). We have another collision with the voters of the hard right from the second round of elections in 2025, whose share in the total pool to the right of the center in 2030 will be higher than it is now. (translated)

»Wenn Frauen damit rechnen müssen, dass von ihnen KI-generierte Nacktbilder auftauchen, sobald sie in die Politik gehen und öffentlich sichtbar werden, dann haben wir ein demokratisches Problem.«»Man hat uns gegen unseren Willen ausgezogen«, sagt Schilling. #Deepfakes #digitaleGewalt #FrauenInDerPolitik

Russian attacks on Ukrainian telecommunications and data infrastructure in recent weeks, including targeted strikes on major mobile operators, significantly disrupt internet and communication services in the country, indicating a new tactic from Moscow aimed at the physical destruction of Ukraine's digital backbone. (translated)

La creación de European Network for Payments demuestra la capacidad del sector bancario europeo para unir fuerzas y construir un sistema de pagos soberano, eficiente e innovador al servicio de los ciudadanos. En Bizum, estamos orgullosos de contribuir, junto con nuestros socios europeos, a una infraestructura interoperable que permita realizar pagos transfronterizos sencillos, inmediatos y seguros, preservando al mismo tiempo la confianza y la experiencia de usuario de cada solución local. Esta iniciativa refuerza la autonomía estratégica de Europa y allana el camino hacia una nueva generación de pagos digitales conectados, diseñados para responder a las necesidades de consumidores y comercios de todo el continente«La creación de European Network for Payments demuestra la capacidad del sector bancario europeo para unir fuerzas y construir un sistema de pagos soberano, eficiente e innovador al servicio de los ciudadanos. En Bizum, estamos orgullosos de contribuir, junto con nuestros socios europeos, a una infraestructura interoperable que permita realizar pagos transfronterizos sencillos, inmediatos y seguros, preservando al mismo tiempo la confianza y la experiencia de usuario de cada solución local. Esta iniciativa refuerza la autonomía estratégica de Europa y allana el camino hacia una nueva generación de pagos digitales conectados, diseñados para responder a las necesidades de consumidores y comercios de todo el continente», ha afirmado Fernando Rodríguez, director general adjunto de Expansión Internacional de Bizum. #BizumEuropeo #PagosTransfronterizos #Madrid

Už jsem jim to zadal k prověření. Jednal jsem s nimi, aby mě seznámili s tím stavem a s řešením situace. Vyhodnocují to a poté, co budu s jejich závěry seznámen, případně rozhodnu o nějakých opatřeních,„Už jsem jim to zadal k prověření. Jednal jsem s nimi, aby mě seznámili s tím stavem a s řešením situace. Vyhodnocují to a poté, co budu s jejich závěry seznámen, případně rozhodnu o nějakých opatřeních,“ řekl ve středu Novinkám ministr vnitra Lubomír Metnar (ANO). #OxygenForensics #bezpečnost #digitálnípráva

The Czech police and the Ministry of the Interior are working to analyze the situation surrounding the company Oxygen Forensics, which has been accused by U.S. authorities of links to the Russian intelligence service, with its data collection products recommended for use in a special regime until the situation is clarified. (translated)