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Teleco SCCP compared Corinthians to a club that, according to him, was organized, financially responsible, had governance, and did not face recurring episodes of corruption. In contrast, he associated Corinthians with Osmar, Augusto, Duilio, Andres, Tuma, and other lifetime members. He described the team as very expensive, uncommitted, and technically weak. He also said that some groups were trying to fight the system and were seeking an intervention, while organized fan groups were more focused on barbecues and publications about the following year's Carnival. Teleco stated that Marcelo Paz had courage and criticized the hiring of a coach who, according to him, had not managed a team for seven years and had ties to Marcelo Goldfarb's group. He added that Goldfarb had already said he would own Corinthians one day. The author concluded that Parque São Jorge would need to "burn" or Corinthians would cease to exist. #Corinthians #Futebol #Governança (translated)

The BTS Project Brazil stated that leftist publications faced a possible wave of censorship on social media in recent weeks, especially on TikTok and also on X. According to the profile, videos with allegations and information of public interest received warnings for unverified content. The profile mentioned that some of the videos dealt with alleged crimes attributed to a presidential candidate and his supporters, as well as the fire at UFPE and behaviors it classified as violent by people linked to the right during peaceful protests organized by the left. It questioned why this type of content received warnings and encouraged followers to share, download, and repost the videos. The publication included the hashtags #FandomsNoMasp, #FandomsComLula, and #ArmysComLula. #FandomsNoMasp #FandomsComLula #ArmysComLula #Censura #LiberdadeDeExpressão #Democracia (translated)

The author noted that an editorial from COPE, which he described as the bishops' radio, called it "a disaster" that Spain ended up like Meloni's Italy. He also accused the Episcopal Conference of starting an electoral campaign against VOX and argued that it had never done the same against the communists or ETA. https://t.co/ITBLRm6XKR #España #elecciones #conferenciadobispo #ES #IT (translated)

In Luhansk, in the church occupied by the Russians, clergy have started selling talismans and potions that are supposed to protect soldiers from drone attacks and an outbreak of plague, in light of recent troubling events related to this disease in Russia. #Ługańsk #dżuma #wojnaUkrainie (translated)

The author wrote that the former Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller had recounted to the newspaper Berlingske an episode that he deemed highly compromising regarding Navi Pillay, the Nobel Peace Prize winner. The author placed the episode in 2008. #Nobel #Danimarca #Pace #DK (translated)

Ibrahim Abubakar, a member of the commission and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at University College London (UCL), explained that the purpose of the assessment is not to instill fear but to provide decision-makers with information that helps them prevent the consequences of these risks. #AmenințăriGlobale #RăzboiNuclear #CrizaClimatică (translated)

We do not start from the position: 'Look, we want to scare you - humanity faces so many dangers.' We start from the assumption that these are, if you are a decision-maker at the global or national level today, potential threats that you may face, and this is the extent to which you can actually change something by taking action. Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at University College London and committee member Ibrahim Abubakar emphasized that their aim is not to frighten the public. #jedrskavojna #umetnainteligenca #globalnegrožnje (translated)

InteSosse described the image as epic and wrote that the politician Thand had not followed the developments in Sweden since 2012. They claimed that Helldén was afraid that a market liberal would enter the room and mocked Lind for seeking advice from the birds in their hairstyle. Andersson's gaze was described by InteSosse as perpetually hateful and Nooshi as constantly absent. https://t.co/gl6ZOQdwCj #Sverige #politik #samhälle (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

In episode 171 of the podcast, the school decree of September 30, 2026, is discussed, which establishes a cap of 30% foreign students per class and other measures against multilingualism, examining the opinions of experts in the field of languages and education. #plurilinguismo #didattica #DecretoScuola (translated)

Optogenetics, a Nobel Prize-winning discovery in Medicine, promises to revolutionize treatments for diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's by precisely intervening in brain circuits, although significant obstacles remain before its widespread application in humans. #Optogenetica #PremiulNobel #Neuroscience (translated)

Now we start from the perspective of "look, we want to scare you - we have X threats that humanity is facing." We start from the premise that if you are today a decision-maker, whether at the global multilateral level or at the national level, these are the potential threats you may face, and this is the scope through which, if you take action, you can really make a difference. Ibrahim Abubakar, a member of the commission and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at UCL, said: "We do not start from the perspective of 'look, we want to scare you - we have X threats that humanity is facing.' We start from the premise that if you are today a decision-maker, whether at the global multilateral level or at the national level, these are the potential threats you may face, and this is the scope through which, if you act, you can really make a difference." #RăzboiNuclear #InteligențăArtificială #AmenințăriGlobale (translated)

The PSOE seeks to optimize its votes in the elections on November 29 through three strategies: taking advantage of Vox's growth to weaken the PP, exploring joint lists for the Senate, and mobilizing its voters by appealing to a comeback epic based on the history of its electoral recovery. #PSOE #Vox #elecciones2026 (translated)

Revaccination against measles is recommended depending on the year of birth and the number of vaccine doses administered, with older individuals and those who have had the disease facing more complications, while for younger populations it is crucial to monitor the situation when traveling, especially to areas with epidemic occurrences. #spalničky #očkování #infekčnínemoci (translated)

We do not start from the idea of saying: "Look, we want to scare you – here are the threats that hang over humanity." We start from the premise that if you can decide in the present – whether at a global multilateral level or at a national level – these are the potential threats you could face, and if you act, you can indeed make a difference," said Ibrahim Abubakar, a member of the commission and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at University College London. #amenințăriglobale #inteligențăartificială #războinuclear (translated)