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Interviewing a govt minister Hazarika shows a graph comparing young people claiming PIP to the size of our armed forces & declares it "tells a story about modern Britain" I can't even make a sarcastic comment about our fearless fourth estate, because Hazarika is a Labour politician

Daniele Mari reported that Carlos Augusto said he had entered the field with the aim of helping his teammates and putting Inter's goals ahead of his personal ones. The player had added that the team's victory mattered more than his individual achievements and that, after a difficult summer, he felt calmer this season and had worked a lot. Augusto had also mentioned that he had kept an eye on the World Cup, but considered Inter's victory a priority, while the national team would be a consequence to evaluate later. #Inter #calcio #MVP (translated)

Italy now has 51 national days, including the proposal by Brothers of Italy for a Panettone Day in the height of summer, raising concerns from President Sergio Mattarella regarding the proliferation of these observances and the need for more homogeneous criteria for their establishment. #GiornateNazionali #CulturaItaliano #PoliticaItaliana (translated)

Daniele Mari reported that, according to Il Messaggero, during the summer there were rumors about the interest of funds and family offices, but the contacts with Italian and foreign parties had not led to concrete negotiations. He wrote that the entry of the Al Thani family could change the scenario. According to sources in Qatar, he added, a member of the family was a huge Inter fan and, whenever possible, flew to Milan to watch the matches from a box at San Siro. #Inter #Calcio #Mercato (translated)

The author accused a president of listing at least 12 lies in support of a dictator the author described as responsible for mass murder, and disparaged the president as a real-estate salesman. The author also wrote that Europe had provided Ukraine with $260 billion in support, compared with $127 billion from the United States. #Ukraine #SupportUkraine #RealEstate #EU #UA #US

After 150 years of history, New York is preparing to say goodbye to the carriages of Central Park, with a vote scheduled for October 22 for the final ban, driven by concerns for the welfare of the animals and by a tragic incident that occurred last summer. #Carrozzelle #CentralPark #DirittiDegliAnimali (translated)

𝗧𝗵𝗲 $𝟰𝟯 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗭𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 A Norwegian royal residence, a $43 million price tag, an offshore company historically linked to Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a video apparently produced by the American entertainment outlet E! News. The story contained enough authentic details to look plausible. It was also fabricated. At the end of September 2026, social-media accounts began circulating a video claiming that Film Heritage Inc., a Belize-registered company with historical links to Zelenskyy and his family, had purchased the Norwegian royal estate of Skaugum for approximately $43 million. The property was described as covering 240 acres, while the supposed transaction was linked to Zelenskyy’s visit to Norway for the funeral of King Harald V. Independent investigations found no evidence that such a sale had ever taken place. 𝗔 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 The fabrication was carefully constructed around genuine information. King Harald V had died in August 2026, and Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska travelled to Oslo for his funeral on 9 September. Skaugum is also a genuine royal estate in Asker with a long history as a residence of Norway’s heir to the throne. The false report turned those facts into a fictional property transaction. It claimed that Zelenskyy had previously attempted to buy the estate, that the Norwegian royal family had rejected an earlier approach and that the purchase had finally been completed after the property supposedly became a financial burden. No documentary evidence supporting any of these claims has emerged. Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs later confirmed to fact-checkers that the allegation was false. Searches of established Norwegian and international media also produced no credible reporting about the supposed transaction. 𝗔 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 The most important part of the operation was not the property claim itself. It was the source apparently verifying it. The video was designed to resemble an E! News report, borrowing the visual language of the established American entertainment brand. But investigators found no such story on E! News’s genuine website, social-media channels or archived pages. Instead, the accompanying article appeared on eonline.news, a domain closely resembling E! News’s legitimate eonline.com address. Registration records showed that the imitation domain had been created on 27 September 2026 — only two days before the story was published. The accompanying video also showed signs of synthetic production. Fact-checkers examining the material identified indications that AI tools had been used in the narration and audiovisual elements. The operation therefore did not simply invent a news story. It created an apparently credible media environment around it. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 The supposed buyer was also carefully selected. Film Heritage Inc. was not invented for the fabrication. The Pandora Papers previously documented a genuine historical connection between the Belize-registered company and Zelenskyy’s former business network. Leaked documents showed that Zelenskyy and his wife had held an interest in another offshore company through Film Heritage before changes were made to the ownership structure around his 2019 presidential campaign. That authentic history gave the new fabrication an additional layer of plausibility. The same company name has previously appeared in false narratives alleging extravagant purchases by Zelenskyy, including supposed luxury-property and casino acquisitions. Those stories were also unsupported by evidence. This illustrates a recurring feature of effective disinformation: not every component has to be false. A genuine company can be combined with a genuine trip, a genuine property and a genuine media brand to manufacture an event that never occurred. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗸𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation assessed the operation as consistent with the Russian Matryoshka disinformation playbook. The technique strongly resembles previously documented Matryoshka activity: impersonating established Western media organisations, creating fabricated video reports and distributing them through coordinated or pro-Russian social-media networks. French authorities have documented Matryoshka since 2023 as a pro-Russian influence operation targeting media organisations, public figures and fact-checkers. Investigations have shown repeated use of counterfeit reports imitating major European and North American news brands. The Norwegian-estate story fits that pattern closely. The attribution nevertheless requires precision. Independent evidence establishes that the E! News report was fake, that a newly created imitation website was involved and that the story circulated through pro-Russian information channels. Publicly available forensic evidence does not yet identify a specific individual or technical operator who created this particular asset. It is therefore more accurate to describe the Matryoshka connection as a well-supported analytical attribution rather than a publicly proven chain of command. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 The most important element of the operation is not really the $43 million figure. It is the construction of credibility around it. A genuine royal funeral supplied the timing. A genuine Norwegian estate supplied the location. A genuine offshore company supplied a documented connection to Zelenskyy. A counterfeit E! News website supplied apparent journalistic confirmation. Synthetic audiovisual material supplied what looked like additional evidence. Each element reinforced the others. This reflects a broader change in contemporary disinformation. The most sophisticated operations no longer rely exclusively on fabricating photographs, videos or statements. Increasingly, they fabricate the source that supposedly verified them. The deepfake is sometimes the entire newsroom! 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 Lead Stories — investigation into the fake E! News report https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2026/10/fact-check-enews-did-not-publish-report-about-zelenskyy-buying-43-million-dollar-mansion-from-norways-royal-family.html Center for Countering Disinformation of Ukraine — Norwegian royal estate fabrication https://cpd.gov.ua/en/international-threats-en/europe/fake-about-zelenskyys-purchase-of-a-norwegian-royal-family-estate/ Ellinika Hoaxes — investigation and Norwegian government response https://www.ellinikahoaxes.gr/2026/10/09/agorase-o-zelenski-ektasi-240-stremmaton-apo-ti-vasiliki-oikogeneia-tis-norvigias-gia-43-ekatommyria-dolaria/ The Royal House of Norway — funeral of King Harald V https://www.royalcourt.no/news/the-funeral-of-king-harald-v The Royal House of Norway — Skaugum and the Royal Estates https://www.royalcourt.no/the-royal-court/the-departments-the-royal-court/the-royal-estates-and-parks President of Ukraine — Zelenskyy and First Lady attend King Harald V’s funeral https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/prezident-ukrayini-ta-persha-ledi-vzyali-uchast-u-ceremoniyi-106293 OCCRP — Pandora Papers investigation into Zelenskyy’s offshore network https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle AFP Fact Check — previous false luxury-purchase narrative involving Film Heritage https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36PG6EC VIGINUM / SGDSN — Matryoshka technical report https://www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/files/files/20240611_NP_SGDSN_VIGINUM_Matriochka_EN_VF.pdf CheckFirst — Operation Overload / Matryoshka investigation https://checkfirst.network/operation-overload-an-ai-fuelled-escalation-of-the-kremlin-linked-propaganda-effort/ Keywords #DISINFORMED #Episode19 #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Norway #Russia #RussianDisinformation #RussianInfluence #Matryoshka #OperationOverload #Disinformation #InfluenceOperations #InformationWarfare #FIMI #MediaImpersonation #FakeMedia #ClonedWebsite #FakeNewsroom #ENews #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIGeneratedContent #VoiceCloning #SyntheticMedia #Deepfake #SourceLaundering #NarrativeLaundering #FilmHeritage #PandoraPapers #Skaugum #NorwegianRoyalFamily #Propaganda #DigitalInfluence #FactChecking #VIGINUM #OSINT #MediaManipulation #WRLD

Nicolò Schira wrote that Club Brugge defeated Inter at San Siro with a hat-trick from Nicolò Tresoldi. He reported that in the summer of 2025, during the Under 21 European Championship, the player had been offered to several Serie A clubs for 7 million, but they did not believe in him. According to Schira, Tresoldi is now worth 50 million and is attracting interest from big English clubs; the journalist described the situation as a regret. https://t.co/6DVEnwldag #Calcio #SerieA #EuropeoU21 (translated)

The negoBox on the multiannual budget presented by the Irish presidency is a disgrace. The massive cuts to the budget will weaken the EU at the worst possible moment. The over 35,000 deaths recorded this summer demonstrate that we need more funding to cope with natural disasters, not a reduction in civil protection. Together with the leaders of S&D, Renew, and PPE, we will not approve this QFP. This is written on X by the co-chair of the EU Greens, Terry Reintke. #BilancioUE #Riforme #Flessibilità (translated)

Paolo wrote that Maria would decide, after watching the Olympics on TV during a summer afternoon, to include sports in her program, while Piersilvio would remain silent. He called Maria the most important woman in Italy. #amici26 https://t.co/faALt5uOVK #Olimpiadi #Sport #Amici26 (translated)

The author wrote that Victor Spaggiari had been a familiar sight to Galway residents, sitting on the same bench each day, and that he left an estate worth €1.29 million when he died. The author said they had traced Spaggiari’s family in Italy to find out why. https://t.co/847qQVepDf #Galway #Homelessness #HumanStories #IE #IT

The Typical Day recounted Jon Elmore's journey to the NBA, which began in 2018 when he declared himself eligible for the draft. After not being chosen in 2019, the player continued to pursue that goal between Trieste, Capo d'Orlando, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, and the G League, before also spending time in Turkey and the Canadian league. According to the report, this summer Elmore had played in the Summer League with the Lakers, becoming the oldest player to take the court in the competition. Twenty days ago, in a six-team G League trade that involved players, buses, and three washing machines, his rights ended up with the Spurs, who then signed him. Elmore made his debut in an NBA pre-season game against Atlanta, finishing with 0 points and 0/2 shooting. The Typical Day described his story as one of the most incredible of 2026 and noted that he was 30 years old, ironically describing his mature appearance and physical play under the basket. The profile concluded by wishing him the opportunity to play at least one season before retiring. #NBA #Basketball #Sport (translated)

The Damen shipyard in Mangalia has been sold for 138,034,320.47 euros, excluding VAT, with the winner of the auction being Rheinmetall Real Estate Romania SRL, according to the announcement made by CITR, the judicial liquidator. #TranzacțieRecord #Mangalia #ȘantierNaval (translated)

It is also the position of Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, a potential candidate for the 2028 presidential election, who has spoken out against Proposition 40 even though he opened up to the idea of a federal minimum tax on large fortunes before the summer. #Tassazione #California #ElezioniMidterm (translated)