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The author wrote, according to new data from poll graphics, that the SPD has lost five more direct mandates to the AfD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. This brings the AfD to 27 and the SPD to nine mandates. Manuela Schwesig has gone too far with her complete exclusion of the AfD, he stated. #SPD #AfD #MecklenburgVorpommern #DE (translated)

Berlinoir (Reissue) by Reinhard Kleist, Tobias O. Meißner, illustrated by Reinhard Kleist Berlin is no longer the city we know. Vampires dominate the capital and have created a realm that entirely caters to their dark needs. But in the shadows, resistance is forming: a small group of people dares to rise up against their overwhelming oppressors. BERLINOIR takes you into a dark Berlin full of intrigues, power plays, and bloody confrontations. Reinhard Kleist and Tobias O. Meissner create a gripping scenario that exposes the depths of the metropolis. The graphic novel that inspired the Hulu Original series on Disney+ "City of Blood" offers a ruthless glimpse into the darkest side of the capital. Upon the series' launch, the revised reissue will be released with previously unpublished additional material. (translated)

Marc Vanguard indicated that the Ministry of the Interior had published new data on recorded domestic violence. He stated that foreigners were significantly overrepresented among the individuals implicated and presented a thread of five graphs on the subject. https://t.co/M7umebLQyS #ViolencesConjugales #Données #Intérieur (translated)

The Iran war and related economic problems sure didn’t help the GOP. But it’s convenient for Vance to blame the midterm loss on the war, as if the rest is popular. Look at these graphs. Can’t spot the war in Trump’s approval decline. Biden’s drop from the Afghanistan withdrawal was more apparent.

The author wrote that poverty in France had reached its highest historical level in thirty years. He indicated that its increase, presented in the form of graphs, particularly affected single-parent families and the youngest, and resulted in material deprivation. https://t.co/BYUNxqBNxd https://t.co/eKcjRbzWph #pauvreté #France #société #FR (translated)

The author wrote that, according to new data from poll graphics, the AfD could currently win 12 direct mandates in Baden-Württemberg. In the election in March, it only received one direct mandate there. He asked if many Germans had woken up again in the past six months. #AfD #Wahlen #Politik #DE (translated)

The budget has left the wealthy relatively unscathed. Neoliberals are targeting social security cuts. Will increase poverty & misery. This graph shows total UK welfare spending as a percentage of GDP, 2013/14 to 2030/31 (spending and forecast) lordslibrary.parliament.uk/welfare-refo...

Marc Vanguard indicated that the Ministry of Justice had quietly published its report on its "key figures." He stated that he had created four charts from this document and claimed that 45% of the people convicted of offenses were already known to the justice system. https://t.co/XF7JgpGICr #Justice #Rapport #Statistiques (translated)

Clément Molin estimated that the war in Ukraine had caused nearly one million deaths among Ukrainian and Russian military personnel. He emphasized that the available counts were partial and that both sides were attempting to hide their losses. According to the figures he presented as verified, the Ukrainian toll amounted to 106,000 dead, 105,000 missing — the majority of whom were likely dead — and 12,000 prisoners of war, totaling approximately 224,000 losses. For Russia, he reported 282,000 dead and at least 70,000 additional deaths by the end of 2025, amounting to about 352,000 losses, while noting that losses for 2026 were almost absent from the counts. Molin cited the work of M0nstas, based on data from Mediazona and Ualosses, indicating that official Ukrainian figures were comparable to Russian losses when considering the changing ratio of killed to wounded. He concluded that Russian losses might actually be between 500,000 and 600,000 dead. For Ukraine, he estimated the toll to be between 300,000 and 400,000 dead, considering this estimate more difficult to reach. He reported that Ualosses faced challenges in obtaining precise data for major cities, Transcarpathia, and the occupied south and east. He added to the death toll the volunteers and foreign mercenaries, Ukrainians from occupied territories conscripted into the Russian army and killed in combat, as well as 2,000 North Koreans killed in Kursk. He also reminded that, in his view, the number of wounded was at least twice that of the dead, and that tens of thousands of people had been amputated on both sides. In this regard, he cited the official Ukrainian figure of 1.5 million military losses. Molin estimated that the total death toll therefore exceeded one million and called for the consideration of psychological trauma, desertions, and demobilized soldiers. He described the war as a "bloodbath" and wrote that each year seemed more deadly than the last. #Ukraine #Guerre #Conflit (translated)

The French Mileistes have recommended sharing a graph in view of the 2027 election. They stated that France was by far the most heavily taxed country in the OECD and that the tax burden on the French was worsening year by year, while tax revenues had not increased as a share of GDP in 30 years. They presented this situation as a "Laffer effect": according to them, beyond a certain level, increasing taxes reduced revenues. They also argued that Denmark taxed much less than France, while receiving as much revenue as a share of GDP and more per capita. They criticized successive French governments for continuing to raise taxes, describing the economy as already very weakened. #Fiscalité #Élection2027 #France (translated)

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The author wrote that, according to new data from poll graphics, the AfD will win 23 direct mandates in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in the spring. He recalled that in the past there had not been a single direct mandate for the AfD in most West German federal states. #AfD #NRW #Landtagswahl #DE (translated)

𝗣𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻–𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 — 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 A burst of false reports surrounding India's protests over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls provides a clear example of how genuine political unrest can become a target for cross-border information manipulation. What remains considerably less certain is the scale and command structure of the campaign. Indian intelligence officials have alleged that more than 5,000 social-media accounts were created in Pakistan within roughly two weeks to exploit protests against the electoral-roll revision and the Election Commission. According to reporting based on Intelligence Bureau sources, the accounts were intended to circulate claims of police violence, casualties and government repression, while encouraging those narratives to travel beyond Delhi into other parts of India. Several of the individual fabrications are independently verifiable. One account using the identity “Anushi Tiwari Indian” and the handle @indiantiwari01 circulated old footage with claims that Delhi Police had opened fire on demonstrators. Different posts attributed multiple deaths to the supposed firing and claimed that opposition leader Rahul Gandhi had been shot or injured. Fact-checkers established that footage used to support such claims came from earlier events, including the 2024 farmers' protests, rather than the demonstrations then taking place in Delhi. Delhi Police publicly identified the account and said it had a history of distributing doctored material, old footage and fabricated narratives. Police subsequently registered four cases concerning alleged misinformation around the protests, while officials said hundreds of posts had been removed. India Today later reported that the Delhi Police Cyber Cell had traced the account's IP address to Pakistan and that the account was subsequently withheld in India. Earlier investigations had also documented the same persona circulating misleading material about Indian political and security events. That evidence establishes a meaningful Pakistan-linked component to the disinformation environment. It does not, however, independently establish a 5,000-account ISI network. The larger allegation comes primarily from Indian intelligence reporting. The Statesman, citing an IANS report and an Intelligence Bureau official, said accounts were being operated from several locations including Bhimber, Rawalakot, Sialkot and Peshawar rather than primarily from Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Officials alleged that operators were supplied with narratives to circulate and instructed to tag users outside India to increase their reach. The same reporting connected the activity to “Operation Ground Wire”, described by Indian sources as an effort to recruit Indian nationals to generate material that could then appear to originate domestically. The concept predates the October protests. A September investigation by CNN-News18 alleged that a platform called Bharat Bytes News had been used to recruit young Indian contributors for politically sensitive assignments, with material subsequently handled from Pakistan. There is an important evidential gap. No public list of the alleged 5,000 accounts has been released. There is no published network graph, platform transparency report, forensic infrastructure analysis or dataset allowing independent researchers to reproduce the Intelligence Bureau's assessment. Nor has public evidence demonstrated that all the accounts described in media reports belong to a single centrally controlled network rather than several clusters, individual propagandists and opportunistic accounts exploiting the same political crisis. The attribution to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is therefore an intelligence claim rather than an independently demonstrated technical attribution. Reporting by Indian outlets repeatedly cites intelligence and police sources, but the underlying evidence has not been released publicly. At the time of this review, no equivalent technical report from Meta, X, Google or another major platform had been identified that confirmed the existence of a 5,000-account ISI-controlled operation. This distinction matters particularly in the India–Pakistan information environment. Both states routinely accuse the other of covert influence and disinformation. Pakistan itself has alleged Indian-backed social-media operations targeting Pakistani institutions, and Islamabad has previously rejected Indian security allegations as politically motivated. That does not invalidate evidence surrounding particular Pakistan-based accounts, but it raises the evidential threshold required for attributing thousands of accounts to a state intelligence service. There is another reason for caution. The information environment around the Indian protests contains misinformation from more than one political direction. Independent fact-checkers have identified AI-generated protest scenes, old videos recaptioned as current events and fabricated images supporting competing narratives. In an earlier case involving the Cockroach Janta Party protests, BOOM and Alt News found that Delhi Police themselves had incorrectly dismissed authentic footage as fake. Government attribution should therefore be treated as evidence to investigate, not as a substitute for forensic verification. No confirmed individual mastermind can presently be named for the October 5,000-account operation. “Anushi Tiwari Indian” is a documented online persona, not a verified real-world identity. Earlier reporting on the broader Ground Wire allegation named individuals said to be Pakistani handlers, including a person identified as Abdullah Shad and a Pakistani military officer described as Lieutenant Colonel Zia. Those identities have not been independently established through publicly available judicial records, financial evidence or a technical attribution report, and there is insufficient evidence to identify either man as responsible for the current 5,000-account campaign. The most defensible conclusion is narrower but still significant. A cluster of false narratives exploiting India's election-related protests existed; several prominent examples have been independently debunked; and at least one central amplifier has been reported by police investigators as Pakistan-based. The much larger claim — that more than 5,000 newly created accounts form a coordinated ISI operation — remains plausible but unproven on the public evidence currently available. For an information operation, that gap between what can be demonstrated and what intelligence authorities say they know is itself part of the story. 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗦 1. The Statesman — “Pakistan creates 5,000 fake social media accounts amid anti-SIR protests: IB official”, 14 October 2026. This is the principal published source for the 5,000-account figure, alleged geographic distribution and Operation Ground Wire connection. The Statesman https://www.thestatesman.com/india/pakistan-creates-5000-fake-social-media-accounts-amid-anti-sir-protests-ib-official-1503650989.html 2. India Today — “ISI-linked accounts post fake Rahul injury video, deaths amid Delhi protests”, 13 October 2026. Documents the fake Rahul Gandhi injury story, false casualty reports and attribution supplied by security sources. India Today https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/anti-cec-protests-isi-linked-pakistan-accounts-spread-false-rahul-gandhi-injury-claim-fake-deaths-amid-delhi-protests-3016235-2026-10-13 3. India Today / PTI — Delhi Police investigation, four FIRs and approximately 500 posts removed, 13 October 2026. India Today https://www.indiatoday.in/cities/delhi/story/delhi-police-files-four-firs-removes-500-posts-over-protest-misinformation-3016760-2026-10-13 4. The New Indian Express — Delhi Police warning concerning @indiantiwari01, 12 October 2026. Includes the police's public identification of the account and its description of previous fabricated narratives. The New Indian Express https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2026/Oct/12/delhi-police-warns-of-action-over-fake-claim-of-firing-at-rahul-gandhi-rally-300-posts-taken-down 5. India Today — “Pakistani Fake News Account Banned on X Over Fabricated Videos on Delhi Protests and Rahul Gandhi”, 15 October 2026. Reports the Cyber Cell finding that the account's IP address traced to Pakistan. India Today https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/pakistani-fake-news-account-banned-on-x-over-fabricated-videos-on-delhi-protests-and-rahul-gandhi-ytvd-3017879-2026-10-15 6. The Quint / WebQoof — independent verification of old footage falsely presented as Delhi Police firing on protesters. The investigated post from @indiantiwari01 had accumulated more than 35,000 views when checked. TheQuint https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/old-video-farmers-protest-falsely-linked-to-cjp-delhi-police-firing-fact-check 7. BOOM — “Old Farmers Protest Video Falsely Shared As Fatalities From October 10 Protest”, 10 October 2026. Independent visual verification of another falsely contextualised protest video. BOOM https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/old-farmers-protest-video-falsely-shared-as-fatalities-from-october-10-protest-32352 8. Newschecker — independent fact-check of the false Delhi Police firing and casualty story, 13 October 2026. Newschecker https://www.newschecker.in/fact-check/old-video-shared-as-delhi-police-firing-at-rahul-gandhi-led-march-against-cec 9. DFRAC — earlier investigation of the “Anushi Tiwari Indian” persona during the September BRICS information environment. This establishes that the account's misleading activity preceded the October protests. DFRAC_ORG https://dfrac.org/en/2026/09/16/brics-summit-disinformation-fake-and-misleading-claims-flood-social-media/ 10. ETGovernment — Maj Gen Rajan Kochhar (Retd), analysis of the earlier Ground Wire allegations, September 2026. Importantly, the article itself stresses that claims concerning named operators, payment mechanisms and Bharat Bytes require independent verification. ETGovernment.com https://government.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/blog/the-evolution-of-proxy-warfare-how-narrative-manipulation-is-transforming-india-pakistan-conflict/134347274 11. BOOM — AI-generated imagery falsely connected to the election-related protests, 12 October 2026. Demonstrates that the broader information disorder was not confined to the specifically Pakistan-attributed examples. BOOM https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/ai-visuals-falsely-shared-as-real-fuel-misinformation-amid-cec-protests-32353 12. Alt News — investigation showing that Delhi Police had incorrectly labelled genuine July protest footage as fake. Relevant to the need for independent verification of official fact-checking claims. Alt News https://www.altnews.in/hindi/baton-with-nails-videos-indeed-from-july-20-protests-delhi-police-pibs-fact-check-incorrect/ 𝗞𝗘𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗦 #Disinformed #Disinformation #Propaganda #InfluenceOperations #India #Pakistan #ISI #ElectionSecurity #ElectionIntegrity #SIR #SpecialIntensiveRevision #DelhiProtests #RahulGandhi #GyaneshKumar #SocialMedia #FakeAccounts #FakeNews #InformationWarfare #CognitiveWarfare #HybridWarfare #OSINT #DigitalPropaganda #ForeignInfluence #InformationOperations #FactChecking #CyberSecurity #OperationGroundWire #PakistanIndia #PoliticalDisinformation #InformationIntegrity

"We will get rid of Lula for good," assured the influencer Paulo Figueiredo on the social network X, sharing a Polymarket graph showing that, according to bettors, the son of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro had a 63% chance of winning. #Brésil #Élections2026 #FlavioBolsonaro (translated)