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Pedro Menin wrote that, according to data from the manager Legacy, which manages R$ 14 billion, the dispute could end in 53% to 47% or, in the tightest scenario, in 51% to 49%. He stated that, in the manager's assessment, a significant change in voter behavior would be necessary to alter the winner. Menin also called on his supporters to remain strong and focused and described the dispute as a “holy war” of the people of God. https://t.co/uXnfSQWb4v #Eleições2024 #Política #Brasil (translated)

The author marked 80 years of Annual Meetings, saying members had gathered over eight decades to address global economic challenges. They wrote that visiting the IMF-World Bank exhibit had reminded them of the lasting value of international cooperation and the responsibility to carry that legacy forward.

The author asked why the Western post-Cold War “illusion”, which they said had dominated after 1989 and been shaped by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher’s legacy, had eventually failed. They recommended the text linked in the post as worth reading. #Geopolitics #History #ColdWar #US #GB

This is incredibly sad. I once interviewed RJ Mitte on the Southbank and he was very friendly and joyful on a sunny day by the river. He leaves a legacy of disability representation on the screen; something that is far from easy to achieve and still too rare. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Kriska Carvalho wrote that Willer Tomaz was a longtime friend of Flávio Bolsonaro and that the two even shared a bill. According to her, Flávio acknowledged the relationship, which, in the author's assessment, went beyond friendship. Carvalho stated that Willer competed with a company linked to the player Richarlison for a mansion in Angra dos Reis, for which the athlete said he paid around R$ 10 million. Flávio had previously visited the property and returned in 2021 with Willer, who allegedly showed interest in the property despite knowing about the negotiation. The author also mentioned that companies linked to Willer were associated with other properties frequented by Flávio in the city. The publication also reported that, in January 2025, Flávio, his wife, and his daughters traveled from the United States to Brasília on a Legacy 650 jet, accompanied by Willer. According to Carvalho, the aircraft went through a business structure linked to Prime You, of which Daniel Vorcaro, former controller of Banco Master, was a partner. Carvalho also claimed that, during the 2026 campaign, Flávio used an apartment in São Paulo that belonged to a company of Willer. The property is said to have been purchased for R$ 5.5 million in 2025 by Fabiano Zettel, Vorcaro's brother-in-law and identified by the federal police as the former banker’s financial operator, and sold in February 2026 to Willer’s company for R$ 3.5 million. The author added that Willer was the subject of a search and seizure in August 2026 as part of the investigation into fraud at the INSS. According to her, the federal police were investigating whether companies linked to the lawyer served as a "financial, property, and logistical hub" related to Senator Weverton Rocha. Finally, Carvalho stated that Willer was the lawyer for Alexandre Caetano dos Reis, whom she described as being linked both professionally and commercially to Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as Careca do INSS. Alexandre is the brother of Letícia Caetano dos Reis, who managed Flávio Bolsonaro's law firm and, according to the publication, claimed to have joined the firm on Willer's recommendation. #FlavioEscandaloINSS #INSS #Corrupção #PolíticaBrasileira (translated)

An expedition from the Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue University is heading to the remote island of Nikumaroro in the Pacific with the hope of unveiling the mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart's disappearance, after spotting an object that could be the fuselage of her lost plane. #AmeliaEarhart #Nikumaroro #Expedición (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

Yesid Lancheros wrote that SEMANA reported that Verónica Alcocer made 149 trips, almost all on state planes, and transported nearly 2,100 passengers. Among them were the Catalans, Alcocer's cousin, Mario Fernández Alcocer; Carolina Plata, who Eva Ferrer pointed out as an alleged frontman; and the Italian Enrico Romagnoli, investigated for alleged corruption in Ecopetrol. Lancheros indicated that a flight to Venezuela on January 31, 2023, on a state aircraft Legacy FAC 1218, was the one Ferrer mentioned in statements to SEMANA. According to Ferrer, drugs would have been transported on that flight, and 2.5 million dollars had been brought from Venezuela. He also stated that the Catalan businessman Manel Grau told him that part of that money was intended to finance Fernández Alcocer's campaign for the governorship of Sucre in the 2023 regional and local elections. Ferrer added that, according to what he had been told, there would be photographs of Alcocer getting off the plane with gray suitcases and a movement of capital between both countries would have occurred. #Corrupción #Colombia #Ecopetrol (translated)

The page "Page that alerts you when another TF movie comes out :)" published the first official look at the Valentine's Day pack of Transformers and said it would include Optimus Earthrise and Elita Legacy. It also noted that "love won." https://t.co/qoeps7rg5P #Transformers #SanValentín #CulturaPop (translated)

The author described the strikes on Kyiv and 12 regions as Vladimir Putin’s birthday “gift” to Ukraine, saying they involved 70 missiles and 130 drones and killed at least 15 people. They wrote that after more than 25 years in power, Putin had brought war, death and destruction to neighbouring countries, while Russia itself faced isolation, repression and a stolen future. https://t.co/VuBLOhxqP1 #Ukraine #Putin #War #UA #RU

The author wrote that Russia’s economy was constrained by Putin’s war and cited a Bank of Finland forecast of annual growth of only 0.5% in 2027–2028. They said war spending was driving inflation and deficits while leaving destruction and death, and argued that the Kremlin was sacrificing Russia’s long-term prosperity to continue the war. #Россия #экономика #война #RU #FI

HAMBURG | Sunday question Bürgerschaft election trend Research/Radio Hamburg SPD: 29% (-4.5) GREEN: 18% (-0.5) LEFT: 15% (+3.8) AfD: 14% (+6.5) CDU: 12% (-7.8) FDP: 3% (+0.7) BSW: 3% (+1.2) Volt: 2% (-1.2) Other: 4% (+1.8) Changes from the election results of 2025 Course: https://t.co/6k5XwBjSWI #ltwhh #hhwahl https://t.co/F6NbVkcBsj #BayernMunich #Müller #Champions (translated)

A true European. A politician of character and humanity, always close to people. A distinguished journalist. Naming one of the European Parliament buildings after David Sassoli today honours his memory and keeps alive the values he stood for — a legacy we all cherish. https://t.co/4kbx4TyOD6 #DavidSassoli #EuropeanParliament #Legacy #EU

Ik zie vrij heftige uitspraken voorbij komen in de legacy Media en hier op X over de Box 3 plannen. Bij Nieuws van de Dag duidt Erik de Zwart zojuist: “de minister wil 2,5 miljoen mensen éxtra voor hun bek slaan, ze worden namelijk extra belast door deze plannen van de overheid.” “In een sok stoppen is misschien zelfs het meest verstandige” “Het zal de run op Spaanse huizen vergroten, mensen zullen denken: Ik pak mijn biezen want ik wordt aan alle kanten beroofd.” Ben jij het eens met Erik? #Box3 #belasting #opinie