The post’s author called for the closure of what they described as Serbia’s regime propaganda machine, naming TV Pink, Informer, RT Balkan and Alo. They said Serbia deserved free media rather than what they called Vučić’s propaganda machine, and claimed pro-government outlets had long helped sustain a political system based on propaganda, fear, manipulation and attacks on a linked target. https://t.co/vXMcsiRqfD #Srbija #SlobodaMediја #Protest #RS (translated)
The leader of the student list, Ilija Srdanović, called on citizens to remain calm and dignified after the incidents in front of the buildings of Informer and Pink in Belgrade. #Beograd #izbori #studenti (translated)
Citizens gathered in front of the Pink television in Belgrade, throwing eggs at the building and expressing dissatisfaction with the way the media reported on the protesters, after the protesters entered the premises of Informer earlier today. #prosvjedi #Beograd #PINK (translated)
Despite the fact that Think Pink's environmental scandal has resulted in prison sentences for those responsible and a large bill for damages, large amounts of waste remain in several locations in Central Sweden, including a huge mountain of garbage in Kagghamra, which Botkyrka municipality hopes the state will finance the handling of by 2028 at the latest. #miljöbrott #avfallshantering #Kagghamra (translated)
In response to weaker demand Air Canada announced it will cancel 5 routes beginning in /27. Includes flights to Seattle, Nashville, RaleighDurham, Boston& Charleston Canadian travel to US has plunged after repeated threats of annexation by Trump & his trade war #Pinks globalnews.ca/news/1211323...
Imagine tapping the screen for your chosen candidate and watching the machine switch your vote to Marsha Blackburn. Voters in Tennessee are sounding the alarm. Check your review screen carefully before you cast your ballot so your voice is actually heard. #TrumpsCrimesOnYourDime #Pinks ⭐️
On October 6, a child was abused in the Altenburg Pauritzer Park, and the police are urgently searching for the fleeing perpetrator as well as a pink children's underwear that may be related to the crime. #Kindesmissbrauch #Altenburg #Polizei (translated)
Ohio’s data center industry got $2.5 billion in tax breaks from 2017 to 2024. Jon Husted enthusiastically backed the expansion. Now he’s admitting the industry earned its backlash. Well, Jon, people have been paying attention. #RepublicansLoveDataCenters #Pinks ⭐️
Rodrigo Constantino labeled Roger Waters from Pink Floyd as anti-Semitic and wrote that the musician had declared support for Lula. Constantino stated that, after the declaration, the leftist still had 43% of the voting intentions, compared to the same 43%. #RogerWaters #Lula #Eleições2024 (translated)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 😑Michigan utility customers may pay $6.4bn for two new gas plants to meet datacenter demand, drawing outrage from residents. #Pinks
Mia Rockatansky wrote that it is apparently possible to do quite a bit with her, but attacks on her people angered her. Addressing Mieke Wolke, she warned against "waking sleeping dogs" and stated that her group would never be defeated. https://t.co/i3uP1buyst #SchlafendeHunde #Mia #Energie (translated)
An investigation by "BBC Verify" and "Newtral" has found that several alleged protest photos from France, including one of a man dressed as the Pink Panther, are forgeries created with the help of artificial intelligence. #FakeNews #Protest #KünstlicheIntelligenz (translated)
During the protests in France, many viral images are circulating, including fake depictions of characters like the Pink Panther, while a BBC review shows that some of these images are based on older footage. #FrankreichProteste #KIBilder #FakeNews (translated)
In the eighth edition of the Starmus Festival in Tenerife, prominent thinkers such as Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Hinton, and Christiana Figueres debated the loss of objectivity in truth and its impact on the fight against climate change, emphasizing that different values lead to different perceptions of reality. #FestivalStarmus #BúsquedaDeLaVerdad #NoticiasFalsas (translated)
The author said astronomers had found green, pink and purple stars, although such stars were thought to be impossible, and said a video explained how they reached that conclusion.
The Tyrolean Susanna Riedlsperger has been appointed the new head of the Young Pinks. (translated)
𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 — 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 A newly exposed US political influence network appears to have been designed around a different target from most election propaganda. Its primary audience was not necessarily the voter reading a website, but the automated systems that search the web on behalf of AI chatbots. Threat-intelligence company VisionHeight initially identified 37 anonymous websites presenting themselves as state or local news organisations, opinion publications and national issue sites. By 15 October, the company's co-founder and chief technology officer, Nitsan Daniel, told CyberScoop that the investigation had expanded the observed footprint to 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟰 𝗨𝗦 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟰𝟲𝟬 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀. The states identified were Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. The infrastructure shows unusually strong signs of coordination. All 37 domains in the original dataset were registered during a single evening; 36 were registered within approximately eight minutes. On 30 September alone, the network published roughly 𝟭𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 using common templates and four recurring layouts. VisionHeight assesses that the scale and production pattern strongly suggest extensive automation, although that does not by itself prove which generative-AI system, if any, produced the text. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹. Candidate profiles can run to about 5,000 words, accompanied by similarly long voter guides containing 50 to 63 questions phrased in the style of queries someone might put to an AI assistant. Across the network, formulations such as a candidate being “the stronger choice” were repeated hundreds of times. One profile contained the phrase 34 times. In several voter guides examined by VisionHeight, the favoured candidate was named more than 110 times while an opponent appeared only six or seven times. The websites were also configured to make themselves unusually accessible to AI. Their crawler instructions explicitly welcomed 17 automated systems associated with companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Meta, Amazon and Apple. Some pages were marked in machine-readable metadata as news articles, while apparently separate publications cited one another. The result is a manufactured ecosystem in which several apparently independent local sources can reinforce the same conclusion. That is the central technique. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴. The more immediate objective appears to be manipulation of the retrieval and search layer: place highly optimised material online, make it easy for automated crawlers to index, create the appearance of corroboration, and increase the chance that an AI assistant retrieves those pages when answering a political question. There is evidence that the network crossed that boundary. VisionHeight says it confirmed that 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 cited Tar Heel State Report as the first source in at least one response. Separately, one of the network's candidate pages reached third place in a Google search six days after publication, above Ballotpedia for the tested query. These findings demonstrate that the material can enter AI-relevant search and retrieval pipelines. They do 𝗻𝗼𝘁 demonstrate that the operation changed anyone's vote, nor establish how frequently major chatbots have used the network. The timing matters because AI has become part of the election-information environment. An AAPC Foundation survey of 1,568 likely US voters found that about one in five planned to use AI to investigate a race on their ballot, while 38 per cent reported having received election information through an AI-generated search summary. A separate NewsGuard audit found that leading chatbots frequently cited partisan websites disguised as local journalism without clearly identifying their political affiliations. The newly identified network appears to take that existing vulnerability one step further by constructing content specifically around the way machines search and summarise information. 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁? 𝗔𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿. VisionHeight has not attributed the operation to any individual, campaign, company, political party or foreign government. No confirmed name of an operator has been publicly established. Nitsan Daniel is the researcher who helped expose the network, not a person connected to its operation. Some components have explicitly partisan branding. VisionHeight's indicators include domains such as Affordability Democrats, Democratic Women House, Public Safety Democrats and Republican Incumbent Watch, while the live Affordability Democrats site promotes Democratic candidates across 11 competitive House races. That provides evidence about the political direction of some of the published material, but it does 𝗻𝗼𝘁 establish who commissioned, financed or operated the infrastructure, and it would be unjustified to attribute it to the Democratic Party or any particular campaign. The network also appears broader than congressional politics. The live Tar Heel State Report has carried material on county commission and judicial contests, illustrating why the method may be particularly effective in down-ballot races where established local reporting is thin. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲. Propaganda no longer has to persuade a human being directly. It can instead attempt to shape the information environment from which an apparently neutral machine constructs its answer. 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗦: Active / newly exposed and expanding as of 15–16 October 2026. 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘: High regarding coordinated infrastructure and AI-oriented design; moderate regarding the full current scale; attribution unknown. 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗦 VisionHeight — primary investigation, “Someone Is Manipulating Your AI to Swing Your Vote” https://www.visionheight.com/resources/someone-is-manipulating-your-ai-to-swing-your-vote CyberScoop — Derek B. Johnson, 15 October 2026 https://cyberscoop.com/ai-chatbots-election-influence-hyperlocal-networks/ Tar Heel State Report — live network site used for OSINT verification https://tarheelstatereport.com/ Affordability Democrats — live network site https://affordabilitydemocrats.com/ AAPC Foundation — 2026 AI Voter Study https://theaapc.org/release-foundation-research/ NPR — reporting on voters using AI chatbots for the 2026 midterms https://www.wusf.org/2026-10-05/people-are-asking-chatgpt-to-help-them-decide-how-to-vote-in-the-midterms NewsGuard — “Pink Slime Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms” https://www.newsguardtech.com/press/pink-slime-is-infecting-ai-chatbots-ahead-of-the-midterms/ 𝗞𝗘𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗦 #Disinformed #Disinformation #Propaganda #InfluenceOperations #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIChatbots #ElectionSecurity #USMidterms #USElections #InformationWarfare #CognitiveWarfare #OSINT #ThreatIntelligence #CyberSecurity #DataPoisoning #RetrievalManipulation #SearchManipulation #GenerativeAI #LLM #AIManipulation #PoliticalInfluence #FakeNews #LocalNews #PinkSlime #Perplexity #ElectionIntegrity #InformationIntegrity #DigitalPropaganda #AIsecurity
In the Netherlands, the Pentecostal church, with nearly half a million followers, is growing rapidly, leading to an increase in the number of faith healers who claim that through faith everyone can be healed, but this practice evokes both euphoric stories as well as disappointments and doubts among the sick. #gebedsgenezing #pinksterkerk #geloof (translated)
