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The Republicans are trying to regain control of the New Hampshire Senate seat with the support of the Sununu political dynasty, where John E. Sununu, the former youngest senator, is facing off against Democrat Chris Pappas while trying to appeal to both moderate voters and Trump supporters. #vabariiklased #NewHampshire #senat (translated)

Daphna Kuhr wrote that she was back after a suspension of a week. She referred to a phone call between a young Gazan citizen, whom she described as colonized, and their parents. According to Kuhr, the conversation would be exactly three years old in a few hours. She lamented that the film NAZAAT could not include the conversation in the editing and suggested that it might have been too real. #Gaza #Film #Gesprekken (translated)

The sender wrote that a family had discovered a stranger in their daughter's bed at bedtime. According to the post, the man, who was described as a convicted sex offender, had entered through the window and was holding the six-year-old girl. The father, Dennis, said he felt that the world was sick. The sender agreed and ended the post with the word "Fortunately." #brott #säkerhet #familj #SE (translated)

Daniel Schatz wrote that the criticism of wearing folk costumes from other countries at the opening of the Parliament, according to him, was about respect for the Swedish state ceremony, not about denying any culture. He described the opening of Parliament as a shared and inclusive ceremony where formal attire or folk costume was appropriate. Schatz referred to Bakircioglu himself saying that he wore a Kurdish folk costume dedicated to his father and as a symbol for families with similar experiences. According to Schatz, the choice of clothing was therefore a conscious message, but he believed that the ceremony should be about Sweden, democracy, and Parliament rather than personal identity political statements. He also wrote that the significance of the clothing choice could not be denied and that not all criticism should be dismissed as racism. #SvenskKultur #Riksdag #Respekt (translated)

Flávio Bolsonaro is trying to win back his father's voters in the dangerous suburbs of Rio de Janeiro by participating in a motorcycle caravan and promoting his right-wing nationalist agenda ahead of the Brazilian presidential election. #FlávioBolsonaro #Brasilien #Högernationalism (translated)

UD OCH SVENSK AMBASSAD HJÄLPTE ILYAS HASSAN KRINGGÅ REGLERNA FÖR EKONOMISK ERSÄTTNING Vänsterpartiets Mohamed Ali som slipper betala av skulder är inte ensam om att ha getts ekonomisk gräddfil av Landet Lagom. 2014 uppgav röstfuskutpekade partikollegan ILYAS HASSAN att hans pappa som bodde i Somalia gått bort i hjärtinfarkt i Mogadishu, något som Hassan ville ha ekonomisk ersättning av Sverige för. Hassan skrev bl.a. brev till dåvarande utrikesminister Carl Bildt. Sveriges policy var att inte godta dokument från Somalia som bevis, då landet bl.a. saknade förvaltning, regering och centrala register. Ilyas Hassan säger dock i SR 2015 att "Vi hade kontakter hos Utrikesdepartementet och svenska ambassaden i Nairobi". Ambassadören i fråga ska ha varit @JBorgstam. Enligt Hassan författade ambassadören ett speciellt brev, vilket ledde till att undantag kunde göras av Skatteverket som då kunde betala Ilyas Hassans klan. https://t.co/GDceLy9oxV #Sverige #EkonomiskErsättning #Vänsterpartiet

Alex Schulman kan inte för sitt liv förstå att en pappa blir förbannad när coola tv-gänget skojar om mord på hans 14-åriga son i ett TV-program. Vem är förvånad över mästermobbarens försvar? ”Det var bara ett skämt ju!” Patetiskt. https://t.co/5rWuq9X8cQ #mobbningskultur #barnsäkert #TVdebatten

Nick Pappas, diretor de Campos da NFL, revelou que o gramado do Maracanã está PRONTO para Baltimore Ravens x Dallas Cowboys. Ele disse que não há motivos de preocupação com o estado do gramado e que a liga está em contato com os clubes a alguns meses. Pappas também revelou que fizeram melhorias adicionais no gramado do estádio. Via @geglobo #NFL #Maracanã #BaltimoreRavens

E mentre tutti parlano di #garlasco, la Procura ha chiesto il rinvio a giudizio di Scoppetta e Pappalardo (già condannati anche se non in via definitiva) anche per il procedimento Clean 3, insieme ad altre persone. Il contesto, signori, il contesto è fondamentale. #giustizia #processo #garlasco

Russia’s influence operation arrives ahead of the US midterms With weeks remaining before America's November midterm elections, a familiar type of content has begun appearing online. Videos resembling reports from CNN, the BBC and The New York Times accuse candidates of corruption, antisemitism and misconduct. Hollywood actors appear to denounce Democrats. Other clips claim that warnings about Russian interference are themselves a Democratic disinformation campaign. The reports are fabricated. Graphika, which tracks online influence operations, says it has identified a coordinated campaign targeting candidates in competitive US Senate races. It assesses with high confidence that the material was produced by Operation Overload, also known as Matryoshka – a long-running Russia-aligned influence operation previously active against elections and political debates in Europe and the United States. The activity coincides with a broader warning from American intelligence officials. Classified assessments reported by The New York Times conclude that the Kremlin has authorised another digital influence campaign ahead of the 2026 midterms, aimed primarily at exploiting existing divisions and undermining confidence in American democracy. There is an important distinction. US officials have not reported evidence that Russia is attempting to manipulate voting machines or alter the counting of votes. The operation is about influencing the information environment surrounding the election. Fake scandals for competitive Senate races Graphika traced a concentrated wave of activity between 10 and 14 September. Likely inauthentic or repurposed accounts distributed videos accusing Democratic politicians of corruption, antisemitism and other misconduct. The targets included Senator Jon Ossoff in Georgia, Representative Chris Pappas in New Hampshire and Texas state representative James Talarico, as well as Senate candidates Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Roy Cooper in North Carolina, Mary Peltola in Alaska, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Joshua Turek in Iowa and Troy Jackson in Maine. The selection was not random. These were politicians involved in Senate contests where the result could matter to control of the chamber. The campaign did not rely on a single political narrative. Instead, it attached different accusations to different candidates – corruption, social issues, antisemitism or personal misconduct – while maintaining a consistent production and distribution model. That model is characteristic of Matryoshka: create apparently independent pieces of evidence, disguise them as journalism and distribute them through networks of disposable accounts. Hollywood celebrities who never said what the videos claimed One of the campaign's more distinctive techniques involved genuine footage of American actors. Videos featuring celebrities including Sarah Jessica Parker and Julia Roberts were altered with captions and other material to suggest they were promoting the slogan #AllDemocratsAreCriminals. The technique continued in subsequent material. Fact-checkers identified fabricated New York Times-branded videos using footage of Alyssa Milano, Sean Astin, Rachael Harris, Leonardo DiCaprio, Eric Braeden, Annie Potts and Patrick Fabian. Some of the original footage came from Cameo, where actors record personalised video messages. Their authentic images were retained while fabricated audio, captions or surrounding material changed the meaning entirely. Lead Stories compared several of the clips with the originals and found that the supposed political statements did not appear in the genuine recordings. Eric Braeden's representative separately confirmed that the claim he had joined the anti-Democratic campaign was false. The advantage of the technique is straightforward. Generative AI does not need to create a convincing celebrity from nothing. The operator can begin with authentic footage of a recognisable person and manipulate only the elements necessary to manufacture a political statement. Stealing the authority of real newsrooms Celebrity impersonation was only one layer. The operation repeatedly borrowed the visual identity of established media organisations. Graphika identified material impersonating or falsely citing the BBC, CNN and Politico, alongside references to France's VIGINUM foreign-interference agency and journalist Brandy Zadrozny. Other material reproduced New York Times-style branding. Some fabricated reports made an unusual claim: that Democrats themselves were organising disinformation or “false-flag operations” and then blaming Russia. This creates a defensive layer around the influence operation. Instead of merely distributing false political allegations, the campaign also attempts to discredit future reporting about the manipulation itself. If successful, evidence exposing foreign interference can be reframed as part of the conspiracy. Graphika says it assesses with high confidence that Operation Overload produced these videos. The technique is well established. Earlier investigations by CheckFirst and Reset Tech documented hundreds of falsified pieces of content produced by Operation Overload, often impersonating journalists, institutions and major media brands. AI-generated or manipulated material has increasingly become part of that production system. What US intelligence says Russia is trying to achieve The broader strategic picture comes from American intelligence assessments reported on 18 September. According to US officials familiar with classified findings, the Kremlin has authorised a covert digital influence campaign aimed at Americans during the 2026 election season. Its apparent objective is to seed or amplify domestic divisions and weaken confidence in the political process. Some officials described the principal aim as creating disorder rather than helping a single political party. The publicly identified Matryoshka material examined so far, however, has targeted Democratic candidates. Those two findings should not be treated as contradictory. An operation can exploit partisan divisions while serving the broader objective of making the electoral system appear corrupt, chaotic or illegitimate. US officials also reportedly assess the current Russian campaign as less extensive or coordinated than some previous election operations. Moscow is considered less focused on congressional elections than presidential contests and remains heavily occupied by its war against Ukraine. Russia has denied previous US accusations of election interference. An operation with limited reach – so far There is another reason for caution: producing large quantities of disinformation is not the same as successfully influencing voters. Matryoshka has repeatedly demonstrated an ability to manufacture content at industrial speed, but much of its material receives little genuine engagement. Researchers monitoring the network have previously warned against confusing automated distribution and platform view counts with authentic audience penetration. There are exceptions. A fabricated New York Times-style video featuring Jamie Lee Curtis had accumulated nearly 200,000 views on X by the end of 17 September, according to reporting by The New York Times. Other pieces attracted considerably less attention. There is currently no public evidence demonstrating that the campaign has changed voting intentions or will affect election results. What the September activity demonstrates is something narrower but important: a Russia-aligned influence infrastructure previously used against European elections has now turned significant attention towards the American midterms. The basic method has changed little – impersonate trusted media, manufacture scandals and use networks of inauthentic accounts to distribute them. What has changed is the production technology. Authentic celebrity footage, synthetic voices, manipulated video and rapidly generated fake journalism allow the same operation to produce more tailored material for more candidates at lower cost. The objective does not require Americans to believe every fabrication. Creating uncertainty over which videos, news reports and public statements are authentic can itself degrade trust in the information environment surrounding an election. Sources - Graphika — Russia-Aligned Influence Operation Targets US Midterm Candidates, German State Elections https://www.graphika.com/insights/russia-aligned-influence-operation-targets-us-midterm-candidates-german-state-elections - The New York Times — Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/russia-election-disinformation-us-intelligence.html - Kathimerini / The New York Times — Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1315792/russia-aims-to-inject-chaos-into-elections-us-intelligence-finds/ - CheckFirst — Operation Overload: An AI-fuelled escalation of the Kremlin-linked propaganda effort https://checkfirst.network/operation-overload-an-ai-fuelled-escalation-of-the-kremlin-linked-propaganda-effort/ - CheckFirst — Operation Overload targeting the US election https://checkfirst.network/operation-overload-a-growing-disinformation-threat-now-targeting-the-u-s-presidential-election/ - Lead Stories — Fake NYT videos: Alyssa Milano, Rachael Harris and Sean Astin https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2026/09/fact-check-fake-new-york-times-videos-of-alyssa-milano-rachael-harris-sean-astin-falsely-claim-they-support-all-democrats-are-criminals.html - Lead Stories — Fake NYT videos: Leonardo DiCaprio, Eric Braeden and other celebrities https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2026/09/fact-check-fake-new-york-times-videos-of-leonardo-dicaprio-eric-braeden-other-celebs-falsely-claim-they-support-all-democrats-are-criminals.html - Brennan Center for Justice — AI Is Changing Foreign Election Influence https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/ai-changing-foreign-election-influence - ODNI — previous US intelligence assessment of foreign election information operations https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/NICM-Declassified-Foreign-Threats-to-US-Elections-After-Voting-Ends-in-2024.pdf - FBI / ODNI / CISA — previous joint assessment of Russian election influence operations https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/joint-odni-fbi-and-cisa-statement-110424 #DISINFORMED #Episode9 #Russia #UnitedStates #USMidterms #Midterms2026 #USElections #ElectionInterference #ForeignInterference #RussianInfluence #RussianDisinformation #OperationOverload #Matryoshka #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #FIMI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPropaganda #Deepfakes #SyntheticMedia #MediaImpersonation #FakeMedia #FakeNews #PoliticalDisinformation #CelebrityDeepfakes #SocialMediaManipulation #DigitalInfluence #ElectionSecurity #CognitiveWarfare #Graphika #OSINT #Democracy #WRLD

-Convoca giovani, ma poi Inacio che è quello più promettente finisce in tribuna. -Cisse, tra i migliori giovani di queste prime giornate di Serie A, nemmeno convocato per dare spazio a Cambiaghi e Ali Zoma. -Kayode 90’ in panchina per quella mummia di Di Lorenzo. -Kean ala destra con Vergara in tribuna. -Raspadori con la 10. -Doumbia in panca 80’ quando è tra i giovani più in forma d’Europa. Ogni fallimento di questo Mancini-bis sarà una soddisfazione. 4 anni fa ha mollato tutto mentre era ancora sotto contratto per papparsi i soldi arabi e adesso rieccolo, come se nulla fosse. #SerieA #CalcioGiovanile #Mancini

La lucidità del professor Luciano Canfora andrebbe studiata. A 84 anni suonati, si mette nel taschino tutti quei soloni propagandisti che ci parlano di resistenza ucraina e ripetono come dei pappagalli le veline della NATO e di Ursula von der Leyen. Leggete con molta attenzione: "In Ucraina non stiamo dando armi a una resistenza, ma a un Paese che col suo esercito combatte una guerra con un altro. E con un esito molto diverso dalla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale...La corruzione regna sovrana. Si immagina Parri (Partigiano ndr.) che rubacchia o si rivende le armi della Resistenza? Abbiamo 27 Paesi europei e gli Usa che conducono una guerra alla Russia attraverso l’utilizzo dell’Ucraina, dopo che fallì il processo di smembramento della Federazione russa iniziato con Eltsin. I Paesi europei stanno mandando quattrini a non finire senza sapere neanche che fine facciano. Le stesse armi circolano poi in un commercio illegale. Gli oligarchi ucraini si stanno rimpannucciando a spese dei nostri stupidi governi che svenano i propri Paesi per “morire per Danzica”. Mi prenderò come sempre del putiniano, ma con questo prolungare il conflitto il pericolo è di andare verso il peggio, invece che mettere fine alla guerra." Nient'altro da aggiungere. Sipario! - Giuseppe Salamone #Ucraina #Guerra #Politica

1/2 Nonno si presenta ai giornalisti con la faccia piallata e la pappagorgia in fuorigioco per lanciare il suo refrain preferito: "I Paesi Baltici calpestano i diritti della popolazione di lingua russa". La guerra in Ucraina cominciò così. C'è anche un altro paese con segue>> https://t.co/ZtsZLskFSg #Ucraina #DirittiUmani #Politica

En härlig fredagkväll väntar i Hägglunds Arena. MoDo vs Leksand. 2016. Pappa och son Karlbergs möte med Leksand, Johan Hedlund och Örjan Lindmark möts på tränarbänken, Kelleher möter sitt gamla gäng, lönefredag, mycket folk, ettan mot tvåan i HA. Ni hör ju. 20.00 kör vi. https://t.co/aM622bcUY5 #hockey #MoDo #Leksand

En pappa förde sin svenskfödda dotter i förskoleåldern till Syrien, utan mammans samtycke. Nu döms pappan för grov egenmäktighet med barn till 1 år och 9 månaders fängelse. Flickan hålls fortfarande kvar i Syrien, tillsammans med pappans nya fru. https://t.co/zxVMlSJouL #barnrättigheter #föräldrar #brott

Tänk att vara Milan Sundström i dag. 17 år gammal. Debuterar i ett fullsatt Globen. 3500 MoDo-supportrar - klubbens största bortafölje någonsin - är på plats. På ryggen sitter pappa Niklas nr 24. En debut att minnas. #MilanSundström #Debut #MoDo