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I believe I just got as close to death as possible. Presidente Dutra highway, near the Internacional Mall heading towards São Paulo. A citizen thought it was a great idea to transport cardboard signs in the luggage of a trailer, without ANY tie-downs or weight. One sign flew off (what a surprise), and simply STUCK to the front windshield of my car at 90 km/h. Seriously, if I didn't crap my pants, I will never do it again; my blood pressure must have dropped to my feet, I almost had a heart attack, if I didn’t crash into someone first. In a fraction of a second, I almost lost everything. I remembered the truck that passed above the height of the overpass and killed the driver in the opposite lane. Our lives are very fragile. Remember: TIE DOWN YOUR LOADS! (translated)

Now, believe me, beyond everything, there is a quality that I discovered in the way of questioning, of interacting, of prosecutor Civardi that excites me. Really. The tone. The timing. The manners. The measured choice of every word, precisely because he is able to give each word its weight. And not just any weight: the exact one. Because Civardi really seems to weigh the words. One by one. In front of such a mind, in my opinion, you have little chance. There is a passage during the interview with Sempio where he says something like this. I’m going from memory: “…he reports having found the Feltrinelli bookstore closed, inexplicably.” (Pause) “On August 13” (micro-pause) “Monday” (If you manage to recover that passage in the video, feel free to post it below). Because in my opinion, everything is there. There’s the skill of a man that you will hardly be able to displace. The same that I found in that question asked to Cassese: a question that asked nothing, it sentenced. Or in the way he managed those two minutes with General Garofano. That’s where you see what an extremely intelligent, cultured, prepared, and capable person can become over time. But above all, there is one thing I am convinced of. A way of speaking like that, such confidence, comes not only from preparation or intelligence. I believe it also comes from the pride of knowing that one can defend one’s honesty. #Garlasco INEXPLICABLY... (That adverb…😍) (translated)

"I am the coach, I told the player he wasn't going to play. I'm going to bench you. If I need you for 30 minutes, you'll play; if not, you won't play. No player will change my mind. Neither him, nor anyone in football. Not any president. Never, absolutely nobody." "I am the coach, I told the player he wasn't going to play. I'm going to bench you. If I need you for 30 minutes, you'll play; if not, you won't play. No player will change my mind. Neither him, nor anyone in football. Not any president. Never, absolutely nobody," were the words spoken by Jorge Jesus during the press conference. (translated)

Jorch, yesterday the biggest corrupt one, your enemy's father, Andy, came out to defend his son against the accusations that the United States is making against his entire family for fuel theft and their alleged alliances with terrorist cartels. You know there is a crisis in Tabasco; they should have told you, just as they told me. The PEJE is very angry and desperate, that's why he went out to shift blame and tell senseless lies without any shame. The father of the most corrupt man in the country pretends to tell us that he has ended corruption. There is not much more to say, except that it is somewhat pitiful to see a poor old corrupt man still betting on spewing lies, believing that this will save him. He knows that there are audios, videos, and photographs of the meetings they had with their sources of funding. He can only pretend that everything is fine while the truth tightens and catches up with him. We all know that he only came out to distract us from the scandals that are piling up. So, once again, Amílcar, the opportunity to rescue your family and give them a peaceful life is still open. Tell us in front of the cameras everything you want to say. Do it for your children, for your family, and for the millions of Mexicans that you and the PEJE's children affected with everything you stole. In any case, you all know how this will end. Andy and his dad do not respect loyalties; they are only loyal to money; they are criminals and corruptors. Besides, they already have your replacement here, and he will also look for you, though I don’t think it’s to interview you. Think about it. I trust you decide to go from villain to hero and tell us what you know. Follow the example of one of the biggest drug traffickers this country has had, who, through a letter, declared the truth about what happened with CUÉN. Andy and his family only use you to get rich. While they laugh and dine like millionaires in Condesa, you are hiding like a rat. What do you think? Let me know and I’ll send cameras to where you are. (translated)

You can put Bob 13 in the president's chair and nothing will change if the STF continues to be corrupt; one politician alone cannot do anything regardless of their position, and while we fight among ourselves, the pigs of the Supreme laugh in our faces. That said, I would never vote for Flávio Bolsonaro because I think he doesn't even know what he's doing there. ⭐️ (translated)

🚨OPINION: Renan can squawk as much as he wants, but he is not above the law. TV Globo's decision is correct The candidate could have been launched by another party, but decided to form his own and already wants to sit by the window. NOVO, founded in 2015, participated in the station's first debate only in 2020. Just like right-wing, center, and even communist parties, the right to participation is limited to surpassing the barrier clause. NOVO has 5 parliamentarians in Congress and, therefore, obtained authorization from the TSE. Renan Santos and his party should elect their parliamentarians before claiming a right that does not belong to them today. (translated)

🚨🚨💣 THE MEDIA CAMPAIGN OF KYLIAN MBAPPÉ 🇫🇷 FOR THE BALLON D'OR 🌕 HAS NOT "RECEIVED AN EXTRAORDINARY WELCOME" FROM THE JUDGES… ❌😶‍🌫️ Pascal FERRÉ 🇫🇷, former editor-in-chief of France Football and co-responsible for the Ballon d'Or, on Kylian MBAPPÉ's media campaign 👇: "WE SAW A CANDIDATE SELF-PROCLAIMING AS THE CHOSEN ONE AND THE FAVORITE, IN ALL LANGUAGES AND ON ALL CONTINENTS. 😅 The good option? WE'LL SEE. But why campaign? It's not the public that votes, IT'S THE JUDGES… AND HAVING STAYED IN TOUCH WITH THEM, I DON'T FEEL THAT THIS CAMPAIGN RECEIVED AN EXTRAORDINARY RECEPTION. 😳❌ I am convinced that it did not influence their votes. Maybe it will work, BUT IF IT WORKS, IT COULD CREATE A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT FOR THE YEARS TO COME that could turn into A LOOTING FAIR." (translated)

Iran’s cognitive warfare – when AI becomes the operating layer of state propaganda Iranian state-linked influence operators were not using artificial intelligence simply to write faster social-media posts. According to Anthropic’s September 2026 threat intelligence report, three separate operations connected to Iranian propaganda institutions were using Claude to help construct the machinery behind what the operators themselves called “soft war” and “cognitive warfare” – non-military efforts intended to shape public opinion inside Iran and abroad. Anthropic linked the activity to the Islamic Culture and Communications Organization (ICCO), which operates under Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance; the Islamic Propaganda Office of Khorasan Razavi; and the Bina Cultural Observatory, part of the Islamic Propaganda Organization. The company said each operation was run by someone working within or on behalf of the named institution. The attribution was based on a combination of account telemetry, institutional references disclosed during conversations, branded documents and open-source corroboration. Anthropic subsequently removed the accounts. AI as an operational headquarters The most significant feature of the operation was the role assigned to AI. Claude was used to develop campaign plans, doctrine manuals, coded project portfolios, persona systems, target databases, early-warning protocols, amplification schedules and ministerial planning documents. Anthropic described the model as the principal administrative and operational layer supporting the three campaigns, allowing relatively small groups of operators to create organisational structures and planning material that would otherwise have required a much larger staff. This distinction matters. The reported use of AI went considerably beyond content generation. Operators were using the model to help organise how influence activity should function: which audiences to target, which identities should deliver particular narratives, how official material should be repackaged and when amplification should take place. Human operators still determined objectives and supplied the underlying political doctrine; AI helped translate those decisions into an operational system. Anthropic found that all three operations explicitly connected their activity to Jihad al-Tabyin, often translated as “explanatory jihad”, a concept used within the Iranian state system to frame information activity as both a strategic and ideological responsibility. In internal planning material examined by the company, this doctrine was not merely rhetorical: it informed manuals and campaign structures used by the operators. ‘Not the narrator, but the director’ One sentence contained in the ICCO material captures the model particularly clearly. According to Anthropic, an operator described the role of Iranian cultural attachés as being “not to be the narrator, but the director” of the narrative. The distinction reveals the logic of attribution laundering. Instead of publishing an overt state message and asking foreign audiences to believe it, the operator attempts to create the appearance that the same narrative emerged independently from journalists, activists, foreign writers or ordinary citizens. Anthropic found that Claude was used specifically to make content appear to come from foreign authors or independent media organisations and to design hashtag campaigns that looked grassroots rather than centrally organised. The ICCO operation reportedly used the organisation’s international cultural network as part of this structure. Anthropic found ministerial-level documents carrying official ICCO branding, including a nine-part international influence portfolio. This makes the operation particularly significant because the infrastructure was not limited to anonymous social-media accounts; it intersected with formal state institutions and an existing network of cultural representation abroad. A multilingual content factory A second operation was associated with the Islamic Propaganda Office of Khorasan Razavi and what Anthropic described as a “cognitive warfare command room” operating from a seminary in Mashhad. Its organisers ran a multi-province content production system known internally as Manjanegh, or “Catapult”. According to Anthropic, dozens of activists were involved in repackaging publicly available reporting from Iranian security institutions under different personas so that the material no longer appeared directly connected to those institutions. The network used Claude to transform official government intelligence bulletins into customised material in Farsi, Arabic, Urdu, Malay, Spanish and English, while planning expansion into a total of 20 languages. Distribution extended across Iranian platforms such as Eitaa, Bale and Rubika and international services including X, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok and YouTube. Anthropic also documented paid amplification across more than 100 Iranian channels, including channels associated with IRGC narratives. The scale should nevertheless be interpreted carefully. Anthropic documented production infrastructure and some real-world dissemination, but it did not demonstrate that all planned campaigns were fully deployed or that they meaningfully changed public opinion. The company placed the operation in Category Three of its Breakout Scale, indicating multi-platform activity with content observed in external distribution channels, rather than evidence of strategic impact on entire populations. From security bulletins to apparently independent voices The Bina Cultural Observatory operation provides another example of the same architecture. Anthropic linked a director-level official at Bina to activity in which Claude generated messaging in the voice of an IRGC spokesperson. During the 2026 US–Israel–Iran war, the network also attributed false claims to Western institutions including CSIS, Brookings and RAND. The apparent objective was to make Iranian state-aligned claims look as though they had been independently validated by respected foreign research organisations. That technique is more sophisticated than simply publishing propaganda under a false name. It attempts to manufacture a chain of external validation: official information is transformed into apparently independent commentary, which can then be recirculated as evidence that outside observers have reached the same conclusion. Anthropic also found target databases naming international officials and Iranian opposition figures, as well as aggressive counter-narrative material directed against the Bahá’í community. These findings show that the infrastructure was designed not only for broad messaging but also for targeted influence activity against specific groups and individuals. What AI changed The Iranian operations described by Anthropic did not create a new doctrine of influence. Iran has used cultural institutions, official media, aligned organisations and covert or semi-covert online networks for years. What AI changed was the economics and organisational capacity of that model. A relatively small team could use the system to draft doctrine, create personas, translate material, structure target databases, produce campaign calendars and generate multiple versions of the same message for different audiences. The operator remained responsible for intent, political direction and selection of targets. AI reduced the amount of human labour required to turn those decisions into a functioning influence operation. The most revealing part of the case is therefore not that an Iranian propaganda network used a chatbot. It is that AI was being treated as part of the back office of information warfare – a system for converting state doctrine into apparently decentralised, multilingual and plausibly independent voices. Sources Anthropic — Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026 Iran International — Iran state-aligned accounts used Claude to push IRGC narratives https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609105561 BNE IntelliNews — Yemen missile cell used AI to write guidance software, Anthropic says https://new.intellinews.com/articles/yemen-missile-cell-used-ai-to-write-guidance-software-anthropic-says-467296 This is Beirut — Anthropic report details Iranian propaganda operations https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/news/politics/anthropic-report-details-iranian-propaganda-operations-and-yemen-missile-development-using-claude Anthropic report — PDF mirror https://static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2026/09/anthropic-detecting-and-countering-091026-1.pdf Keywords #DISINFORMED #Episode11 #Iran #IranianInfluence #IranianPropaganda #CognitiveWarfare #SoftWar #JihadAlTabyin #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPropaganda #GenerativeAI #ClaudeAI #Anthropic #SyntheticMedia #NarrativeManipulation #NarrativeLaundering #AttributionLaundering #PersonaNetworks #Astroturfing #SocialMediaManipulation #DigitalInfluence #StatePropaganda #IslamicCultureAndCommunicationsOrganization #ICCO #IslamicPropagandaOrganization #KhorasanRazavi #IRGC #MultilingualInfluence #Targeting #Amplification #OSINT #WRLD

What a good airline @LATAMAirlines (sarcasm) ☺️ Nothing like sitting in your seat and having no space for your cabin luggage! And being told that tomorrow they will see how to send it to you, and they don’t ask for the address of where you are going to stay or how you can make a claim 😍! That the flight attendants rudely do not want to help and that the passengers themselves have to tidy up the luggage to help each other! And guess what? There was space, but they were annoyed to be able to help the FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE who had no space for their suitcase even with empty seats available :D Damn airline, good thing I was able to fit my things in a bag but that wasn’t the case. (translated)

Bisseck: "It's very, very simple to feel at home at Inter. Everyone welcomed me with open arms: executives, teammates, the city. I like living in Milan; in Milan, you can only be happy. People treat me well; I love the people, I love the fans, the food is good, and you can have fun off the pitch. I've never had a second thought; I wanted to extend my contract, they gave me trust, I'm proud of this, and now there's a lot of work to do. I'm 25 years old; many central defenders aren't at their best at 25; sometimes the prime is at 28-29 years. I think I'm doing well; there’s always room for improvement, and I do everything for that. Inter? In Italy, we are the strongest, and I say it. But it's always easy to talk; we have to prove on the pitch that we are the strongest. And in the end, we have to win the Champions, right? We want to win the Champions, I can say that. We have been so close twice. Or rather, once. We are strong; we can go all the way, but there’s only one game that matters. I hope we will have another chance." (translated)

This week we have approved important measures to protect people, to guarantee the right to housing. I ask Congress to rise to the occasion and sense of state to validate the decrees in tomorrow's session. I ask that humanity prevail over ideology. (translated)

🚨 The club confirms that UEFA has only received the complaint from Real Madrid. Contrary to what is promoted in the Madrid media, UEFA has not spoken at all about opening an investigation. UEFA confirms that it will not do anything before a ruling is issued by the Spanish judiciary. [Via @sport] (translated)