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The author wrote that they commemorated October 7 and did not condone the massacre of civilians, but argued that Israel itself posed a greater threat to Israel than Hamas or Iran. They said Israel fostered people who used the hashtag “#WheresDaddy.” #WheresDaddy https://t.co/VLqeZAEJbd #Israel #Hamas #Peace #IL #IQ

Ultimora.net reported that, in the message for October 7, Sergio Mattarella had recalled the attack by Hamas against Israeli civilians, including young people of different nationalities killed or taken hostage during a party and people kidnapped or killed in their homes, including children and the elderly. Mattarella stated that acts of terrorism could not be justified or forgotten and called for the condemnation of terrorism, anti-Semitism, and all forms of ethnic and religious hatred. He also renewed the Italian Republic's closeness to Israel, to the families of the victims, and to the injured. #Pace #NonViolenza #DirittiUmani (translated)

Jotam Confino wrote that the other day he had photographed a father and daughter in Tel Aviv, as they looked at pictures of the victims of the massacre on October 7 and fallen soldiers. The image made him think about how difficult it must be for a parent to explain to their daughter what had happened that day, and what he described as the subsequent wave of antisemitism. Confino wrote that the massacre had been celebrated by millions around the world, including in Denmark, and that civilians had been executed, kidnapped, tortured, raped, burned, and beheaded. He claimed that the event had triggered the largest wave of hatred against Jews since World War II, and that Hamas was planning attacks against Jews in Europe, while Islamists and the extreme left demonstrated with Hamas flags, including in Copenhagen. He further wrote that Western professors praised the massacre, and that educators at Copenhagen University wished for the destruction of Israel's military. He described Israel as the safest place for a girl of Jewish background to grow up, despite wars and terrorist attacks, and wrote that one day she would have to serve mandatory military service. He also mentioned that Jews were being killed in Sydney, that synagogues were attacked and subjected to demonstrations, and that it had become common to declare oneself anti-Zionist. According to Confino, memorial services for the victims required extensive police protection due to demonstrators. In conclusion, he wrote that he had great respect for parents who could explain to children how cruel the world could be without taking away their hope. He was not sure that he himself would be able to handle that task. #Israel #Antisemitisme #Fremtid (translated)

Tone Kajzer wrote that the attacks on the Israeli civilian population on October 7 were a barbaric terrorist act. He expressed support for Israel and remembrance of the victims, as well as sympathy for the survivors, their families, and all those who still feel the pain of that day. He called for a decisive rejection of antisemitism across Europe and stated that Jewish communities should live openly and safely, without fear. He labeled Hamas as a terrorist organization that has caused indescribable suffering to the Israeli people and wrote that it should be disarmed and demilitarized in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2803, so that the peace plan for Gaza can move forward. #BrezStrahu #Solidarnost #Mir (translated)

Today's date marks the tragic anniversary of the despicable attack perpetrated by Hamas against numerous Israeli civilians. Many young people, including others of different nationalities, were cowardly struck, taken hostage, or deprived of life while gathered for a festive occasion. Others were brutally killed or kidnapped in their homes, with no mercy shown to children and the elderly. Acts of terrorism can never be justified or overlooked. They will remain, for all peoples, a painful warning so that the barbaric and uncivilized scourges of terrorism, antisemitism, and every form of hatred based on ethnicity and religion are always condemned and firmly rejected, in the Middle East and around the world. This is stated by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. #Pace #Terrorismo #Israele (translated)

The Civil Guard has arrested three members of a Chilean criminal gang specialized in home burglaries in Galicia, after committing thefts in Oleiros and Vigo, and one of them will be extradited to Chile for being wanted on various charges. #BandaCriminal #RobosViviendas #Galicia (translated)

The author of the contribution wrote that Hamas and its allies committed a brutal massacre in Israel three years ago, on October 7, 2023, in which, according to him, more than 1,200 civilians were killed and hundreds of others, including women and children, were abducted. He stated that terrorism and attacks on civilians cannot be justified and expressed a wish that such a tragedy never happens again. #Izrael #terorismus #památka #IL (translated)

Marco Rubio, visiting Greece, urges Western civilization to unite and defend its heritage, with the highlight of his visit being a speech from Pnyx about the era of great power competition and the challenges faced by the USA and Europe. #VakarųCivilizacija #Graikija #MarcoRubio (translated)

The author recalled that, three years after October 7th, the pain continued to have names, faces, and stories, and that those horrors should not be erased from memory. He condemned the massacre of civilians, specifying that it should not become a justification for the slaughter in Gaza. #7ottobre https://t.co/gCwUMDbyuu #memoria #giustizia #civili #IL #PS (translated)

The author described Hamas’s attacks on October 7 three years earlier as abhorrent, while alleging that Israel had aided them. They also claimed that Israel had killed many of its own citizens and hundreds of Gazan civilians that day, and questioned why those deaths were absent from commemorations if they were meant to remember tragedy and crime. #Gaza #Israel #Tragedy #IL #PS

The author called to remember October 7, to refuse hatred, and to defend peace. He wrote that on October 7, 2023, Hamas and its allies committed a massacre in Israel, killing more than 1,200 people, the vast majority of whom were civilians. #Paix #Mémoire #Solidarité #IL (translated)

Aurélien Duchêne wrote that, three years earlier, members of Hamas whom he referred to as terrorists had committed the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. He also blamed them for the deaths of countless Palestinian civilians, whom he described as human shields, as well as the destruction of Gaza during the war they had initiated. https://t.co/7AL5KCPXBa #Hamas #Gaza #ConflitIsraéloPalestinien (translated)

The author argued that terrorism had as its sole purpose to target defenseless civilians and described the events of October 7th in this way. He also labeled the act of a Hamas terrorist, who, according to his post, had picked up a terrified child in mockery, as sadistic. #terrorismo #pace #solidarietà #IL #PS (translated)

The author accused Putin of marking his birthday by unleashing another wave of drones and missiles on Ukraine. They wrote that civilians and critical infrastructure were the primary targets, and said residential buildings had been hit in Kyiv, Dnipro, Pryluky and Zaporizhzhia. The post also cited “at least seven” but did not specify what the figure referred to. #Putin #Ukraine #War #UA

Antoine Léaument believed that an uncowed Minister of the Interior would not allow the police to threaten civil authority, to which they owed respect and obedience. He added that such a minister would ask law enforcement to protect protesters rather than repress and mutilate them. #intérieur #manifestations #police (translated)

The author wrote that Hamas had struck Israel three years earlier, describing the assault as barbaric and an attack on civilisation. They said it had cut lives short, shattered families and scarred the nation, adding that Israel had been wounded but not broken. The author also said that horror and trauma had brought resolve and strength, and that the Jewish people stood firm. #Israel #Hamas #JewishCommunity #IL

Nigeria – how pro-Russian influence networks sell military rule as the answer When Nigerians took to the streets in August 2024 to protest soaring living costs and frustration with government, some demonstrations acquired an unexpected symbol: the Russian flag. In Kano, Kaduna and other northern cities, protesters were filmed carrying Russian colours and calling for Moscow’s intervention. Some demanded a military takeover. What initially looked like an unusual expression of anger has since become part of a much larger picture. A September 2026 assessment by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies describes Nigeria as a major target of overlapping foreign information operations, with Russia the most active external actor in its information space. The report does not identify a single centrally controlled campaign. Instead, it maps an ecosystem in which genuine dissatisfaction over insecurity, corruption and living standards is repeatedly redirected towards a broader proposition: democratic government has failed, while the military-led regimes of the Sahel offer a more effective alternative. Turning a real protest into a pro-Russian message The clearest example emerged during the 2024 #EndBadGovernance protests. Nigerian investigative reporting found that a Kano-based TikTok influencer with more than 100,000 followers had been paid through a Telegram channel associated with African Initiative, a Moscow-based media operation linked by researchers to Russian influence activity in Africa. The influencer said the channel supplied photographs, videos and talking points for redistribution on TikTok and Instagram. Among the messages provided were phrases such as “Putin please come and save Nigeria” and “The army is the answer for Nigeria”. Influencers were encouraged to use Hausa-language hashtags including #Zangazanga – “protest” – alongside references to Putin and Russia. Investigators identified 38 accounts circulating similar pro-Russian and pro-military narratives during the demonstrations. Russian flags subsequently appeared among protesters in several northern cities. This does not mean the protests themselves were created by Russia. They were driven by genuine economic and political grievances, and Nigerian protesters gave different reasons for carrying Russian flags. The important feature of the influence activity was precisely that it did not need to manufacture the original anger. It could attach a geopolitical message to an existing domestic crisis. From frustration to the idea of military government The narrative fits a wider pattern seen across West Africa. Russia has developed close relations with the military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, while pro-Russian media ecosystems routinely portray those states as examples of sovereignty, stability and resistance to Western influence. Nigeria, by contrast, has remained under constitutional civilian government since 1999. Africa Center researchers say information networks targeting Nigerians increasingly contrast these two models. Recurring messages depict elections as wasteful or predetermined, civilian institutions as incapable of protecting citizens and military governments as more decisive on security and development. Some content portrays the Sahelian juntas as delivering better roads, lower prices and stronger security even where available evidence points to continuing or worsening instability. Language is central to the strategy. Hausa is spoken across northern Nigeria and neighbouring Niger, allowing political narratives to travel across borders that are far less important online than they are on maps. HumAngle documented efforts involving Nigerien state-linked actors to cultivate Hausa-speaking journalists and distribute material favourable to Niger’s junta and hostile to France and Western influence. The Russian and Sahelian-junta information ecosystems are not identical, but their narratives frequently reinforce one another. Fake journalists inside real Nigerian media The campaign environment extends beyond social media. A 2026 investigation by Graphika and Code for Africa identified 44 ghost reporters and fake experts whose identities were used to place Russia-aligned narratives in African media. Thirty-eight were assessed with high confidence to be fabricated. Their articles or quotations appeared across 138 websites and were amplified by at least 113 Facebook accounts and Pages. Nigeria was one of the most heavily targeted countries. According to the Africa Center’s analysis of the research, Daily Post Nigeria carried 39 articles involving 14 identified ghost authors. Once published by a genuine Nigerian outlet, such material could then be cited by other websites, social-media accounts or even Russian official channels as though it had originated independently in Africa. This is information laundering rather than simple propaganda: the most valuable asset being borrowed is the credibility of the local newsroom. Generative AI added another layer. OpenAI and Meta separately disrupted a Russia-origin network that produced Africa-focused political content and operated Facebook Pages posing as local media organisations. One fabricated commentator, “Dr Manuel Godsin”, was presented as a European-trained geopolitical expert although investigators found no evidence supporting his academic biography. ChatGPT had been used to generate articles under the persona’s name, while Meta removed 37 Facebook accounts and 29 Pages connected to the broader network. Different networks, similar strategic direction It would be misleading to merge all these activities into a single Russian command structure. The African Initiative-linked influencer campaign, the ghost-reporter network and the AI-enabled operation disrupted by OpenAI and Meta were uncovered separately and used different infrastructure. Public evidence does not demonstrate that every actor reported to the same organisation. What connects them is a recurring set of themes and methods: portraying Western partnerships as exploitative, presenting Russia as an alternative security partner, amplifying failures of civilian government, and giving military-led rule greater legitimacy. Investigative reporting on leaked Russian documents has meanwhile described a much wider influence apparatus operating across Africa, involving political consultants, paid journalists, influencers and locally tailored campaigns intended to reduce Western influence and expand Moscow’s position. The underlying technique is less about inventing dissatisfaction than redirecting it. Nigeria faces real security threats, economic pressure and public frustration. Influence operators do not need to persuade Nigerians that those problems exist. They need only influence the explanation for why they exist – and which political model appears to offer the answer. That is what makes the Nigerian case significant. The most effective propaganda does not necessarily introduce a completely false reality. It takes a real crisis and changes where the audience is encouraged to look for the solution. Sources Africa Center for Strategic Studies — The Raging Information Battle in Nigeria https://africacenter.org/spotlight/the-raging-information-battle-in-nigeria/ Graphika — Umbrae Ex Machina https://www.graphika.com/reports/umbrae-ex-machina OpenAI — Operation “No Bell” https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-no-bell/ TheCable — Ghost reporters in African media https://www.thecable.ng/ghost-reporters-how-fabricated-african-voices-carried-pro-russia-narratives/ HumAngle — Nigeria Is Facing an Information War in Its Own Language https://www.humanglemedia.com/nigeria-is-facing-an-information-war-in-its-own-language DAIDAC / CJID — Russian influence during #EndBadGovernance https://daidac.thecjid.org/how-telegram-tiktok-aided-russian-disinformation-that-led-to-incarceration-of-nigerian-minors/ FactCheckHub — How Nigeria’s hunger protest took a radical turn https://factcheckhub.com/from-economic-protests-to-coup-agitation-how-nigerias-hunger-march-took-a-radical-turn/ News24 — Fake Kremlin-linked analyst planted stories in African media https://www.news24.com/southafrica/news/ai-expert-exposed-fake-kremlin-linked-analyst-planted-stories-in-african-media-20260318-0560 Vanguard — AI ‘expert’ exposed https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/03/ai-expert-exposed-fake-kremlin-linked-analyst-planted-stories-in-african-media/ Africa Confidential — How Moscow wages social media war https://www.africa-confidential.com/article/id/15961/how-moscow-wages-social-media-war Keywords #DISINFORMED #Episode15 #Nigeria #Russia #RussianInfluence #RussianDisinformation #Africa #WestAfrica #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #Propaganda #MilitaryRule #MilitaryGovernment #Democracy #PoliticalManipulation #NarrativeManipulation #AfricanInitiative #EndBadGovernance #Hausa #LocalInfluencers #GhostReporters #FakeExperts #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPersonas #SyntheticMedia #AIPropaganda #Astroturfing #SocialMediaManipulation #Telegram #TikTok #DigitalInfluence #SourceLaundering #NarrativeLaundering #MediaManipulation #Sahel #Geopolitics #OSINT #WRLD

The author strongly condemned what they described as the latest Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia, saying they targeted civilian and energy infrastructure. They said threats to civilians and critical infrastructure were unacceptable and expressed solidarity with Saudi Arabia and its people. #SaudiArabia #HouthiAttacks #Solidarity #SA #YE