In 2026, the city of Brussels collected 38.3 tons of abandoned nitrous oxide canisters from the streets, revealing a troubling increase in their consumption and a change in user behavior as they no longer hide. #ProtoxydeAzote #GazHilarant #SantéPublique (translated)
Watt The Duck called to continue spreading the hashtag #ZeroParrainagePourMelenchon until it reaches the 36,000 town halls of France. He reminded that at this stage, no sponsorship was definitive and that they were only promises. According to him, the official collection campaign was supposed to start around February 2027 and the Constitutional Council would publish all sponsorships. #Politique #Elections2027 #Melenchon (translated)
A network of money-laundering collectors based in Essonne managed to raise over one million euros in just two months. #AccèsRefusé #FaitsDivers #CollecteDArgent (translated)
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Andy Burnham.. needs to explain to communities their bins won't be collected, social services will collapse, libraries will be closed, because he's more worried about defending the genocide he's arming than working with Green councillors" Well said Zack.
Before October 17, a multitude of future demonstrators, united by various grievances ranging from high school mobilizations to the need to live properly, express their demands through numerous testimonies collected by franceinfo. #17octobre #mobilisation #pouvoirdachat (translated)
The market of Enfants rouges in Paris, ravaged by a fire that destroyed seventeen businesses, is launching a public fundraising campaign to finance its reconstruction, with the support of the City of Paris. #Incendie #MarchéDesEnfantsRouges #Paris (translated)
There are still 240 million euros missing to finance the repairs of the Chernobyl dome, damaged by a Russian drone, and a donors' conference will be held in Paris on November 9 to raise additional funds. #Tchernobyl #G7 #Ukraine (translated)
The Viva For Life operation returns for its 14th edition in La Louvière from December 17 to 23, bringing together eight former hosts of the Cube for a fundraising campaign over 144 hours of live broadcast against child poverty. #VivaForLife #LutteContreLaPauvreté #ActionCaritative (translated)
Despite progress in implementing measures, the world "cannot avoid the worst impacts of climate change" without "the full participation" of oil and gas producers in collecting this data, warns Martin Krause, director of the climate change division of UNEP. #Methane #ChangementClimatique #Environnement (translated)
Emmanuel Grégoire is committed to rebuilding the Enfants Rouges market, recently ravaged by a fire in Paris, while announcing the launch of a fundraising campaign by the Heritage Foundation. #MarchéDesEnfantsRouges #Paris #Patrimoine (translated)
The Heritage Foundation has launched a fundraising campaign to rebuild the Enfants-Rouges market in Paris, ravaged by a fire. #AccessRefusé #FondationDuPatrimoine #MarcheParisien (translated)
François Asselineau would have succeeded in raising 130,000 euros to fund his fourth presidential campaign in 2027. #Election2027 #FrançoisAsselineau #PolitiqueFrançaise (translated)
Chinese electric cars used during a military exercise in Norway have been suspected of collecting sensitive data, including video recordings of military activities, raising concerns similar to those that led Poland and other countries to prohibit access of Chinese vehicles to their military sites. #VoitureÉlectrique #Espionnage #Armée (translated)
Apate is an innovative system made up of nearly 350,000 chatbots that trap phone scammers by keeping them online as long as possible to collect information about them while protecting the real victims of scams. #Cybersécurité #IntelligenceArtificielle #Escroqueries (translated)
The strike launched by the ACOD in public services in Belgium will lead, starting this Sunday evening, to significant disruptions, with only 40% of public transportation operational and impacts on waste collection and various services, including education and media. #Grève #ServicesPublics #Transports (translated)
The national demonstration on October 9, organized by the trade unions FGTB and CSC, led to serious disruptions in waste collection in the Brussels region, with up to 98% of waste bags not being collected in some municipalities. #GrèveBruxelles #CollecteDesDéchets #Perturbations (translated)
Russia’s war propaganda gets a soundtrack – how AI-generated songs reached global streaming platforms Russian war propaganda is no longer confined to television broadcasts, Telegram channels or political videos. A study by the Ukrainian threat-intelligence organisation Terrecon has identified 981 songs combining signs of AI generation with pro-Russian military narratives, distributed through an ecosystem that reaches YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and SoundCloud. The songs range from sentimental ballads to rock and heavy metal. Their recurring themes are familiar from conventional Russian wartime propaganda: the heroisation of Russian soldiers, romanticisation of the war, mobilisation, the “Russian world”, commemoration of fallen troops and attacks on Ukraine and its armed forces. Some contain derogatory or dehumanising references to Ukrainians. What is new is not necessarily the message, but the production and distribution model: generative AI allows propagandistic music to be produced rapidly, cheaply and in quantities that would previously have required musicians, studios and producers. Nearly 1,000 tracks identified Terrecon examined 3,725 tracks collected from YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud and the AI music platform Suno. After manual review, researchers classified 981 as showing both indications of AI generation and pro-Russian war propaganda. In 681 tracks they identified 728 propaganda-related keywords or phrases. The largest category was the glorification of the Russian military, followed by romanticised treatment of Moscow’s so-called “special military operation”, mobilisation appeals, narratives about the “Russian world”, and the cult of fallen soldiers and the state. The reach was not merely theoretical. Listening or viewing statistics were available for 608 of the identified tracks; together they had accumulated 86.8 million plays and views, according to Terrecon. A smaller group of 13 high-performing songs accounted for more than 53 million YouTube views and more than 67 million when YouTube Music was included. Among the better-known examples is “Power of Artillery”, a Russian-language rock song praising artillery weapons that passed two million views on YouTube. Most of the tracks for which publication dates could be established appeared after 2024, broadly coinciding with the rapid expansion of consumer AI music generators such as Suno and Udio. That correlation does not prove that AI alone caused the increase, but it illustrates how drastically the economics of production have changed. A propaganda song for as little as $11 Terrecon also tested how difficult it would be to commission such material. Researchers approached 25 creators producing AI-assisted militaristic music; 15 agreed to take commissions. Prices ranged from approximately $11 to $330, while delivery times ranged from two hours to three days. According to Terrecon, some were prepared to produce highly aggressive anti-Ukrainian material, including content intended for audiences involving children from occupied Ukrainian territories. Some creators used Russian intermediary services that provided access to Western AI tools such as Suno and Udio despite restrictions. The researchers then tested several AI generators themselves. Across 40 prompts submitted to Suno, Udio, Mureka, Google Flow Music and ElevenLabs, 25 resulted in successful generations, while safeguards were circumvented in 15 cases. Terrecon reported that four of the five services tested produced Russian-language material containing wartime narratives, although technical problems prevented comparable testing on some systems. In one Udio experiment, the researchers said the model itself introduced more explicit violent language than had appeared in the original promp These tests do not demonstrate that the commercial platforms knowingly support Russian propaganda. They show something narrower: existing safeguards can be inconsistent when political messaging is packaged as music. From generation to Spotify The distribution experiment may be the most revealing part of Terrecon’s research. The team deliberately uploaded test tracks containing explicit hostile language to YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer. Terrecon says none was blocked during the experiment. On SoundCloud, researchers used an account identifying its location as Moscow, disclosed the use of AI and added markers including references to the Russian military and the war. The platform accepted the upload and subsequently offered paid promotional and distribution tools. This does not prove that streaming recommendation systems systematically promote pro-war music. There is currently insufficient public evidence to make that claim. It does demonstrate that material can enter the same commercial distribution infrastructure as ordinary music and, once there, potentially benefit from playlists, searches, sharing and recommendation mechanisms available to other releases. That distinction is important. Propaganda no longer has to announce itself as political communication. On a streaming platform it can look like another song. Culture as a delivery mechanism Music has always been used in wartime propaganda. What generative AI changes is scale. Instead of investing heavily in a limited number of patriotic performers or officially commissioned productions, creators can generate variations across styles, audiences and emotional registers at very low cost. Terrecon found material ranging from war rock to sentimental songs and content styled for younger audiences. Some creators also experimented with cloned celebrity voices and stylistic imitation of established musicians. The format also offers a different relationship with the audience. A political video asks a viewer to consume an argument. Music can accompany commuting, exercise or entertainment and may be encountered outside explicitly political spaces. This does not automatically make it more persuasive, and Terrecon’s research does not establish measurable effects on political attitudes. It does, however, place wartime narratives inside a cultural environment where users may not initially perceive themselves as consuming political messaging. An ecosystem, not a proven Kremlin command structure The strongest evidence supports describing this as a growing AI-assisted pro-Russian propaganda-music ecosystem, not a single operation controlled from Moscow. Terrecon did not establish that the Russian government created, financed or coordinated all 981 tracks. Reporting on the study likewise notes that the extent of direct state involvement remains unclear. There is broader evidence that the Russian state finances cultural projects and digital content supporting the war, including through state-backed funding bodies. That context matters, but it does not allow individual songs in Terrecon’s dataset to be attributed to the Kremlin without additional evidence. The significance of the case lies elsewhere. AI has reduced the cost of producing ideological content, intermediaries can help creators access generation tools, and global platforms can provide distribution. The result is a pipeline in which wartime propaganda no longer has to resemble propaganda at all. It can simply appear in a playlist. Sources Terrecon / Ukrainska Pravda — Daria Verbytska on the research https://www.pravda.com.ua/columns/2026/10/05/8056229/ Suspilne Culture — detailed breakdown of Terrecon findings https://suspilne.media/culture/1417933-rosijsku-voennu-propagandu-maskuut-pid-anime-karaoke-ta-rok-doslidzenna-si-pisen-vid-terrecon/ The Insider — AI-generated Russian war propaganda music https://theins.ru/news/297839 Institute of Mass Information — summary of New York Times reporting https://imi.org.ua/en/news/doslidzhennya-rf-masovo-stvoryu%D1%94-propagandistski-pisni-za-dopomogoyu-shi The Bridge Media — AI-generated songs and Russian military propaganda https://thebridgemedia.com.ua/en/ai-generated-songs-russian-military-propaganda/ Center for Strategic Communication — cost and production of AI propaganda music https://spravdi.org/propaganda-za-11-yak-rosiya-shtampuye-shi-pisni-z-miljonamy-prosluhovuvan/ Times of India — AI-generated Russian war songs https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/ai-sings-russias-war-story-inside-the-rise-of-generative-songs-about-ukraine-conflict/articleshow/134650594.cms EU Council / EUR-Lex — Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32026D1351 Human Rights Watch — Russian state funding of digital and patriotic content https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/30/disrupted-throttled-and-blocked/state-censorship-control-and-increasing-isolation #DISINFORMED #Episode16 #Russia #Ukraine #RussianPropaganda #WarPropaganda #MusicPropaganda #AIMusic #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #SyntheticMedia #AIPropaganda #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #CulturalPropaganda #DigitalInfluence #NarrativeManipulation #PropagandaMusic #StreamingPlatforms #Spotify #AppleMusic #YouTube #YouTubeMusic #Deezer #SoundCloud #Suno #Udio #RussianWorld #RusskiyMir #MilitaryPropaganda #WarNarratives #Mobilisation #AlgorithmicDistribution #RecommendationAlgorithms #MusicStreaming #PlatformManipulation #Terrecon #OSINT #MediaManipulation #WRLD
Serge Kanyinda 13 believes that the work of former Finance Minister Nicolas Kazadi should be recognized. According to him, the standardized electronic invoicing, the modernization of VAT collection, and other reforms initiated during his term continue to have an impact. #Finance #Réformes #TravailAcharné (translated)
"I think it's too much. Some, I don't know why they come, because they just don't care and they are only there to collect voters. For 2027, none of the candidates appeal to me." For Eva, the excitement is clearly excessive: "I think it's too much. Some, I don't know why they come, because they just don't care and they are only there to collect voters. For 2027, none of the candidates appeal to me." #SommetDeLElevage #Elections2027 #PolitiqueAgricole (translated)
"If the French do not choose a political breakthrough, France is heading towards insolvency," France's most popular presidential candidate Marine Le Pen announced on Tuesday that if she is elected president next year, she will implement a €140 billion spending cut by 2032. #maksud #usaldus #riigieelarve (translated)
