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Maria Rosander wrote that she had been elected as a municipal councilor in Uppsala Municipality and thus became the Sweden Democrats' first municipal councilor in the municipality's history. She stated that the real work was now beginning and that she looked forward to the coming four years. Rosander thanked those who voted for the party and wrote that she wanted to claim power in the municipality. #Uppsala #Sverigedemokraterna #kommunalråd (translated)

Els van Veen wrote that people in the Netherlands who questioned mainstream narratives were met with fierce condemnation, negative articles in national newspapers, and damage to their reputations, according to her. She mentioned, among others, Dr. Jan van de Beek and Ir. Wouter de Heij, stating that this was not only happening around immigration but also in discussions about climate, Russia, and other subjects. Van Veen referred to former General Van Kappen, who, according to her, spoke on television about an information war in which everyone participated. She wrote that critics were often ignored when it later turned out that their questions were justified. She claimed to have experienced this herself when she asked questions about the corona policy: she received threatening letters from the Inspection and became the subject of negative articles in national newspapers. She stated that those who had reported her to the Inspection at the time were now silent, while, according to her, new narratives were emerging. Van Veen expressed her admiration for Van de Beek and De Heij. According to her, they made it clear what the consequences were when narratives were protected and critics were combated, instead of pursuing policies that centered on the well-being of the Dutch people. She wrote that the internet had ensured that their viewpoints could be heard. #informatieoorlog #narratieven #vrijeopinie (translated)

"Many elected officials within Reform believe the party is putting on an acceptable face to get elected, and then would install a British ICE, engage in mass deportations, or enact violent reprisals against civil servants, police officers, and others who it felt had betrayed Britain."

Volker Ketzer wrote that a public toilet is being built in Hadamar in Hesse for 355,700 euros, which, according to him, is only to be used on six days a year during the fair and the Christmas market. He explained that the majority of the costs are being financed by the state of Hesse. Regarding possible cost-saving measures, he jokingly remarked that these would likely be limited to toilet paper for the project. #Hadamar #Hessen #ÖffentlicheToiletten (translated)

'Beyond pathetic': Darline Graham under fire after 'weak' defense of her dead brother She talked with South Carolina reporters a day after Trump put on hold the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act. Her brother had spent more than a year lining up votes for it before he died.

The profile Só Quem é LULA 2026 stated that ICL Notícias had reported that Daniel Vorcaro, the owner of Banco Master, paid R$ 10 million per year to CNN and demanded to approve the questions before interviews. According to the profile, executives from the channel frequently asked for money, and an executive from Master allegedly described CNN as a recurring source of money requests. The author also accused CNN of giving space to Roberta Luchsinger to make accusations against Lula and Lulinha without presenting evidence, documents, or facts. It was stated that Vorcaro financed the channel and that Flávio traveled by private jet with him and negotiated millions with Banco Master. In the profile's assessment, Roberta's interview was not journalism but a service rendered; it also claimed that CNN charged instead of interviewing. The publication also mentioned the hashtags #DebateNaBand, #UmaSemanaParaOTetra, #AtoPelaDemocracia, #ElesPoderiamEstarVivos, and #VacinaSalvaVidaBolsonaroTira, in addition to Haddad, Roberta Luchsinger, Lulinha, Ministry of Prosperity, Pablo Marçal, Marcelo Aguiar, Collor, Nexus, PoderData, Bolsonaro, and Globo, in a series of references to topics and people that, according to the author, appeared in the debate or trends. In the end, it requested that the content be shared before it disappeared. #CNN #Imprensa #Jornalismo (translated)

Glenn criticized a writer in Aftonbladet for having misunderstood a Generation X attitude towards politics and music, according to him. He argued that Metallica's audience did not want political statements from the band and that James Hetfield and the other members understood their audience. Glenn asserted that Metallica's actions against file sharing via Napster were about protecting the band's music, not about politics. He recounted that a friend received a message saying she had been banned from Napster by Metallica, but they laughed about it. He called it brain-dead to describe Metallica as cowardly for not wanting to dedicate playtime to Palestine, the environment, or Russia. Glenn also wrote that Hetfield's statement about politics and music was hypocrisy. https://t.co/ZKhpjjkCKt #Metallica #musik #politik (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

Keijo Kaarisade wrote that, unlike Yle, he did not wonder about the events in France. He called for the courage to dream and a nobler vision of Europe, where, according to him, no one in need or hungry should have to rob a Louis Vuitton or Hermés store to survive. https://t.co/dkdhmR62PV #Eurooppa #Unelmat #Uskallus (translated)

We see nothing good in this war. We see many disadvantages, including the very real risk that the situation escalates and spreads… to another country due to a failed sabotage attack or because drones disrupted by electronic warfare fly into a neighboring country. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke in Uzbekistan on Monday, saying that Russia and Ukraine should focus on ending the war – writes Reuters. I don’t know where he gets these things or why he says them to the press. Go back and ask him! There was no pause. Marco Rubio denied on Monday that information provision had been suspended. #Ukrajna #Trump #Zelenszkij (translated)

The Estonian National Opera opened the season with a theater fair and the "Estonia 120" concert, but at the same time, there is a brewing leadership crisis at the opera theater, which needs to be resolved following Ivari Ilja's departure and Merilin Piipuu's assumption of the position of chair of the council. #Estonia120 #rahvusooper #teatrikriis (translated)

Monique X-Fluencer wrote that a white man on Love is Blind said he wasn't into dark-skinned women. According to her, he could have that preference, but he received online criticism. She referred to a woman who, in her opinion, believed a white person shouldn't express a preference, while the same should apply to a dark person because slavery and apartheid had only recently been abolished. Monique argued that there was racism and discrimination when people were treated differently based on skin color or ethnicity. She used derogatory language about the woman and others who shared her viewpoint. #liefde #racisme #discriminatie (translated)

There used to be a high number of social workers and nurses who had worked with quality supervision. But now lawyers and other individuals skilled at uncovering criminal arrangements were needed. When we assigned the special HVB supervision task to Ivo, things began to happen, said Camilla Waltersson Grönvall. #SvenskPolitik #Ivo #Kriminalitet (translated)