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Félix de Bedout stated that a thread from María Paz Gaviria showed that the controversy over Pizarro's hat and the alleged glorification of a guerrilla fighter had served as an excuse for a deeper measure. He claimed that what happened at the National Museum had been a purge comparable to the Nazi campaign against so-called degenerate art, aimed at imposing an official idea of acceptable art. De Bedout pointed out that the measure had been presented as a fight against "woke" culture, despite many of the censored works and objects being from before that term became popular. He also accused those who ran the national cultural institutions of acting with great ignorance and said that, unlike some Nazis who removed works to appropriate them while admiring their authors, in Colombia they did not understand what they were seeing. Finally, he highlighted the response from cultural institutions and figures in the country who, as he wrote, did understand the subject, and referred to the phrase about pulling a gun upon hearing about culture. #Cultura #Arte #LibertadDeExpresión (translated)

Quindici Zero reported that Alejandro Davidovich Fokina had won the Shanghai tournament by defeating Jódar in the Spanish derby 1-6, 7-6, 6-4. After losing the first set, the Spaniard had won the tie-break of the second and completed the comeback in the third. According to the profile, this was Fokina's third title of the season and his first in a Masters 1000. Quindici Zero also recalled that in the third round against Tiafoe, he had saved a match point and wrote that, starting the following day, he would rise to 13th in the world ranking, the best position of his career. The profile also indicated a possible call-up for the Davis Cup. #Tennis #Masters1000 #DavidovichFokina (translated)

The Privacy Guarantor has established that the online publication of rankings for scholarship grants containing unnecessary personal data is unlawful, emphasizing that transparency does not justify the dissemination of confidential information. #Privacy #BorseDiStudio #Trasparenza (translated)

Cláudia Teixeira stated that five commentators distinguished themselves by thinking for themselves, unlike others who, according to her, repeated an ideological line. She wrote that the five voices questioned and dismantled arguments and had the courage to expose what many tried to hide, adding that this made them uncomfortable and made a difference. #Opinião #LiberdadeDeExpressão #VozesAutênticas (translated)

Invictos pointed out that André Jardine had left unexpectedly, the reinforcements had arrived late, and several key players of América had not been available in the early matches. It also mentioned ups and downs in the team's performance. Despite this, and with one game pending, it stated that América was the absolute leader of Liga MX and had only lost once in 11 matches. Invictos maintained that Las Águilas had responded with greatness, personality, and hierarchy, and attributed that ability to the character of the club. #LigaMX #América #FutbolMéxico (translated)

Figures from Trump’s camp, such as Senators Ted Cruz and Thom Tillis, have criticized the president's decision to exempt Russia from sanctions, considering it completely irresponsible and an error, in the context of support for Ukraine and rising energy prices. #Trump #Sancțiuni #Rusia (translated)

Daniele Mari reported that Carlos Augusto said he had entered the field with the aim of helping his teammates and putting Inter's goals ahead of his personal ones. The player had added that the team's victory mattered more than his individual achievements and that, after a difficult summer, he felt calmer this season and had worked a lot. Augusto had also mentioned that he had kept an eye on the World Cup, but considered Inter's victory a priority, while the national team would be a consequence to evaluate later. #Inter #calcio #MVP (translated)

FLOWRA FM (4) NAS RUAS wrote that João Gomes could vote as he wanted, but stated that he would not release his songs for people who supported criminals. He called the Bolsonaros major criminals and alleged that one of them had given 200 thousand reais to the murderer of Marielle Franco. He also questioned João Gomes for singing his song while supporting someone who, according to the author, advocated for the murderer of a 5-year-old child. The author said he believed João Gomes had been coerced into taking a stand and that he later apologized, stating that he should not have said that. He claimed that someone had told the singer to be quiet and threatened to take away what he had achieved. He said he had already gone through a similar situation, declared support for João Gomes, and urged him to defend the rights of Brazilians. He added that otherwise, it would not make sense for the singer to perform his song, and invited him to call. #JoãoGomes #Política #Música (translated)

The charges against the two minors involved in a series of attacks in Rome with a minicar are escalating, including attempted murder, personal injury, and assault, while they will be interrogated by the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office in an investigation that is accelerating. #Aggressione #Roma #MinorennI (translated)

Mario Manca wrote that the creators of Big Brother VIP should have been grateful to Marina La Rosa for her participation. In his opinion, the contestant contributed to creating dynamics and discussion topics thanks to her clarity, dialectic skills, and magnetism, which she had also developed through her experience in the first reality show of its kind. Manca observed that, instead of valuing her, the others seemed to isolate her and distance themselves from her. He also claimed that on Big Brother VIP, less impactful contestants often continued, while La Rosa paid the price for expressing elegantly what she thought. He hoped that especially in the studio, they would realize that attacking her risked damaging one of the central figures of the program. #GFVIP #RealityShow #MarinaLaRosa (translated)

Alan Lopes stated that the interviews of Lula, the day before, and Flávio Bolsonaro, that day, revealed opposite profiles. He described Lula as tired and worn out, said the president seemed uncomfortable with difficult questions, and criticized his language. He also stated that Lula was embarrassed when confronted about promises that Lopes considered false and assessed that he did not convey credibility as a statesman nor would he be able to convince people outside his circle of supporters. Regarding Flávio Bolsonaro, Lopes said that he conveyed lightness, hope, transparency, and emotional balance, in addition to demonstrating preparedness to negotiate with international leaders. The author also claimed that the senator inspired positive expectations and represented the possibility of overcoming a period that, according to Lopes, had taken the country to rock bottom after scandals and abuses against the population. #Lula #FlávioBolsonaro #PolíticaBrasileira (translated)

The wanderer Ceresa Raffaele wrote that, one year earlier at 10:17 PM, a device had exploded under Sigfrido Ranucci's house. He said he had never imagined that the episode could become a pretext to remove Ranucci from Report on Rai 3. According to Ceresa, a campaign of personal attacks had silenced 35 years of work at Rai; he called it a disgrace. https://t.co/bJxCH0mbaK #Giustizia #LibertàDiStampa #Solidarietà (translated)

𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻’𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀 – 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹’𝘀 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲 Ahead of Israel’s 27 October election, hundreds of social-media accounts have been presenting themselves as ordinary Israelis while injecting political messages into genuine domestic conversations. They appear as women, reservists, secular voters, religious activists and frustrated citizens. Some attack Benjamin Netanyahu, others have previously promoted narratives associated with the Israeli right, while many focus less on parties than on a broader message: Israel is divided, its institutions cannot be trusted and its political system is approaching crisis. A detailed investigation by the OSINT company Golden Owl has mapped this activity as a substantial Iran-linked influence network. Its October analysis identified at least 694 accounts, with 445 attributed at high or medium-high confidence to the operation. Between 11 August and 11 October, the network generated at least 4.7 million views and more than 160,000 interactions. The researchers found no evidence that these accounts were simply a group of independent Iranian commentators expressing political opinions. Their assessment rests instead on coordinated behaviour, false identities, account histories, copied content, language patterns and platform metadata linking significant parts of the infrastructure to Iran. 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟯𝟱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘀 The investigation developed in two stages. Golden Owl’s first report, published in September, identified an operational core of 35 accounts: 32 personas presenting themselves as Israelis and three Hebrew-language media-style channels. During the 30-day period measured in that study, active accounts generated 947,322 impressions and more than 9,000 interactions. The October investigation expanded the dataset dramatically. Researchers analysed more than 560,000 data points, including tens of thousands of accounts, relationships between them and more than a quarter of a million posts. The wider network showed repeated patterns of identical texts, synchronised activity and accounts created in batches. The numbers therefore describe not a sudden explosion from 35 to hundreds of accounts, but the gradual exposure of a much larger infrastructure surrounding the original core. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀 Some of the strongest evidence comes from the histories of individual personas. One account had spent years posting exclusively in Persian under the handle “mardeankabooti” before reappearing in August 2026 as an apparently Israeli user called “Alon Strauss”, complete with an Israeli flag and Hebrew political messaging. Other personas presented themselves as Israeli professionals, activists or ordinary citizens while X transparency information showed connections through the Iranian version of the Android application or locations inconsistent with their claimed identities. The account “Yaara Shalev” presented itself as an Israeli woman concerned with democracy and peace. Investigators found that photographs used to construct the identity were inconsistent, including borrowed and apparently AI-generated imagery. A small Hebrew-language channel called KigVoice, previously identified in Israeli government reporting as part of an Iranian influence environment, repeatedly published material that later appeared on the much more visible Yaara account. In one sample, 14 of 40 KigVoice posts subsequently resurfaced as captions or opening lines in Yaara’s content. Another persona, “Miriam Kozak”, had built an audience of more than 18,000 followers and had already been exposed as fictitious by Israeli researchers in 2024. Its political messaging changed substantially over time, moving between narratives associated with different sides of Israeli politics. That inconsistency is important: the apparent purpose was not necessarily to build a stable ideological following, but to enter whichever political argument offered the greatest opportunity to intensify division. 𝗔𝗜, 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 The Iran attribution is based on more than political content. Researchers identified accounts using the Iranian version of the X Android application, repeated connections to previously identified Iranian influence assets, copied posts appearing across supposedly independent personas within minutes, and Hebrew containing unusual grammatical errors or Persian and Arabic keyboard artefacts. Generative AI also appears to have become part of the production process. Some accounts inadvertently published fragments resembling chatbot instructions, while other posts displayed patterns consistent with machine-generated Hebrew. AI-generated videos and synthetic profile imagery further reduced the cost of maintaining large numbers of apparently distinct personalities. However, none of these indicators was treated as proof on its own. Golden Owl explicitly excluded accounts where the evidence was insufficient and notes that VPNs, travel and platform location labels can create misleading signals. The attribution rests on multiple independent indicators converging across the network. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 The network repeatedly exploited issues that genuinely divide Israeli society: responsibility for the 7 October attacks, the war, the hostages, ultra-Orthodox military exemptions, economic pressure, emigration and confidence in state institutions. It also circulated misleading information about the election itself, including false voting dates, claims that voting had been postponed and posts suggesting online voting mechanisms that do not exist in Israel’s parliamentary election system. The pattern suggests a strategy broader than conventional electoral campaigning. Rather than consistently promoting one political faction, the network appears designed to weaken confidence in the government, military, democratic institutions and the electoral process itself. An influence operation does not need to persuade Israelis to support a particular candidate if it can convince different groups that defeat would prove fraud, betrayal or systemic failure. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 One of the network’s most effective characteristics is that it does not depend solely on its own followers. Fake personas enter comment sections and political discussions involving real Israeli journalists, politicians and ordinary users. Authentic Israelis then repost or interact with the material, sometimes carrying it far beyond the original account. Golden Owl does not classify those genuine users as participants in the operation. In most cases they appear to be unwitting amplifiers. But once a message passes from a fabricated Iranian-operated persona to an authentic Israeli account, its foreign origin becomes much harder for the next person to recognise. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟰𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝗯𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱 A much larger figure has also appeared in recent reporting. In the first two days after the October 2023 Hamas attack, social-media intelligence company Cyabra identified more than 40,000 fake profiles participating in online discussions across major platforms. Their content generated hundreds of thousands of interactions and had a potential reach estimated at 531 million profiles. Those numbers are important historical context, but they should not be merged with the current Golden Owl investigation. There is no public evidence demonstrating that all of those 2023 accounts and the 2026 Iran-linked election network belonged to one continuous command structure. The 531 million figure is also an estimate of potential exposure, not proof that 531 million people saw or believed the content. 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? No confirmed individual operators have been publicly identified. Names such as Yaara Shalev, Miriam Kozak and Alon Strauss are personas, not verified identities of the people controlling the accounts. Golden Owl says its evidence supports an association with the Islamic Republic of Iran and with previously documented Iranian influence infrastructure, but it does not establish which Iranian institution, intelligence service, military organisation or contractor directs the network. That distinction is essential. Public OSINT supports attribution at the Iran-linked operational level. It does not currently justify naming individual Iranian officials as the people commanding this specific campaign. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 The Israeli case illustrates a broader change in influence operations. The synthetic asset does not have to be a spectacular deepfake of a politician. It can be an apparently ordinary citizen who comments on politics, argues with neighbours, describes personal experiences and gradually becomes part of an authentic community. That can be more difficult to recognise because the propaganda does not arrive looking foreign. It arrives looking local. And when hundreds of fabricated citizens enter the same national conversation, they can manufacture the impression that political anger, despair or distrust is more spontaneous and more widely shared than it really is. 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 Golden Owl — Exposing the Iranian Regime’s Influence Machinery Against Israeli Society https://web-dev-production-7a35.up.railway.app/resources/research/Exposing-the-Iranian-Regime-Influence-Machinery-Against-Israeli-Society Golden Owl Golden Owl — The Other Face of War: Iranian Regime–Linked Manipulation of Israel’s 2026 Election Debate https://web-dev-production-7a35.up.railway.app/resources/research/Iranian-Regime-Linked-Manipulation-of-Israel-2026-Election-Debate Golden Owl The Jerusalem Post — Iran-linked social-media accounts posing as Israelis to target election https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-909863 The Jerusalem Post Ynet — Fake Israelis, real influence: Iran-linked network infiltrates Israel’s election debate https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/syp119nqqzg ynetglobal Calcalist — Iranian influence network exposed ahead of Israel’s election https://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/s1q0ifijzl calcalist Vesty / Ynet — Iranian fake-account network and October update https://www.vesty.co.il/main/article/rkwokjssgg vesty Israel Ministry for Diaspora Affairs — Iran’s active Hebrew-language influence campaign https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/israel-and-us-strikes-in-iran-daily-status_2_3_26/en/mashlat_Roaring_Lion_israel-and-us-strikes-in-iran-daily-status_2_3_26.pdf Government of Israel Israel Central Elections Committee — official 2026 election timetable https://www.gov.il/en/pages/time--table-26 Government of Israel Channel NewsAsia — historical Cyabra analysis of more than 40,000 fake profiles after 7 October 2023 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/how-fake-news-israel-hamas-stokes-outrage-hatred-and-potential-violence-southeast-asian-tiktok-5603221 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 #DISINFORMED #Episode20 #Iran #Israel #IsraelElection2026 #IranianInfluence #IranianDisinformation #ElectionInterference #ForeignInterference #FIMI #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #FakeAccounts #FakePersonas #SyntheticIdentity #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPropaganda #SocialMediaManipulation #Astroturfing #NarrativeManipulation #PoliticalDisinformation #ElectionDisinformation #X #Twitter #Bots #BotNetwork #KigVoice #YaaraShalev #MiriamKozak #DigitalInfluence #InformationManipulation #ElectionIntegrity #GoldenOwl #OSINT #MediaManipulation #WRLD

Fernando Álvarez praised the Brewers' play and stated that the team did not give up, that its players understood their roles, and that they paid attention to details and fundamentals. He also emphasized the contribution of each member and described the team as humble but with a lot of personality, something that, he wrote, was reflected on the field. #ThisIsMyCrew #Postseason #WorldSeries #Béisbol #Brewers #Deporte (translated)

An association without legal personality close to the PSOE, Cedeu, has submitted complaints to the Supreme Court against the suspension of the vote for grandchildren who have been naturalized under the law promoted by the government of Pedro Sánchez, arguing that this measure violates fundamental rights. #PSOE #LeyDeNietos #DerechosFundamentales (translated)

At the VI Health Conference, the obstacles to democratizing precision medicine in Spain were discussed, highlighting the need to improve funding and territorial cohesion to ensure that all patients have access to personalized and state-of-the-art treatments. #MedicinaDePrecisión #SaludPública #InnovaciónSanitaria (translated)

Miriam González stated that Dr. Paloma Cejas's laboratory at Dana-Farber in Boston had analyzed her liver and bone metastases cell by cell using a technique called single-cell. She explained that, unlike the usual analysis of a whole biopsy, this method allows for the separate study of thousands of cells and the comparison of their active genes. According to González, the test is not usually requested in consultations and is typically conducted in research projects. Flex, a technology from 10x Genomics that can analyze tissue preserved in paraffin, was employed. She added that the study could help identify targets for a potential personalized vaccine and that the next step would be to sequence the entire exome and compare it with her healthy DNA. González thanked those who had supported her with donations, which, she said, financed the Zurich biopsy from which the analyzed bone tissue came and the shipments to Boston. She also noted that sharing her story had contributed to reaching further. #InvestigaciónMédica #Cáncer #Biopsia (translated)