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Prof. Marcin Szulc presents in the article three categories of attackers: psychopathic, psychotic, and traumatized, emphasizing that rigid psychological profiles cannot be created, as many young people may meet the same criteria, and the key factor is the subjective sense of harm. #zabójstwa #młodzież #przemoc (translated)

Soumaila Diawara reported that Mario Balotelli had addressed politicians around the world with a reflection on the exploitation of African wealth, asking whether this had contributed to mass migration from the continent. Balotelli had described Africa as rich in resources and questioned the reasons for wars, diseases, ignorance, and poverty. He had argued that the answer was well-known but often silent and had associated the slogan "Italy to Italians" with the idea that Africa should belong to Africans. #Africa #Politica #Migrazione (translated)

Felix Perrefort wrote that plagiarism problems among politicians arise because they write dissertations mainly to enhance their resumes and often lack a serious research interest. Such works are often difficult to read and are rarely read outside of assessments; instead of demonstrating their own intellectual achievements, they convey an appearance of scholarly merit. According to Perrefort, only those who truly want to discover something new should write a dissertation. Only people who want to fully dedicate themselves to science should strive for a doctorate. He described it as indecent to present others with 200 to 400-page texts that are merely obligatory exercises and therefore insignificant. Perrefort questioned which politicians felt the need to profile themselves with a doctoral thesis. He described them as career politicians without a "solid foundation of an acquired profession" and wrote that they neither mastered politics nor science. Mario Voigt embodies this problem particularly strongly, Perrefort claimed, accusing him of being unable to say anything about Auschwitz without AI and of lacking independent thoughts. #Plagiat #Doktortitel #Wissenschaft (translated)

Andrzej Śledź wrote that many profiles are spreading — as he assessed, unfounded — information meant to provoke panic and increase reach. He predicted that in two weeks the topic would quiet down, and some people would again claim that the youth are making things up, and that concern for mental health is unnecessary because in the past children were beaten and "it was fine." #zdrowiepsychiczne #informacje #media (translated)

"The end-of-life law can no longer be postponed. Clear and unambiguous rules must be established throughout Italy to fill a dangerous legislative void. To avoid hasty actions, a national law is needed. End-of-life issues touch on very personal rights and intersect with conscience, criminal law, professional responsibility, essential levels of care, and the principle of equality." Highlights Bishop Francesco Savino, Vice President of CEI: "The end-of-life law can no longer be postponed. Clear and unambiguous rules must be established throughout Italy to fill a dangerous legislative void. To avoid hasty actions, a national law is needed. End-of-life issues touch on very personal rights and intersect with conscience, criminal law, professional responsibility, essential levels of care, and the principle of equality." #FineVita #LeggeNazionale #Eutanasia (translated)

Elisabetta Sionis, clinical criminologist, wrote that, if its existence had been established, a supposed personal relationship on Stasi in the Garlasco case would have presented profiles of particular seriousness. She referred to the prohibition provided for by Article 220 of the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure and argued that, if the report had been drawn up before Stasi was registered in the list of suspects, it would have been prejudicial and not authorized by the public prosecutor. #Garlasco #giustizia #dirittopensanti (translated)

IRAN: MEK/NCRI – when AI impersonated a real activist in live conversations For years, synthetic media has largely meant fabricated images, cloned voices and manipulated video. A case uncovered by Anthropic in September 2026 suggests a more consequential development: artificial intelligence being used not merely to imitate how a person looks or sounds, but to behave as that person in an ongoing conversation. Anthropic says it dismantled a distributed influence operation targeting Iranians inside the country and abroad that it linked to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, or PMOI/MEK, and its political front, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. The operators used a shared AI-agent platform to support impersonation, audience profiling, coordinated social-media activity, synthetic personas and the laundering of organisational content through apparently independent accounts. At least four people involved in the operation worked for official NCRI media outlets, according to Anthropic. The company also found references to committee approval processes and MEK leadership, but said it could not independently determine the precise level of central control. Cloning a person from 8,400 Telegram posts The most striking part of the operation involved a real activist whose Telegram identity was copied. According to Anthropic, the operators instructed Claude in Persian that it was now that person, then provided approximately 8,400 of the activist’s Telegram posts so the system could learn and reproduce his writing style. The AI-assisted account was subsequently used to conduct live political conversations with the activist’s existing contacts. Anthropic says that, to its knowledge, the people receiving those messages did not know they were interacting with an account being operated with AI assistance. This is materially different from a conventional chatbot or a static deepfake. The system was not simply producing a forged statement attributed to someone else. It was using a large archive of that person’s authentic language as behavioural training material, then applying the resulting imitation interactively. In practical terms, the deception moved from synthetic content to synthetic identity. Anthropic did not publish the identity of the impersonated activist, nor details of his contacts, and the public report does not establish what specific information the conversations produced. What it does establish is that the impersonation was operational rather than experimental: the cloned account was used in real exchanges with real people. From social-media monitoring to psychographic dossiers The impersonation sat inside a much broader targeting system. Anthropic says the network scraped more than 500 social-media channels and categorised individuals by location, age, profession, political orientation and arrest history. It then analysed approximately 51,944 archived messages from conversations to construct detailed psychographic dossiers on dozens of people inside Iran. The system was therefore not limited to broadcasting propaganda. It was also designed to understand specific audiences and individuals. Profiles could be used to decide what kind of message was most likely to resonate with a particular person, which political identity they appeared closest to and how they should be approached. Anthropic describes this as a structured targeting funnel rather than ad hoc social-media activity. That distinction is important in the Iranian context. Political activists, dissidents and opposition contacts inside Iran can face arrest and severe punishment. The report does not show that the dossiers directly led to arrests or other harm, but collecting and organising information such as arrest history and political affiliation adds a surveillance dimension to what would otherwise be described as an influence operation. A shared AI system for an influence network Anthropic found that the actors used a shared Claude-based platform named “Viktor”, with separate workspaces and persistent memory. Those memory files contained approved sources, prohibited words, account-management instructions and methods intended to reduce the risk of detection. One operator loaded MEK founding doctrine into the system as what the report called “strategic base data”, allowing others to reuse it across their work. This persistent-memory structure meant the AI did not have to be briefed from scratch for every task. Once doctrine, stylistic rules and operational constraints had been stored, the system could repeatedly produce material consistent with the network’s objectives. Anthropic says the same general playbook appeared across different workspaces despite the operators not sharing obvious account infrastructure. The network also used automated pipelines to coordinate Instagram posting schedules and tailor messages to different audiences. Some accounts initially avoided mentioning the Mojahedin at all, allowing material aligned with MEK/NCRI narratives to appear as neutral or independent political commentary. Content was distributed through the organisation’s own media ecosystem as well as accounts presented as ordinary news or activist profiles. Anthropic assessed the campaign as Category Two on its Breakout Scale: active on multiple platforms with distribution through NCRI-linked media properties and amplifier accounts, but without evidence of broad authentic penetration. Synthetic citizens and disguised organisational media The same infrastructure generated AI avatars presented as ordinary Iranians, complete with Persian audio, to promote Maryam Rajavi’s political programme. Anthropic says the synthetic nature of these personas was intentionally concealed. Operators also rewrote and redistributed content originating from MEK-affiliated media while stripping identifying features or presenting it through apparently independent accounts. The network’s political messaging targeted the Iranian government but also rival opposition currents, including monarchists and supporters of the Pahlavi camp. Anthropic documented fabricated video material attacking a member of the Pahlavi family and the use of the slogan “Neither Shah Nor Sheikh”, consistent with the NCRI’s broader competition with other opposition movements. That rivalry provides relevant context. Reuters describes the MEK as one of Iran’s principal organised opposition movements in exile and the dominant force behind the NCRI, led by Maryam Rajavi. Its relationship with other opposition currents is often contentious, while the extent of its support inside Iran remains uncertain. What can be attributed – and what cannot Anthropic’s attribution is unusually specific but still needs to be stated carefully. The company says its investigation linked the operation to MEK/NCRI and established that at least four participants worked for official NCRI media organisations. It also found a common operational playbook, committee review structures and repeated references to MEK leadership. On that basis, Anthropic said central tasking was likely. It nevertheless stopped short of saying it had proven that NCRI’s senior leadership directly ordered or managed every component of the operation. That caveat matters. The strongest public evidence supports describing GTG-84006 as a MEK/NCRI-aligned influence operation involving personnel from official NCRI media, rather than asserting that every action was directly commanded by the organisation’s top leadership. The broader significance of the case lies elsewhere. Earlier generations of synthetic media attempted to fabricate evidence: a photograph, a voice recording or a video. Here, AI was used to maintain an identity over time, remember doctrine, analyse targets and speak directly to real people while appearing to be someone they already trusted. The deepfake was no longer merely an artefact. It had become a participant in the conversation. Sources Anthropic — Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026 AI Misuse Case Library — GTG-84006 activist impersonation case https://www.misuseofai.com/en/cases/gtg-84006-activist-impersonation/ Reuters — Who makes up Iran’s fragmented opposition? https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/who-makes-up-irans-fragmented-opposition-2025-06-18/ Reuters — Iran’s divided opposition senses its moment https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-divided-opposition-senses-its-moment-activists-remain-wary-protests-2025-06-19/ Reuters — NCRI and Maryam Rajavi https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dissident-leader-abroad-urges-iranians-bring-down-khamenei-2025-06-24/ Keywords #DISINFORMED #Episode12 #Iran #MEK #PMOI #NCRI #IranianOpposition #Disinformation #InfluenceOperations #InformationWarfare #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #ClaudeAI #Anthropic #AIDeception #AIImpersonation #IdentityImpersonation #SyntheticIdentity #InteractiveDeepfake #DigitalImpersonation #PersonaCloning #BehaviouralCloning #Telegram #PsychographicProfiling #TargetProfiling #AudienceTargeting #SocialMediaManipulation #Astroturfing #SyntheticPersonas #NarrativeLaundering #CoordinatedInfluence #PoliticalInfluence #DigitalInfluence #OppositionPolitics #IranPolitics #OSINT #WRLD

Daniele Mari has described a possible home kit for Inter for the 2027/28 season, featuring the traditional black and blue vertical stripes reinterpreted with a shade inspired by a snake pattern. According to Mari, Nike would use yellow for the trims and white for the logos. He added that the simultaneous presence of white and yellow or golden details would be rare in the club's home kits. The official presentation, he wrote, should take place in May 2027. #Inter #maglia #football (translated)

If you want to have knowledge of what a deceptive world we lived in, read this. If you want to be aware of what awaits us, read this. This may be my most important text. Once, "trolls" were farm workers who wrote what they were dictated. Now troll farms are collapsing because bots are replacing humans. Today, one moderately skilled programmer could control 100,000 bots. Hence the conflicts; troll farms are no longer needed, so why pay them? I saw a troll farm from the outside. I didn't enter their structures, I didn't create a fake account with a flag in the description, and I didn't write under the teachers' strike that children are hostages. I watched from a distance, at the network, at the comments that appeared quickly, too quickly, too consistently, too often on the same issues. And at the company that functioned for years like an ordinary e-PR agency. In 2019, an investigation by Newsweek and the Reporters' Foundation showed that the Wrocław Cat@Net was not just another agency for "creating a presence on social media." It was an organized troll farm. A dozen people managed over 170 fake profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. The content reached millions of recipients. The business was co-financed from PFRON, as the company employed disabled individuals and could offer clients tax deductions. From November 2015 to August 2019, Cat@Net received around 1.5 million zlotys from the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons. From the outside, it looked innocent. An advertisement for teleworking, a student or graduate needed after journalism, working from home, "skillful influencing of recipients." Clients included large companies, small businesses, public administration, private individuals. In practice, accounts were built like characters from a series. A right-wing patriot from Żoliborz, a traditionalist, a student, a chatterbox. A photo from university, a post about lunch, and then, when a scandal erupted, a flood of comments. Teachers' strike - children as hostages, teachers are egoists in expensive scarves. TVP and Jacek Kurski - defense, image warming, attacks on critics. After the death of Paweł Adamowicz, blaming WOŚP and Owsiak, comparisons meant to shift responsibility from public television. What struck the most was not ideology, but flexibility. The farm had business accounts to slander companies, products, and brands, as well as political ones. It worked for TVP, but also for PiS politicians when they needed support before the European Parliament elections. Trolls from the same agency could publicly argue, but only according to a script. It wasn't about beliefs. It was about commission. The trails led journalists further, to the Art-Media agency, to circles associated with "Najwyższy Czas" and "Gazeta Polska," to names in the orbit of Antoni Macierewicz and Bartłomiej Misiewicz. I saw how easily a real person disappears behind an avatar, and the avatar begins to shape a debate that no one explicitly ordered, only paid for the chaos or falsehood of specific events. The troll farm didn't need us to believe in it. It was enough that we click, comment, and recognize as important and significant the voice produced on commission. PiS didn't have to paint the sign "PiS troll farm" on the office door to benefit from it. In practice, within the power camp, there was a mechanism that Newsweek's investigation exposed bluntly. It was fake accounts that coordinated hatred, defended TVP and Jacek Kurski, and attacked Owsiak, WOŚP, and Paweł Adamowicz, along with public money from PFRON that helped sustain this industry. It was a political infrastructure of lies, distorting the image of Poland as "Poland in ruins," pumping propaganda and sowing hate speech under the guise of "ordinary citizens." As long as a troll was right according to the line of power, no one in this environment asked whether the account was real. They only asked whether the post hit the opponent. #InstituteOfTruth #InstytutPrawdy #dezinformacja #trolle #media (translated)

Mam już pierwszą listę ponad 100 profili X z farmy trolli @szefernaker'a, jutro o godzinie 8.00 rano pokażę kogo banować. Po pierwszym zerknięciu, uprzedzam, nie oczekujcie sensacji to w większości bezmyślne boty, zaraz zajmę się przeglądaniem i spisywaniem nicków. Poproszę RT https://t.co/EEdt5a23qE #trolle #boty #dezinformacja

Uwaga! W środę będę miał pierwszą listę ponad 100 profili X z farmy trolli @szefernaker. Lista jest od typa z którym Pawka współpracował od kampanii prezydenckiej @AndrzejDuda, ale poszło "na noże" o kasę i władzę. Będzie co banować, to w większości bezmyślne boty. Poproszę RT https://t.co/pC0bdFw5nt #trolle #boty #socialmedia

Matteo #Piantedosi: “Rimpatriato il trapper “Bratan”: aveva bloccato la Milano-Meda per realizzare un video musicale non autorizzato, mettendo in grave pericolo la sicurezza degli automobilisti in transito. Le indagini, condotte anche attraverso l’analisi di diversi profili social, hanno permesso di identificarlo come il motociclista alla guida del gruppo che aveva paralizzato la circolazione. In considerazione della sua pericolosità sociale, gli è stato revocato il permesso di soggiorno ed è stato imbarcato sul primo volo diretto nel suo Paese di origine.” #SicurezzaStradale #Rimpatrio #Musica

Rimpatriato il trapper “Bratan”: aveva bloccato la Milano-Meda per realizzare un video musicale non autorizzato, mettendo in grave pericolo la sicurezza degli automobilisti in transito. Le indagini, condotte anche attraverso l’analisi di diversi profili social, hanno permesso di identificarlo come il motociclista alla guida del gruppo che aveva paralizzato la circolazione. In considerazione della sua pericolosità sociale, gli è stato revocato il permesso di soggiorno ed è stato imbarcato sul primo volo diretto nel suo Paese di origine. #Bratan #Milano #Musica

«non serve a nessuno ulteriore benzina sul fuoco»Il ministro della Difesa italiano Guido Crosetto ha scritto sui suoi profili social che non ci sono conferme di possibili attacchi russi contro Italia, Spagna e Francia, una possibilità presentata dal quotidiano spagnolo El Mundo sulla base di un report della CIA. #Russia #NATO #SicurezzaEuropea

AfD-Fraktion fordert sofortige Abberufung von Transatlantik-Koordinator Hakverdi! Nach dem provokanten Social-Media-Auftritt des #Transatlantik-Koordinators der #Bundesregierung, Metin Hakverdi (#SPD), an der US-mexikanischen Grenze in El Paso fordert die AfD-Bundestagsfraktion personelle Konsequenzen von #Bundeskanzler Friedrich #Merz. Hakverdi hatte am Rande seiner USA-Reise in einem Instagram-Video die amerikanische Debatte über #Grenzsicherung als „hysterisch“ abgetan, US-Präsident Donald Trump indirekt „Schaum vorm Mund“ attestiert und den dortigen Grenzschutz als bloßes städtebauliches Problem relativiert. Der Vorfall ereignete sich unmittelbar im Anschluss an die feierliche Übergabe des ersten Tarnkappen-Kampfjets vom Typ F-35A an die Bundeswehr in Texas. Statt die militärische und sicherheitspolitische Partnerschaft zu vertiefen, nutzte der SPD-Politiker seinen Aufenthalt für parteipolitische Profilierung an der Grenze und brüskierte damit die amerikanische Administration sowie weite Teile der US-Öffentlichkeit. Selbst innerhalb der Berliner Regierungskoalition stieß das Video auf erhebliche Kritik und wurde als diplomatischer Tiefpunkt eingestuft. Dazu erklärt der stellvertretende Fraktionsvorsitzender und außenpolitische Sprecher der AfD-Fraktion im Deutschen Bundestag, Markus @Frohnmaier_AfD: „Die Aufgabe eines Koordinators für die transatlantische Zusammenarbeit besteht darin, Brücken zu unserem wichtigsten Bündnispartner zu bauen, verlässliche Gesprächskanäle zu pflegen und deutsche Interessen auf Augenhöhe zu vertreten. Metin Hakverdi verhält sich hingegen wie ein arroganter Social-Media-Aktivist auf Klassenfahrt. Wer als Regierungsbeauftragter an die Grenze unseres wichtigsten Partners reist, um dessen Innenpolitik lächerlich zu machen, den demokratisch gewählten US-Präsidenten zu verunglimpfen und legitimen Grenzschutz zu diskreditieren, ist für ein Amt, das diplomatisches Fingerspitzengefühl erfordert, schlicht untragbar. Wir haben als AfD-Bundestagsfraktion in mehreren Anträgen wiederholt gefordert (vgl. https://t.co/cunt4mnpzE ), den politischen Wandel in Washington und die sicherheitspolitische Neuausrichtung der Vereinigten Staaten endlich als Chance für eine neue, pragmatische und interessengeleitete transatlantische Partnerschaft zu begreifen. Stattdessen setzt die Bundesregierung ihre fatale Tradition der belehrenden Gouvernanten-Diplomatie nahtlos fort. Ausgerechnet Politiker einer Koalition, die im eigenen Land seit Jahren die Kontrolle über die Staatsgrenzen verweigert und die Migrationskrise verwaltet, maßen sich an, den Vereinigten Staaten Ratschläge zur Sicherung ihrer Außengrenzen zu erteilen. Dieses Verhalten beschädigt das deutsch-amerikanische Verhältnis nachhaltig und zerstört das Vertrauen in die außenpolitische Verlässlichkeit unseres Landes. Deutschland kann sich keine diplomatischen Geisterfahrer im Auswärtigen Amt leisten. Wenn Bundeskanzler Merz noch einen Funken außenpolitische Glaubwürdigkeit retten will, muss er Metin Hakverdi mit sofortiger Wirkung von seinen Aufgaben als Transatlantik-Koordinator entbinden.“ #Transatlantik #Merkel #Außenpolitik

La Presidente della @EU_Commission Von der Leyen annuncia oggi a Strasburgo che in Europa saranno vietati social media ai minori di 13 anni e vietati profili personali ai minori di 15 anni. Una misura drastica che condivido perchè serve a fronteggiare l’abuso di social media e https://t.co/0Lad3EWURs #SocialMedia #Minori #Regolamentazione #EU #FR