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Apollo News reported that AfD politician Wilko Möller must pay 11,600 euros due to an election poster. It depicted two parents forming a protective roof over three children with their arms. The Federal Court of Justice rejected Möller's appeal; the ruling is therefore final. https://t.co/rVTfMG7rLv #Wahlen #Rechtsprechung #Politik (translated)

NIUS reported that the Brandenburg AfD member of the state parliament, Wilko Möller, had been sentenced to a fine of 11,600 euros due to an election poster. The court evaluated the depicted arm position as being very similar to the Hitler salute. The Federal Court dismissed Möller's appeal against the ruling of the Frankfurt (Oder) Regional Court. https://t.co/AXY63vm5SZ #AfD #Gericht #Wahlkampf (translated)

Impact, relaying information from Le Parisien, reported that the government announced measures to respond to the anger of high school students. According to the report, Parcoursup is set to be replaced in 2028, and starting in 2027, schools will have to justify their rejections and make their selection criteria more transparent. Impact also indicated that second-year classes will be limited to 28 students starting in the 2027 school year in half of the least advantaged high schools, and then in the others in 2028. The government planned, according to them, an additional 15,000 spots in higher education: 10,000 in BTS, 4,000 in IUT, and 1,000 in health training. The report also mentioned 5 billion euros destined for the renovation of schools, including 4 billion in low-interest loans for middle and high schools and an additional billion for universities. It added that more than 800 layoffs in secondary education would be cancelled, with 500 additional positions to reduce class sizes in second-year, as well as 920 positions to replace absent teachers and 200 recruitments in the field of mental health. Among the other announced measures, Impact cited a lunch break of at least one hour for high school students, a reduction in specialty combinations, a possible revision of continuous assessment in the first year, and an increase in student scholarships based on inflation starting this year. #Education #Réforme #Lycéens (translated)

The author stated that the Senate is examining today the constitutional revision project aimed at establishing autonomy for Corsica within the Republic. He expressed support for this autonomy, accompanied by safeguards, and estimated that the text would provide the island with new levers, including an autonomy status. #Corse #Autonomie #République #FR #IT (translated)

The Cinghio wrote that Ore11 had accurately reconstructed his thoughts on the rumors. He claimed that since Friday evening he had been talking about a news story prepared to discredit a possible positive opinion of Dr. Nanni on Alberto's review, adding that the "own goals" were increasing. #Garlasco #Garlasco #indiscrezioni #autogol #Garlasco (translated)

The Constitutional Council rejected the demand for the resignation of its president Richard Ferrand, made by the National Rally and the Union of the Rights, who accused him of overstepping his duties by opposing the revision of the Constitution without going through Parliament. #ConseilConstitutionnel #RichardFerrand #RassemblementNational (translated)

Luca Azzola had expressed full agreement with Brindani, who had argued that those fearing a revision were those who had built their careers on Alberto's guilt. The post included the hashtags #mattino5 and #garlasco. #mattino5 #garlasco #giustizia #verità #albertogarlasco (translated)

Poland has proposed to invest 3.8 billion euros to build 'Fort Trump', a permanent military base for 5,000 US soldiers, with the final decision on the project pending the review of the Pentagon's global military presence and approval from the White House in December 2026. #FortTrump #Polonia #Ejercitos (translated)

The office of former judge Baltasar Garzón has filed a nullity incident for the Constitutional Court to reconsider the veto on the votes of thousands of naturalized citizens under the grandchildren's law, arguing the violation of fundamental rights and the need for effective judicial review. #LeyDeNietos #DerechoAlVoto #BaltasarGarzón (translated)

Black PANTHÈR relayed a text signed by Trésor MWAKA, an investigative journalist and member of a communication cell, who questioned why the general director of ARSP, Ted BELESHAYI, was criticizing his predecessor Miguel KASHAL KATEMB instead of delivering results for Congolese entrepreneurs. The text stated that Ted BELESHAYI's remarks during a Space Live event with journalist Stanis BUJAKERA on October 20, 2026, had sparked controversies. According to the text, during the three years and eight months of Miguel KASHAL's management, no salary arrears were reportedly recorded, and the medical expenses of staff were covered. It also disputed the figure of 80 attestations put forward by the current director, claiming that their numbering had increased from 4,100 in January 2023 to 16,800 in February 2026. The number of eligible subcontractors would, according to him, have grown from 4,000 companies in 2023 to over 16,000 in January 2026. The text also credited Miguel KASHAL's management with contributing to the development of the local content law, the revision of the subcontracting law, enhancing market transparency, and combating front persons. It indicated that ARSP had expanded its activities to hydrocarbons, aviation, and telecommunications. In June 2025, Minister Louis WATUM KABAMBA reportedly mentioned nearly 1,400 contracts awarded to Congolese companies, worth over $2 billion, benefiting about 800 entrepreneurs. Trésor MWAKA asked Ted BELESHAYI to publish the names of the companies and data supporting his claim that $20 billion had been paid to ineligible companies. The text also mentioned the VUNGA 1 program, developed with RAWBANK, which planned financing of $200 million for local entrepreneurs, aiming to reach $1 billion in subsequent phases. Finally, he criticized the current director for not prioritizing work, transparency, and the continuity of public service. #RDC #Entrepreneuriat #Transparence (translated)

Treasurer Mwaka contested the statements made by the General Director of the ARSP, Ted BELESHAYI, during a Space Live event hosted by journalist Stanis BUJAKERA on October 20, 2026. He defended the record of his predecessor, Miguel KASHAL KATEMB, and requested Ted BELESHAYI to publish the elements supporting his accusations. According to Mwaka, no salary arrears had been recorded during the 3 years and 8 months of Miguel KASHAL KATEMB's management, and the staff had benefited from medical coverage. He disputed the figure of 80 attestations put forward by the General Director, claiming that their numbering had increased from 4,100 in January 2023 to 16,800 in February 2026. The number of eligible subcontracting companies, according to him, had grown from 4,000 in 2023 to more than 16,000 in January 2026. Mwaka also attributed to the ARSP, under the leadership of Miguel KASHAL KATEMB, a contribution to the development of the local content law, the revision of the subcontracting law, the strengthening of market transparency, and the fight against front companies. He indicated that the institution had expanded its activities to hydrocarbons, aviation, and telecommunications. He recalled that in June 2025, Minister Louis WATUM KABAMBA mentioned nearly 1,400 contracts awarded to Congolese companies, amounting to over 2 billion dollars, benefiting around 800 entrepreneurs. Mwaka asked Ted BELESHAYI to publish the names of the companies involved and the data justifying his claim that 20 billion dollars had been paid to ineligible companies. He also mentioned the VUNGA 1 program, developed with RAWBANK, which he claimed provided 200 million dollars in funding for local entrepreneurs, with the prospect of reaching one billion dollars in subsequent phases. Finally, Mwaka stated that Miguel KASHAL KATEMB did not make his predecessor a public target when he took over the ARSP in 2022. He called on the current General Director to prioritize work, transparency, and continuity of public service for the benefit of Congolese entrepreneurs. #ARSP #Transparence #EntrepreneuriatCongolais (translated)

Médias Citoyens stated that the CGT of France Télévisions demanded the resignation of Laurent Delahousse and the entire weekend 20 Heures team after the broadcast of a report on the violence of October 17. According to the media outlet, the union criticized the lack of comments to contextualize the subject and the airing of an intervention by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which it labeled as an "obvious misunderstanding" and a "gross and dishonest procedure." Médias Citoyens indicated that it had rewatched the sequence and deemed that Mélenchon was discussing the mobilization of young people and its scale, and not the violence. The media concluded that the choice to air his statements in this report could be debated, but was not sufficient to prove that they had been distorted. It accused the CGT of stepping outside its union role by demanding the resignation of journalists and intervening, in its view, in a political battle as the 2027 presidential election approaches. Médias Citoyens has asked the ethics committee of France Télévisions to investigate the matter, particularly the pressures exerted on the editorial staff and their consequences for editorial independence. #CGT #Mélanchon #LibertéÉditoriale (translated)

𝗣𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻–𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 — 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 A burst of false reports surrounding India's protests over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls provides a clear example of how genuine political unrest can become a target for cross-border information manipulation. What remains considerably less certain is the scale and command structure of the campaign. Indian intelligence officials have alleged that more than 5,000 social-media accounts were created in Pakistan within roughly two weeks to exploit protests against the electoral-roll revision and the Election Commission. According to reporting based on Intelligence Bureau sources, the accounts were intended to circulate claims of police violence, casualties and government repression, while encouraging those narratives to travel beyond Delhi into other parts of India. Several of the individual fabrications are independently verifiable. One account using the identity “Anushi Tiwari Indian” and the handle @indiantiwari01 circulated old footage with claims that Delhi Police had opened fire on demonstrators. Different posts attributed multiple deaths to the supposed firing and claimed that opposition leader Rahul Gandhi had been shot or injured. Fact-checkers established that footage used to support such claims came from earlier events, including the 2024 farmers' protests, rather than the demonstrations then taking place in Delhi. Delhi Police publicly identified the account and said it had a history of distributing doctored material, old footage and fabricated narratives. Police subsequently registered four cases concerning alleged misinformation around the protests, while officials said hundreds of posts had been removed. India Today later reported that the Delhi Police Cyber Cell had traced the account's IP address to Pakistan and that the account was subsequently withheld in India. Earlier investigations had also documented the same persona circulating misleading material about Indian political and security events. That evidence establishes a meaningful Pakistan-linked component to the disinformation environment. It does not, however, independently establish a 5,000-account ISI network. The larger allegation comes primarily from Indian intelligence reporting. The Statesman, citing an IANS report and an Intelligence Bureau official, said accounts were being operated from several locations including Bhimber, Rawalakot, Sialkot and Peshawar rather than primarily from Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Officials alleged that operators were supplied with narratives to circulate and instructed to tag users outside India to increase their reach. The same reporting connected the activity to “Operation Ground Wire”, described by Indian sources as an effort to recruit Indian nationals to generate material that could then appear to originate domestically. The concept predates the October protests. A September investigation by CNN-News18 alleged that a platform called Bharat Bytes News had been used to recruit young Indian contributors for politically sensitive assignments, with material subsequently handled from Pakistan. There is an important evidential gap. No public list of the alleged 5,000 accounts has been released. There is no published network graph, platform transparency report, forensic infrastructure analysis or dataset allowing independent researchers to reproduce the Intelligence Bureau's assessment. Nor has public evidence demonstrated that all the accounts described in media reports belong to a single centrally controlled network rather than several clusters, individual propagandists and opportunistic accounts exploiting the same political crisis. The attribution to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is therefore an intelligence claim rather than an independently demonstrated technical attribution. Reporting by Indian outlets repeatedly cites intelligence and police sources, but the underlying evidence has not been released publicly. At the time of this review, no equivalent technical report from Meta, X, Google or another major platform had been identified that confirmed the existence of a 5,000-account ISI-controlled operation. This distinction matters particularly in the India–Pakistan information environment. Both states routinely accuse the other of covert influence and disinformation. Pakistan itself has alleged Indian-backed social-media operations targeting Pakistani institutions, and Islamabad has previously rejected Indian security allegations as politically motivated. That does not invalidate evidence surrounding particular Pakistan-based accounts, but it raises the evidential threshold required for attributing thousands of accounts to a state intelligence service. There is another reason for caution. The information environment around the Indian protests contains misinformation from more than one political direction. Independent fact-checkers have identified AI-generated protest scenes, old videos recaptioned as current events and fabricated images supporting competing narratives. In an earlier case involving the Cockroach Janta Party protests, BOOM and Alt News found that Delhi Police themselves had incorrectly dismissed authentic footage as fake. Government attribution should therefore be treated as evidence to investigate, not as a substitute for forensic verification. No confirmed individual mastermind can presently be named for the October 5,000-account operation. “Anushi Tiwari Indian” is a documented online persona, not a verified real-world identity. Earlier reporting on the broader Ground Wire allegation named individuals said to be Pakistani handlers, including a person identified as Abdullah Shad and a Pakistani military officer described as Lieutenant Colonel Zia. Those identities have not been independently established through publicly available judicial records, financial evidence or a technical attribution report, and there is insufficient evidence to identify either man as responsible for the current 5,000-account campaign. The most defensible conclusion is narrower but still significant. A cluster of false narratives exploiting India's election-related protests existed; several prominent examples have been independently debunked; and at least one central amplifier has been reported by police investigators as Pakistan-based. The much larger claim — that more than 5,000 newly created accounts form a coordinated ISI operation — remains plausible but unproven on the public evidence currently available. For an information operation, that gap between what can be demonstrated and what intelligence authorities say they know is itself part of the story. 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗦 1. The Statesman — “Pakistan creates 5,000 fake social media accounts amid anti-SIR protests: IB official”, 14 October 2026. This is the principal published source for the 5,000-account figure, alleged geographic distribution and Operation Ground Wire connection. The Statesman https://www.thestatesman.com/india/pakistan-creates-5000-fake-social-media-accounts-amid-anti-sir-protests-ib-official-1503650989.html 2. India Today — “ISI-linked accounts post fake Rahul injury video, deaths amid Delhi protests”, 13 October 2026. Documents the fake Rahul Gandhi injury story, false casualty reports and attribution supplied by security sources. India Today https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/anti-cec-protests-isi-linked-pakistan-accounts-spread-false-rahul-gandhi-injury-claim-fake-deaths-amid-delhi-protests-3016235-2026-10-13 3. India Today / PTI — Delhi Police investigation, four FIRs and approximately 500 posts removed, 13 October 2026. India Today https://www.indiatoday.in/cities/delhi/story/delhi-police-files-four-firs-removes-500-posts-over-protest-misinformation-3016760-2026-10-13 4. The New Indian Express — Delhi Police warning concerning @indiantiwari01, 12 October 2026. Includes the police's public identification of the account and its description of previous fabricated narratives. The New Indian Express https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2026/Oct/12/delhi-police-warns-of-action-over-fake-claim-of-firing-at-rahul-gandhi-rally-300-posts-taken-down 5. India Today — “Pakistani Fake News Account Banned on X Over Fabricated Videos on Delhi Protests and Rahul Gandhi”, 15 October 2026. Reports the Cyber Cell finding that the account's IP address traced to Pakistan. India Today https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/pakistani-fake-news-account-banned-on-x-over-fabricated-videos-on-delhi-protests-and-rahul-gandhi-ytvd-3017879-2026-10-15 6. The Quint / WebQoof — independent verification of old footage falsely presented as Delhi Police firing on protesters. The investigated post from @indiantiwari01 had accumulated more than 35,000 views when checked. TheQuint https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/old-video-farmers-protest-falsely-linked-to-cjp-delhi-police-firing-fact-check 7. BOOM — “Old Farmers Protest Video Falsely Shared As Fatalities From October 10 Protest”, 10 October 2026. Independent visual verification of another falsely contextualised protest video. BOOM https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/old-farmers-protest-video-falsely-shared-as-fatalities-from-october-10-protest-32352 8. Newschecker — independent fact-check of the false Delhi Police firing and casualty story, 13 October 2026. Newschecker https://www.newschecker.in/fact-check/old-video-shared-as-delhi-police-firing-at-rahul-gandhi-led-march-against-cec 9. DFRAC — earlier investigation of the “Anushi Tiwari Indian” persona during the September BRICS information environment. This establishes that the account's misleading activity preceded the October protests. DFRAC_ORG https://dfrac.org/en/2026/09/16/brics-summit-disinformation-fake-and-misleading-claims-flood-social-media/ 10. ETGovernment — Maj Gen Rajan Kochhar (Retd), analysis of the earlier Ground Wire allegations, September 2026. Importantly, the article itself stresses that claims concerning named operators, payment mechanisms and Bharat Bytes require independent verification. ETGovernment.com https://government.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/blog/the-evolution-of-proxy-warfare-how-narrative-manipulation-is-transforming-india-pakistan-conflict/134347274 11. BOOM — AI-generated imagery falsely connected to the election-related protests, 12 October 2026. Demonstrates that the broader information disorder was not confined to the specifically Pakistan-attributed examples. BOOM https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/ai-visuals-falsely-shared-as-real-fuel-misinformation-amid-cec-protests-32353 12. Alt News — investigation showing that Delhi Police had incorrectly labelled genuine July protest footage as fake. Relevant to the need for independent verification of official fact-checking claims. Alt News https://www.altnews.in/hindi/baton-with-nails-videos-indeed-from-july-20-protests-delhi-police-pibs-fact-check-incorrect/ 𝗞𝗘𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗦 #Disinformed #Disinformation #Propaganda #InfluenceOperations #India #Pakistan #ISI #ElectionSecurity #ElectionIntegrity #SIR #SpecialIntensiveRevision #DelhiProtests #RahulGandhi #GyaneshKumar #SocialMedia #FakeAccounts #FakeNews #InformationWarfare #CognitiveWarfare #HybridWarfare #OSINT #DigitalPropaganda #ForeignInfluence #InformationOperations #FactChecking #CyberSecurity #OperationGroundWire #PakistanIndia #PoliticalDisinformation #InformationIntegrity

Carrefour's stock has fallen by 14% on the stock market following the unrest in France and the downward revision of growth estimates for 2025, with CEO Alexandre Bompard describing the situation as unprecedented and characterized by high uncertainty. #Carrefour #Borsa #Economia (translated)