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The truly dumbest "argument." On one hand, you can look at Japanese and German cities in 1945 and, if you are not a right-wing extremist revisionist, you will hardly come to the conclusion that genocide was committed against Germany and Japan. On the other hand, the destruction is so extensive, while at the same time the population in the Gaza Strip has grown and the number of deaths, including those who died of natural causes (and terrorists), is about 4% of the population. One can hardly inflict such destruction while killing twenty times fewer people proportionally if one does not take human lives into account. This does not exclude the possibility that this destruction can be considered a war crime, so-called domicide. It also does not rule out other war crimes (which are practically guaranteed due to the duration of the fighting, the hatred over the cause of the war's outbreak, and the number of combatants). But if you declare destruction as genocide, then the word is worth nothing anymore. (translated)

Caro @marcotravaglio, ogni volta che mi dico che più in basso di un certo livello tu non possa andare, ti presenti con una ruspa e cominci a scavare. Decidendo di sputare sulla Resistenza di ieri insultando quella di oggi, hai superato di nuovo una linea rossa, scegliendo la strada di un delirio revisionista, che somiglia tanto - diciamo anche troppo - alle manipolazioni che in Russia hanno portato a riscrivere la storia sui libri di testo, a mandare al macero tutti i testi politicamente non allineati, a mettere sotto controllo i copioni delle opere teatrali e dei film, perché celebrino ciò che serve al regime e non la verità. Ti piaccia o no, quella ucraina è Resistenza contro un invasore, una resistenza armata come la fu la nostra, con armi fornite anche da paesi stranieri come inglesi e americani fecero con i nostri eroici partigiani, i quali no, non avrebbero fatto un granché solo con pistole e fucili sottratti ai tedeschi. Puoi anche raccontare ai beoti che si bevono ogni tua menzogna che quella tra Russia e Ucraina è null'altro che una guerra tra Stati, ma chiunque non sia indottrinato dalla tua propaganda ha ancora ben impresse nella mente le scene di donne e bambini intenti a costruire molotov negli scantinati o in mezzo alle strade coperte di neve per respingere l'invasione appena iniziata, ma anche le storie di avvocati, scrittori, commercialisti e operai ritrovatisi disciplinatamente in fila fuori dai centri di reclutamento senza aver mai preso in mano un'arma fino ad allora, e ancora anziani e ragazzi protestare in strada nelle zone occupate cercando di fermare i carri armati russi a mani nude. Disconoscere ignobilmente il coraggio ed il sacrificio di un popolo intero che dal primo giorno cerca di salvare le proprie città, le proprie famiglie e delle libertà che il suo invasore vorrebbe sottrargli solo perché non le ha mai avute, dice del tuo approccio morale a questa guerra persino più di quanto il tuo sorrisetto saccente non faccia. In Ucraina non ci sono dubbi e non ci sono mai stati, nonostante tu a giorni alterni continui a copiare ed incollare la propaganda russa sulle volontà delle popolazioni russofone. Fin dal 2014 i sondaggi erano molto chiari: l'annessione alla Russia era chiesta solo da un quarto della popolazione. Il successivo sondaggio lo fecero i piedi e le ruote dei mezzi utilizzati per le evacuazioni: a guerra in Donbas iniziata, 1,5 milioni di ucraini fuggirono verso l'Ucraina e solo in 200.000 si diressero in Russia chiedendo la cittadinanza, perché sapevano tutti chi era l'aggressore. L'anno precedente, in un altro sondaggio, una percentuale simile di sudtirolesi si era espresso a favore dell'annessione all'Austria, ma forse a te non è chiaro quale differenza ci sia tra l'avere come vicino un paese dell'odiata Europa e la pacifica Russia. Non perderò tempo a confutare per l'ennesima volta le tue cazzate di propaganda su Maidan e su presunti complotti della NATO, mi limito a postare una foto per mostrarti quello che secondo me un giornalista dovrebbe fare: ascoltare. Io ho ascoltato Mustafa Nayyem, dal cui post su Facebook del 21 novembre 2013 le proteste a Maidan sono effettivamente nate. Tu avresti potuto almeno ascoltare Carlo Smuraglia e Nello Sbracalari, due che la resistenza l'hanno fatta di persona, che non hanno mai avuto dubbio nel definire Resistenza quella ucraina e che oggi si vergognerebbero profondamente nel leggere su un giornale italiano, di un paese liberato dalla dittatura anche grazie al sacrificio di molti nostri connazionali, una quotidiana apologia di un autocrate imperialista, invasore e oppressore. Come italiano, come giornalista e come iscritto alla @FiapItalia provo per te infinita vergogna. #Resistenza #Ucraina #Libertà

The Ghosts of Zaolzie – how a cyberattack tried to manufacture a conflict between Poland and Czechia At around 5pm on 16 August 2026, an alarming article appeared on the website of Radio PiK, a genuine Polish regional broadcaster. Its headline claimed that Poland was preparing to seize Czech territory and that the Czech Foreign Ministry had received a document outlining Warsaw's demands. Radio PiK had published no such story. An attacker had compromised an employee's credentials, gained access to the station's content management system and replaced a legitimate article with fabricated material. The newsroom quickly removed it and informed the authorities. But the intrusion was only one element of a much larger operation. Investigators subsequently uncovered forged diplomatic documents, accounts impersonating Polish and Czech officials, a cloned Czech news site, AI-generated material, a fictitious local activist and advertising for a demonstration that apparently did not exist. Together, these elements attempted to manufacture the appearance of a new territorial conflict between Poland and Czechia over Zaolzie. A false crisis built around a real territorial issue The operation worked because it did not start entirely with fiction. Poland and Czechia do have an unresolved technical issue concerning approximately 368.44 hectares of territory, originating in post-war changes to the Polish-Czechoslovak border. It is commonly described as the Czech “territorial debt” to Poland. But this is not a Polish claim to Zaolzie and there is no evidence that Warsaw is seeking to annex Czech territory. The operation fused this real issue with a much more powerful historical memory. Zaolzie – the part of Cieszyn Silesia west of the Olza River – was disputed by Poland and Czechoslovakia after the First World War. In 1938, during the crisis created by the Munich Agreement, Poland seized the territory from Czechoslovakia. The manipulation therefore followed a simple logic: a real territorial debt became an alleged Polish territorial demand, which was then transformed into a supposed attempt to reclaim Zaolzie. Fake accounts impersonating Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Artur Harazim and Czech ambassador Břetislav Dančák helped reinforce the story. Fabricated diplomatic documents circulated alongside them. One early version referred incorrectly to 638.44 hectares; the fake Harazim account then “corrected” the number to the genuine figure of 368.44 hectares. It was an effective form of reverse fact-checking: correcting one false detail could make the larger fabrication appear authentic. Fake media – and one real newsroom The operators also created a website designed to resemble Czech public broadcaster iRozhlas. It published material supporting the same narrative, including claims that Czech residents near the border were becoming concerned about Polish intentions. The result was a manufactured information loop. Forged documents could support fake media reports; impersonated officials could comment on those reports; social-media accounts could then cite both as confirmation. But the Radio PiK hack added something much more valuable: the credibility of a real media organisation. Instead of merely cloning a newsroom, the attackers briefly inserted their fabrication into an authentic one. A familiar domain, logo and established broadcaster could therefore appear to confirm a story manufactured elsewhere. The cyberattack was not simply an accompanying technical incident. It was part of the information operation itself – a way of manufacturing credibility for false information. From a synthetic activist to a real demonstration The operation then attempted to move from the digital world into the physical one. A Facebook account under the name “Adam Sikora” promoted a demonstration in the Czech border city of Třinec under slogans including “Cieszyn Silesia is Czech” and “Here we live, here we stay”. Paid Facebook advertising was reportedly used to promote the event. Yet Třinec authorities said no demonstration had been properly notified. Promotional material used the logo of the Czech KOVO trade union, which denied any involvement. Investigators also identified indications that Sikora's profile photograph and other imagery were AI-generated. The persona even advertised a supposed house for sale in the border region, reinforcing the impression that frightened residents wanted to leave because of Polish territorial ambitions. The property could not be verified and its images also showed signs of artificial generation. This reveals the architecture of the operation: forged document → fake official → cloned media → compromised real media → synthetic local activist → advertised protest → appearance of social tension. The final stage is particularly significant. Had real people attended the demonstration, photographs of an authentic crowd could potentially have been presented as evidence that Czech citizens genuinely feared Polish territorial ambitions. A fabricated online conflict could therefore have begun generating real-world evidence of its own existence. Why Zaolzie? Historical grievances are valuable material for influence operations because the underlying facts are real. Poland and Czechoslovakia genuinely disputed Cieszyn Silesia. Poland genuinely occupied Zaolzie in 1938. A Polish minority genuinely lives in Czechia. And the 368.44-hectare territorial issue genuinely exists. The operator did not need to invent that history. It only needed to suggest that the history was repeating itself. PISM assessed that the operation sought to revive the image of Poland as a revisionist state willing to challenge European borders. Such a narrative could serve a broader purpose: damaging Polish-Czech relations, weakening confidence between NATO and EU allies and portraying Central Europe as a region where historical territorial conflicts remain unresolved. Russia is the leading attribution – but not a proven one The attribution requires more caution than the mechanics of the operation. PISM assessed Russia as the most likely perpetrator, while NASK identified similarities between the campaign and previously observed Russian influence methods. Russian-linked information infrastructure had also shown earlier interest in the Polish-Czech territorial issue. The techniques are familiar: cloned media, forged documents, impersonated officials, synthetic identities, historical grievances and the combination of cyber intrusion with information manipulation. But these indicators are not the same as definitive attribution. As of mid-September 2026, no publicly disclosed forensic evidence had conclusively connected the Radio PiK compromise, fake domains, accounts and financing to a specific Russian intelligence service, government organisation or contractor. Russia can therefore reasonably be described as the leading analytical attribution, but claims that the operation was definitively conducted by the GRU or another named Russian structure go beyond the publicly available evidence. The operation failed. The model remains important The campaign did not create a Polish-Czech diplomatic crisis. Both governments rejected the narrative, the fictitious protest was exposed, journalists reconstructed much of the operation and Radio PiK detected the intrusion quickly. Its observable impact appears to have been limited. But Zaolzie illustrates a broader evolution in information warfare. Modern operations do not have to rely on a single viral fake. They can construct an entire artificial information environment in which different elements appear to confirm one another. A forged document creates the claim. A fake diplomat authenticates it. A cloned newsroom reports it. A hacked real newsroom lends it credibility. An AI-generated citizen reacts to it. Advertising creates the appearance of a grassroots movement. And if real people eventually respond, fiction begins producing genuine events. The objective is no longer simply to persuade people that something happened. It is to create the conditions in which something real starts happening because enough people believed that it did. Sources: Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) https://pism.pl/publikacje/dezinformacja-o-relacjach-polsko-czeskich Euronews Polska — Radio PiK cyberattack https://pl.euronews.com/2026/08/20/polska-planuje-zajecie-terytorium-czech-wlamali-sie-na-strone-radia-i-opublikowali-falszyw Demagog https://demagog.org.pl/na-biezaco/skoordynowana-operacja-uderza-w-polsko-czeskie-relacje-czy-stoi-za-nia-rosja/ Robert Lansing Institute https://lansinginstitute.org/2026/08/27/zaolzie-as-an-instrument-of-influence-an-attempt-to-revive-a-polish-czech-territorial-conflict/ Institute for European Security Studies (IESS) https://www.iess.org.ua/analytics/ghosts-of-zaolzie iDNES.cz https://www.idnes.cz/ostrava/zpravy/tesinsko-kampan-lzi-demonstrace-trinec-primatorka-palkovska.A260826_963356_ostrava-zpravy_jog Radio Zachód / PAP https://zachod.pl/1539751/niedzielny-atak-hakerski-na-radio-pik-redaktor-naczelny-podjelismy-niezwloczne-dzialania/ Euronews — territorial debt / NASK assessment https://de.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/21/polen-plant-besetzung-tschechischen-gebiets-fake-news TVP World https://tvpworld.com/95036191/-warsaw-warns-against-division-amid-czech-border-disinformation Keywords: #DISINFORMED #Episode5 #GhostsOfZaolzie #Zaolzie #Poland #Czechia #CieszynSilesia #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #Cyberattack #CyberSecurity #HybridWarfare #FakeNews #MediaImpersonation #FakeMedia #ForgedDocuments #DigitalImpersonation #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Deepfakes #SyntheticMedia #Astroturfing #RussianInfluence #Propaganda #OSINT #NATO #CentralEurope #MediaManipulation #WRLD

Voy a recordar otro Auto de medida cautelar de la misma sala: Paralizó la exhumación de los restos de Franco, ojo: “Jefe del Estado del 1-O 1936 al 20N 1975”‼️ El revisionismo que abona la ilegitimidad de la República-y las condenas por rebelión-. Contra la Memoria Democrática. https://t.co/1DWj2Sdp8z #MemoriaDemocrática #Revisionismo #Franco

EU/EEAS Spokesperson Statement on the death of Ratko Mladić: ”Any glorification of war criminals, genocide denial and revisionism contradict the most fundamental European values and have no place in the EU or in EU candidate countries. Reconciliation and good neighbourly #Mladić #WarCrimes #EuropeanValues #EU #BA #RS #ME #XK

"Direttore, siamo la squadra con meno rigori contro più rigori a favore meno rossi contro meno revisioni contro tifoso Butti che rompe in Lega tifoso Viglione che rompe in FIGC tifoso Viola che copre in Procura tifoso Chinè che dorme mandiamo un avviso" "Subito Presidente 👅" https://t.co/WQIqj7l7dw #calcio #sipario #società

Det afgørende spørgsmål er ikke, om ‘Ramadan i København’ bør fjernes fra Højskolesangbogen. Jeg holder ikke af politisk revisionisme eller cancel culture. Det afgørende spørgsmål er derimod, hvorfor den kom ind. #Ramadan #København #Kulturdebat

2/ There's real irony here. The external shock — Russia's invasion of Ukraine — made Finland cling more tightly to a status quo that is now eroding from within, as the US joins the ranks of revisionist powers and a rift opens in the "global west." #Finland #UkraineWar #GlobalWest #FI #RU #UA #US

Russland hat die japanische Kritik am Besuch von Wladimir Putin auf den umstrittenen Kurilen als politisch unangemessen und revisionistisch zurückgewiesen, während Japan den Besuch als inakzeptabel bezeichnet und auf seine historischen und völkerrechtlichen Ansprüche pocht. #Kurilen #Putin #Japan

Combater a apologia do fascismo exige ação política, educação crítica, mobilização social e defesa firme dos valores democráticos. 🧠 1. Educação histórica e crítica - Ensinar o que foi o fascismo: regimes como os de Mussolini e Hitler devem ser estudados com profundidade, destacando seus métodos autoritários, repressivos e genocidas. - Desconstruir mitos e revisionismos: combater narrativas que romantizam ou relativizam crimes fascistas é essencial para evitar sua banalização. - Promover cultura democrática: incentivar o pensamento crítico, o respeito à diversidade e a valorização dos direitos humanos desde a escola. 📢 2. Ação política e institucional - Legislação clara contra apologia ao fascismo: fortalecer leis que punem incitação ao ódio, símbolos fascistas e discursos antidemocráticos. - Fiscalização e responsabilização: exigir que autoridades tomem medidas contra grupos que promovem o fascismo, inclusive nas redes sociais. - Defesa das instituições democráticas: proteger o funcionamento livre do parlamento, do judiciário e da imprensa contra ataques autoritários. 🤝 3. Mobilização social e cultural - Organizar frentes amplas antifascistas: unir partidos, movimentos sociais, sindicatos e intelectuais em torno da defesa da democracia. - Criar espaços de resistência cultural: livros como Como Travar o Fascismo, de Paul Mason, e Fascismo – História e Teoria, de David Renton, ajudam a formar consciência crítica. - Denunciar publicamente manifestações fascistas: não normalizar discursos de ódio, mesmo quando travestidos de “opinião” ou “liberdade de expressão”. 🧩 4. Combater o ressentimento e o medo - Enfrentar as causas sociais do fascismo: desemprego, desigualdade e insegurança são terreno fértil para discursos autoritários. - Promover políticas públicas inclusivas: garantir acesso à educação, saúde, moradia e cultura reduz a adesão a soluções simplistas e violentas.

Spotify introduce una nuova etichetta per gli artisti generati tramite intelligenza artificiale, denominata AI Personas, che a partire dalla metà di settembre garantirà maggiore trasparenza agli ascoltatori escludendo la musica AI dalle raccomandazioni personalizzate e editoriali, e permettendo verifiche del profilo attraverso sia auto-dichiarazioni che revisioni umane. #IntelligenzaArtificiale #Spotify #AIPersonas

Il PIL italiano è soggetto a revisioni frequenti e spesso positive da parte dell'Istat, mentre le istituzioni internazionali come l'Ocse e il Fmi faticano ad aggiornare le loro previsioni in modo tempestivo, creando confusione e falsi allarmi riguardo la salute economica del Paese. #PIL #previsioni #revisioni

Hanno deriso Cristiano Ronaldo ma mi sembra che contro la Spagna tutti i fenomeni del Mondiale siano usciti con le orecchie abbassate e non abbiano visto mezza volta la palla. E sia chiaro: per me Messi è un Genio del Calcio, Mbappé meriterebbe almeno un pallone d’oro, Olise è devastante ma il revisionismo vergognoso sulla sua carriera che ha subito CR7 in questo mondiale è stato insensato e imbarazzante. Lui era e resterà per sempre nell’Olimpo di chi ha scritto la Storia di questo Sport. #Calcio #Messi #CR7

l resto de España, priorizaron otros temas y dejaron que se asentaran en la opinión pública las afirmaciones de los revisionistas, a menudo sin ser cuestionadas”. 90 let po začátku španělské občanské války se neofranquistická propaganda dostává na přední strany politiky a kultury, čímž normalizuje své úvahy o historických událostech a zpochybňuje úlohu španělské republiky a franquismské represivní historie, přičemž čelí slabé opozici od tradičních historiků. #Revisionismo #MemoriaHistórica #Franquismo

Vox recupera a un antiguo candidato que renunció tras desvelarse su revisionismo sobre el Holocausto. El poso nazi de la ultraderecha que apoya a Israel. https://t.co/jnPzdsescU #Vox #Holocausto #Ultraderecha #IL

L'autore riflette sulla triste esperienza di Sigfrido Ranucci e di altre figure come funzionari pubblici e giornalisti scomodi, vittime di vendetta e narcisismo, evidenziando la loro lotta per la verità in un contesto di sistematica delegittimazione e revisionismo storico. #GiornalismoDInchiesta #SigfridoRanucci #Mafia

Die Anne-Frank-Bildungsstätte warnt vor einem alarmierenden Anstieg von Antisemitismus in sozialen Medien, wo revisionistische und antisemitische Narrative immer präsenter werden, während der diesjährige Anne-Frank-Tag mit einem Rekord von über 126.000 teilnehmenden Schülern stattfand, um das Bewusstsein für die Geschichte und die Gefahren von Antisemitismus zu schärfen. #Antisemitismus #AnneFrank #SozialeMedien

Článek analyzuje současnou politickou situaci ve Španělsku a zdůrazňuje, jak slabost vlády Pedra Sáncheze, závislost na katalánských a baskických nezávislých stranách a historický revisionismus ohrožují ducha demokratické tranzice z roku 1978, přičemž diskutuje i o roli José Luise Zapatéra a dopadu korupčních skandálů. #Espanha #PedroSánchez #Corrupção