Bartolomeo was a river resort in #Dnipro #Ukraine
Was, because a few hours ago #Shahed drones from #Russia destroyed it
This is what #Russian #imperialism is about
They aren't aiming for #military facilities. They want to kill a society
It's a fucking resort. Zero reason for it to be targeted. Except the precious feelings of #ethnofascist assholes hellbent on sadism
Nevertheless, look for Russian #disinfo tomorrow that "heroic fighters" destroyed a #NATO warship
Kristi Noem Records Chilling Video In Front Of Alien Enemies Act Detainees
> ProFA are SO SCUMMY!
#canicidal #ilsa #disinfo #ahotd
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/kristi-noem-records-chilling-video-in-front-of-alien-enemies-act-detainees
@signalapp It's not #disinfo when one points out that you demand #PII aka. #PhoneNumbers from Users and that is literally a architectural vulnerability, alongside your #proprietary & #Centralized #Infrastructure.
Not to mention the lack of @torproject / #Tor support with an #OnionService or the willingness to fulfill #cyberfacist "Embargoes" or shilling a #Shitcoin #Scam named #MobileCoin!
And don't get me started on the #cyberfacism that is #CloudAct.
I may nit have allvthe.evidence yet, but #Signal stenches like #ANØM: #Honeypot-esque!
Austria's DSN domestic intelligence agency said on Monday it had uncovered an extensive Russian disinformation campaign centred around a Bulgarian national accused of spying and disseminating false information about Ukraine
.. extensive disinformation campaign for German-speaking countries focusing on Austria. The campaign, it said, included "activities in the media landscape" and offline activity that included graffiti and stickers
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austria-uncovers-russian-disinformation-campaign-security-service-says-2025-03-24/
#nafo #disinfo #austria #deutsch
Consider a #fediblock for pubeurope.com:
- avoids transparency on who it hosts
- avoids transparency on who hosts it
- otherwise plain standard setup, no customization or purpose
- the mastodon instance and its accounts/websites are all configured _very_ similarly, suggesting that they're all operated by the same organization
- the websites, omg: lots of useless fluff, with some fake news thrown into the mix
- none of these sites indicate who operates them
My verdict: a #disinfo outlet.
@fuchsiii @taylorlorenz @GreenSkyOverMe the problen is that people share said #Disinfo not in spite BUT BECAUSE it is specifically called out as #disinformation!
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/myth-vs-reality-trends-retail-theft
“But an analysis by researcher Jeff Asher showed that, according to the limited data available, the stores Target closed in Portland and Seattle had less crime than stores that were not closing.”
Local media outlets (and particularly the one known for training up future police spokespeople) shared flagrant & harmful corporate disinformation about “organized retail theft”, and very few of them ever corrected the record. Not only is this hugely fucking irritating, this dishonest “law and order” fearmongering also 100% contributed to the political climate which enabled the current fascist takeover of the US govt.
#KGW #Portland #PDX #Oregon #orpol #disinformation #disinfo #classwar #oligarchy #farright #fascism #USpol #maga #coup #ElonMusk #nathanVasquez https://pnw.zone/@RhysInPDX/111133384925778358
@claesdevreese the big problem is that @Bundesregierung and @AuswaertigesAmt don't give a shit, otherwise they'd go hard against said #Disinfo Sites for #ElectionInterference and comitting #HybridWarfare as well as acting on behalf of foreign agents!
You look on the #USA with disdain
And you should
But as an #American drowning in this shit we are a warning for you
It's not all #Kremlin #disinfo bots, it is the #bigotry in our countries
I am not shifting blame
But:
#Domestic and #geopolitical #troll farm can establish a power dynamic that amplifies #hate, and it matters
Fight it
Better than we did
"#Putin’s #disinformation networks flood #socialmedia in bid to skew #German #election"
don't underestimate how good our new malefactors of great crypto wealth are at the PR game... they have a wealth of knowledge and experience because crypto, in the end, is nothing but a PR game.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/ice-us-immigration-deportations-google
the #MAGAts have discovered that public government databases are public and are having a field day pawing through data they don't understand to accuse people they don't know of committing crimes they also don't understand (specifically "money laundering" is the new bogeyman).
here's #BillAckman declaring it obviously corrupt that political offices subscribe to a political news service via money from #USAID (except, of course, the data he's looking at makes it extremely clear the money is not from USAID).
it's very clear where this is going: #ElonMusk and co. are going to get ahold of #CIA and #FBI internal records and use them to gin up outrage akin to the #TwitterFiles nonsense and then use that as an excuse to kill the agencies.
"Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
p.s. wait til they find out how much money the government spends on subscriptions to newspapers...
@eloquence in fact the only think that the alleged whistleblower says that doesn't match the pretty well fleshed out fact pattern i've already confirmed is the disinfo stuff. Mario Nawfal, at least, doesn't spread blatant #disinfo. But his account is like, the huge one. Seems highly likely there's smaller accounts doing far more dastardly things. I mean, for one thing all the bots that boost Mario are constantly boosting crypto scams.
@eloquence yeah we're on the same page. i think i'm also conflating Eliza (the bot) with #ElizaOS (which IIRC was just released to the public a few weeks ago - which fits the pattern better than Eliza).
https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113921141658152549
FWIW though Saudi Arabia's bot/sock puppet network is well documented at this point. I've also spoken to reporters at The Times Of Israel who've explained #Netanyahu's vast bot network to me, so I don't doubt anything about letting foreign governments run influence operations. I mean we know Elon eliminated the entire Twitter staff so at a minimum no one was guarding the hen house and I was talking to the Times of Israel and BBC about this like back in early 2023.
Alleged #X whistleblower wrote a thing about #Elon's election manipulation that sounds mostly plausible to me (see replies)
> "One of the most disturbing things we did was create thousands of fake accounts using advanced #AI systems called #Grok and #Eliza. These accounts looked completely real and pushed political messages that spread like wildfire. Havn't you noticed they all disappeared? Like magic"
> "We knowingly allowed foreign governments to manipulate the platform. State-backed groups from #Israel, #Iran, and #Russia were running their own influence campaigns"
> #ElonMusk himself was deeply involved in these decisions, often joking about being "Black Hat #MAGA."
> "What started as US #electioninterference has now spread to other countries. We're doing the same thing in #Germany and other #European nations. The damage we've done is immeasurable, and I don't know if it can ever be fixed"
https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election
@timo21 the style of tooting - weird right wing slanted stuff but with a heady mix of random unimportant news from random towns in bumfuck iowa + a smattering of celeb goss *really* reminds me of Mario Nawfal's twitter account who i'm pretty sure is an elon musk creation (Mario's a crypto grifter who came out of nowhere to have 1,000,000 followers and be a pretend newscaster when FTX collapsed and Elon Musk flew in to appear on the dumbest 48 hour live stream to ever be streamed).
Nawfal is also in deep with #JustinSun; they pump memecoins together on #SunPump and do Twitter spaces together about tokens.
Poll: Who is this half Japanese / half English Mastodon propaganda bot with 10 followers tooting its little heart out for?
1. Vladimir Putin
2. Xi Jinping
3. Iran
4. Saudi Arabia
5. Elon Musk
6. Other (explain)
(Personally it reminds me a lot of #MarioNawfal's feed)
