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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
My brief analysis of the JRC report “Fractured Reality” www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
linkedin.com
Fractured reality | Andrea Nicolai
#JRC just published “Fractured Reality” an important report and a required reading for anyone in EU involved in information integrity policy. Unfortunately the report has some problematic assumptions....
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/26/q...
diff.wikimedia.org
Quo Vadis, Crawlers? Progress and what’s next on safeguarding our infrastructure
One year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation reported a significant increase in bot traffic to the Wikimedia projects, largely coming from crawlers who extract content to train generative AI systems. We …
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
politico.eu
How Russian spies recruit, pressure and run their informants
A leaked cache of messages and recordings offers rare insight into Moscow’s efforts to infiltrate opposition groups in Europe.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
nbcnews.com
Some of the largest online propaganda campaigns are using 'AI slop,' researchers say
Researchers at Graphika say that online propaganda campaigns have flooded the internet with low-quality, AI-generated content.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
codewall.ai/blog/how-we-... #cybersecurity #AI
codewall.ai
How We Hacked McKinsey's AI Platform
An autonomous AI agent found a SQL injection in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform. What it extracted was worse than we expected.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/the-kremli...
shekhovtsov.substack.com
The Kremlin’s New Contractors
Inside Russia’s Market for Political Warfare
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DEN Design Entrepreneurship Institute @den-institute.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📣 Happy to share that we have contributed to a new report mapping out the actions of the Russian influence operation Storm-1516, active during the recent Moldovan elections. 👉 The report covers activities from June 19 to Sept 25, 2025: alliance4europe.eu/still-marchi... . @anicolai.bsky.social
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Still marching on(line): How R-FBI Targets Moldova’s Elections - Alliance4Europe
The Russian influence operation has extensively targeted the Moldovan elections with fabricated websites and videos spread by influencers.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
www.reuters.com/investigates...
reuters.com
A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home.
Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
theins.press/en/inv/283261
theins.press
The Paris consigliere: Head of French company supplying arms to Ukraine flies to Moscow and manages the Kremlin’s slush fund
Henri Édouard Proglio, a top executive at the French aerospace company Dassault Aviation — which supplies fighter jets and air defense systems to the Ukrainian military — is still doing business in Ru...
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
www.politico.eu/article/ital...
politico.eu
Italy and Greece sound the alarm over Libya. But allies aren’t rushing to help.
Rome and Athens have identified Turkish and Russian involvement in a growing security threat from North Africa.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few,
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
www.politico.eu/article/ukra...
politico.eu
The end of drone supremacy
Offensive drones have had a brief window of domination. But it was only a matter of time before effective counter-drone capabilities emerged.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
theguardian.com
How terrorist groups are leveraging AI to recruit and finance their operations
Counter-terrorism agencies are scrambling to maintain an advantage and thwart attacks as access to digital tools eases
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
politico.eu
France launches criminal investigation into Musk’s X over algorithm manipulation
The probe is based on complaints from a lawmaker and an unnamed senior civil servant.
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 26/06/2025
“Even if the moment for Europe to decouple its security from that of the United States has not yet arrived, the continent’s leaders must prepare for the possibility that it may before long,” write @florencegaub.bsky.social and Stefan Mair. Does Europe need its own nuclear deterrent?
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Europe’s Bad Nuclear Options
And why they may be the only path to security.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Russia Today nonostante il divieto in Europa ricopre di manifesti sulla “verità” in Italia… siamo pieni di Putinversteher in Italia quinte colonne al servizio della Russia
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org
Institute for the Study of War
Iranian leaders are currently calibrating their response to the United States' striking their nuclear program. How they ultimately respond will depend on what they conclude is necessary to preserve th...
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 23/06/2025
Kyiv woke up to horror. A Russian strike obliterated an entire apartment block entrance in Shevchenkivskyi district. Strikes also hit Podilskyi, Holosiivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Solomianskyi and Darnytskyi districts. So far: 6 dead, 19 injured.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 23/06/2025
Donald Trump’s return to the White House is forcing Europe to reckon with a major digital vulnerability: The US holds a kill switch over its internet.
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Trump can pull the plug on the internet, and Europe can’t do anything about it
Trump is back — and with him, the risk that the U.S. could unplug Europe from the digital world.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Unsurprising alignment of US Brussels mission to MAGA narrative… dark times ahead
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
open.spotify.com/episode/1yUA...
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Episode 2. S+T+ARTS: Science, Technology and the Arts ecosystems - A conversation with Veronika Liebl
Ecosystem Exchange · Episode
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
2/ Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov explicitly identified large-scale Russian military reforms as preparations for a future conflict with NATO as Russian Security Council Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev threatened European countries that support Ukraine
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 09/05/2025
The U.K. government has announced its most extensive sanctions package targeting Russia’s “shadow fleet” — a network of ships used to evade sanctions on the sale of Russian oil. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
meduza.io
U.K. targets 100 Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tankers with new sanctions — Meduza
The U.K. government has announced its most extensive sanctions package targeting Russia’s “shadow fleet” — a network of ships used to evade sanctions on the sale of Russian oil.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
www.politico.eu/article/afd-...
politico.eu
The AfD is a right-wing extremist group, German intelligence agency says
The classification opens the door to deeper surveillance — and reignites a debate over whether the far-right party should be banned.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 28/04/2025
Proud to see @benmshultz.com / @americansunlight.org's work referenced in this excellent article from @anujchopra.bsky.social detailing the attacks on the counter-disinfo space in Trump's first 100 days www.france24.com/en/live-news...
france24.com
US anti-disinformation guardrails fall in Trump's first 100 days
From slashed federal funding for disinformation research to the closure of a key agency combating foreign influence operations, the United States has dismantled vital guardrails against falsehoods wit...
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/newsguar...
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Commentary: Russia Used to Deny Interfering. Now it’s Celebrating its Successes.
With fewer guardrails and more reach, Moscow openly cheers its disinformation wins.
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Ander Bruckestand @anderbruckes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🧵 In Italia sta succedendo qualcosa di molto grave per la sicurezza nazionale: le associazioni filorusse stanno infatti organizzando dei censimenti di "strutture legate alla NATO", invitando la popolazione ad effettuare azioni di spionaggio e sabotaggio. 1/➡️
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Three convictions, three guilty pleas. Inside the “minions” spy cell and Russia’s push to develop espionage freelancers. warontherocks.com/2025/04/puti...
warontherocks.com
Putin’s Spies for Hire: What the U.K.’s Biggest Espionage Trial Revealed about Kremlin Tactics in Wartime Europe - War on the Rocks
In early 2023, in the sleepy English seaside town of Great Yarmouth, a covert operation was quietly revving into gear. Second-hand Chryslers and a
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 09/04/2025
⚡️Over 160 Chinese nationals serve in Russian army, leaked documents allege. At least 163 Chinese nationals are serving in Russia's Armed Forces as of early April, according to Ukrainian intelligence documents seen by the Kyiv Independent on April 9.
kyivindependent.com
Over 160 Chinese nationals serve in Russian army, leaked documents allege
The documents, obtained by the Kyiv Independent, list the names, personal data, place of service and position in the Russian army of Chinese nationals.
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Yoda @politicaperjedi.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Null'altro da aggiungere.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The Kremlin continues to demonstrate its refusal to substantively engage with the United States on proposed ceasefire agreements and future peace negotiations in Ukraine. ⬇️ isw.pub/UkrWar040825
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 07/04/2025
Europeans are waking up to their many dependencies on America - and one of those is the payment infrastructure we use every day to make purchases online and in person. ECB chief Christine Lagarde says this needs to be urgently changed. But can a common European payment system be quickly developed?
youtu.be
Why are Europeans dependent on American companies to make payments?
YouTube video by Dave Keating
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Trump is Recycling the Kremlin Playbook In Order to Take Over Greenland By @mortenhammeken.bsky.social and Yours Truly: bylinetimes.com/2025/04/07/t...
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'Trump is Recycling the Kremlin Playbook In Order to Take Over Greenland'
The 'many similarities' between the Trump administration and Putin's autocratic regime
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 06/04/2025
🇬🇧 Russian spy sensors found in UK waters, posing a potential national security threat, The Telegraph. Several devices washed ashore and were sent for examination. Russia may have used them to gather intel on the UK’s Vanguard-class nuclear submarines. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...
telegraph.co.uk
Russian spy sensors found hidden in UK waters
The devices are designed to spy on Britain’s nuclear submarines and have been identified by the Army as a potential national security threat
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
politico.eu
Europe’s new war with Russia: Deep sea sabotage
Suspicious Russian tankers keep slashing Europe’s internet and power cables. It’s not an act of war … but someday it might be.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting. Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
The post by Marco Rubio
Met with Danish Foreign Minister Rasmussen in Brussels today to talk about the defense priorities shared by our two nations. We discussed the importance of increasing burden sharing within NATO and addressing threats to the Alliance.
A post by Lars Løkke Rasmussen

Honest and direct meeting with @SecRubio yesterday. I made it crystal clear that claims and statements about annexing Greenland are not only unacceptable and disrespectful. They amount to a violation of international law.
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
After half the world is beating them up for the way they calculated the duties the US trade department published this explanation saying that two correction factors were applied, one worth 1/4 and one worth 4 ... 1/4*4=1 😂 ... it does not end well unfortunately
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
1/ A Russian air base is seeking urgent donations after its last remaining forklift broke down under the strain of loading 1500 kg bombs onto aircraft. The air base has already had to resort to transporting bombs using bicycles for want of other means of transportation. ⬇️
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Decodïng Trolls @decodingtrolls.net · 14/02/2025
⚡️How to sell skyscrapers you don’t own. Ukraine is a skyscraper Druidey Don can’t sell. Paul Manafort jailed ex-Trump campaign manager now advises Don Disinfolklore on how to sell Ukraine down the river. Thing is: 1/4
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 20/03/2025
this is Kropyvnytskyi, a beautiful European city of 220,000, that russian culture literally set on fire overnight in a genocidal rage attack. russian drones bombed residential areas while peaceful locals slept in their beds at home
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🚨NEW REPORT: first forensic confirmation of #Paragon mercenary spyware infections in #Italy... Known targets: Activists & journalists. We also found deployments around the world. Including ... #Canada? And a lot more... Thread on our @citizenlab.ca investigation 1/ citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations
By Bill Marczak, John Scott-Railton, Kate Robertson, Astrid Perry, Rebekah Brown, Bahr Abdul Razzak, Siena Anstis, and Ron Deibert March 19, 2025 
Clicca qui per leggere un riassunto del report in italiano.

Key Findings
Introducing Paragon Solutions. Paragon Solutions was founded in Israel in 2019 and sells spyware called Graphite. The company differentiates itself by claiming it has safeguards to prevent the kinds of spyware abuses that NSO Group and other vendors are notorious for.
Infrastructure Analysis of Paragon Spyware. Based on a tip from a collaborator, we mapped out server infrastructure that we attribute to Paragon’s Graphite spyware tool. We identified a subset of suspected Paragon deployments, including in Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore. 
Identifying a Possible Canadian Paragon Customer. Our investigation surfaced potential links between Paragon Solutions and the Canadian Ontario Provincial Police, and found evidence of a growing ecosystem of spyware capability among Ontario-based police services.
Helping WhatsApp Catch a Zero-Click. We shared our analysis of Paragon’s infrastructure with Meta, who told us that the details were pivotal to their ongoing investigation into Paragon. WhatsApp discovered and mitigated an active Paragon zero-click exploit, and later notified over 90 individuals who it believed were targeted, including civil society members in Italy.

Please drop me a reply or note letting me know if this alt text helps you.Android Forensic Analysis: Italian Cluster. We forensically analyzed multiple Android phones belonging to Paragon targets in Italy (an acknowledged Paragon user) who were notified by WhatsApp. We found clear indications that spyware had been loaded into WhatsApp, as well as other apps on their devices. 
A Related Case of iPhone Spyware in Italy. We analyzed the iPhone of an individual who worked closely with confirmed Android Paragon targets. This person received an Apple threat notification in November 2024, but no WhatsApp notification. Our analysis showed an attempt to infect the device with novel spyware in June 2024. We shared details with Apple, who confirmed they had patched the attack in iOS 18.
Other Surveillance Tech Deployed Against The Same Italian Cluster. We also note 2024 warnings sent by Meta to several individuals in the same organizational cluster, including a Paragon victim, suggesting the need for further scrutiny into other surveillance technology deployed against these individuals.

Please drop me a note /reply letting me know if this alt text helps you.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
JD Vance tried to teach Europe a lesson about freedom of speech but the US just denied entry to a French researcher because he had expressed his disagreement with the Trump administration. Biggest hypocrites and cowards out there. Don’t try to teach Europe anything! USA = russia
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
www.newsguardtech.com/special-repo...
newsguardtech.com
A Well-funded Moscow-based Global ‘News’ Network has Infected Western Artificial Intelligence Tools Worldwide with Russian Propaganda
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 17/03/2025
The US military has cared about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War – for good reason
theconversation.com
The US military has cared about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War – for good reason
During the Cold War, the US poured support into Arctic military outposts and climate research amid fears of a Russian invasion. Climate change is still on the military’s radar as a threat multiplier.
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Decodïng Trolls @decodingtrolls.net · 14/03/2025
⚡️Origin of Disinfolklore Disinfolklore arose from my discovery in 2016 that Russia was using Jung's theory of Archetypes to manipulate the moods/attitudes/motivations/intentions of consumers of its combat propaganda… www.disinfolklore.net/p/rearchetyp...
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anicolai.bsky.social @anicolai.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
www.linkedin.com/posts/afive_...
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National Endowment for Democracy Files Lawsuit Seeking Access to… | Adam Fivenson
Washington, D.C., March 5, 2025 – Today the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) filed a lawsuit in United States District Court against Executive Branch…
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
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