iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 03/10/2026

🇬🇧🕵️🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 I'll be at homegrown enterprise @osint-community.bsky.social's inaugural Global OSINT Conference in London all day MON OCT/05. If you'll be there too, and especially if you're visiting from abroad, ping/find me and let's talk. #OSINT #UK #London

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧵 Days 13 and 14 of Matryoshka's campaign targeting the 2026 US midterms were focused on 18 specific Democratic Senate candidates. Many of these races have almost zero national media attention. So why them? What do they have in common?

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 02/10/2026

(and Discovery Institute alum)

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026

Bellingcat is a non-profit and the ability to carry out our work is dependent on the kind support of individual donors. If you would like to support our work, you can do so here: www.bellingcat.com/donate

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Every membership directly supports our investigations and global community work.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What was the moment you realised you had no grasp of the world anymore? This did it for me www.ft.com/content/f109...

Many creators seek to ride more shortlived waves of internet popularity. Shira
Jeczmien, founder of viral marketing agency Screenshot Media, points to a brief trend of people eating whole cucumbers that led to shortages of the vegetable in supermarkets.

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 01/10/2026

«Crucially, unlike the copy-paste botnets of the last decade, these swarms can produce context-aware, original content and vary their behaviour precisely to defeat existing repetition-based detection systems.» #infOps #genAI #agenticAI #disinfo

cetas.turing.ac.uk

Beyond the Bot Farm: How AI Agents Are Changing Influence Operations

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 09/09/2026

What do governments mean by “disinformation”—and what do they do about it? Today I’m launching the Global Disinformation Policy Database Explorer, a project I led at UT Austin. Explore: www.disinfo-policy.org

disinfo-policy.org

Global Disinformation Policy Database

An open-access, cross-national database of how governments address disinformation, misinformation, and related information disorder: national-level policies from 2000 to 2023, hand-coded across 53 var...

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Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hijacking Trusted Media Brands: Russia’s Favorite Disinformation Tactic Against the West Surged by 850 Percent in the Last Year www.newsguardtech.com/special-repo...

newsguardtech.com

Hijacking Trusted Media Brands: Russia’s Favorite Disinformation Tactic Against the West Surged by 850 Percent in the Last Year

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 28/09/2026

This is the city Turkey deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 28/09/2026

This is the city Turkey deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/02/2026

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 28/09/2026

🇪🇺🗞🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 "The Plots Against Europe: When a Covert Online Influence Operation Just Won't Quit" Presenting this at @disinfo.eu's #Disinfo2026 conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, in the "Still Watching: Platforms Under Investigation" session. Come watch, and reach out to meet. 🔗 www.disinfo.eu/conference/

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 27/09/2026

That's an American state I'd never thought I'd see on a chicken shop sign board.

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 27/09/2026

Dotting my eyes and crossing my teas.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...

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Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel

Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 26/09/2026

The fawning notes of thanks from click-farming grifters to the Zuckster for facilitating their transnational monetised AI slop ragebait is the cherry on top. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvP... #Meta #Facebook #platforms #transparency #grifters #monetization #UK #USA #EU #clickFarms

youtube.com

How to rage bait Americans

YouTube video by Christophe

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Insect starting out as a PhD student and ending up a full professor #AcademicSky

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Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A wonderful conversation with the great @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about a possible Russian attack on Europe beyond Ukraine, why Trump defers to Putin, and Moscow's shadowy ties to the Reform Party. We were on stage at a sell-out event at the the Frontline Club www.thenerve.news/p/russia-war...

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‘The UK has been promoted to Russia’s main opponent’: Luke Harding on Putin, Trump and the potential for a new European war

The Guardian foreign correspondent, who was expelled from Moscow in 2011, tells Carole Cadwalladr he thinks the Kremlin, struggling to make headway with its invasion, will attempt a provocation agains...

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 25/09/2026

“From this point forward, all of the Qin empire's documents, and hopefully the world’s, will be changed to use the much more accurate term, "horse" as opposed to "deer". So it’s a horse. In other words, welcome to the new world of horse shit — HS.”

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Got to guest co-host one of my favorite pods with one of my favorite thinkers and people! Thanks @eringloriaryan.bsky.social <3 <3 <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTe...

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Russian Trolls Are ATTACKING Dems in INSANE Celeb AI Videos

YouTube video by Hysteria

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The scale, speed and coordination of AI-assisted disinformation are outpacing the mechanisms designed to counter them. Pei-Chi Jao writes that Taiwan's year-end elections make that gap more urgent to close.

techpolicy.press

China’s Disinformation Operations in Taiwan Are Changing with AI

AI-driven Chinese influence operations are targeting Taiwan with coordinated content, deepfakes, and social media campaigns, writes Pei-Chi Jao.

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 24/09/2026

Just a step away from the ragebait tabloid headline version "Activist Arrested for Posting Video Online".

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 24/09/2026

«Payments for “suppliers and external services” amounted to €657,333.15. […] The vast majority of these expenses, €593,995.91, was spent on services provided by entities outside the EU. […] just €21,504.07 went to entities in Portugal.» #TommyTenNames #UK #Portugal #shellery #funding

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 24/09/2026

Along with regular shots of faithbait.

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 23/09/2026

New GIF dropped. 🔗 giphy.com/gifs/preside...

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WHAT TO FIX @whattofix.tech · 21/09/2026

📣 BIG NEWS: We have filed a #DSA complaint against #Meta with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) for potential non-compliance with Articles 12, 14, 16 and 20 of the DSA.

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 23/09/2026

Would've been nice to additionally mention the threat from monetised ragebait click farms, and to have a companion clarification campaign to counter disinformation about the initiative itself. But this is a good start.

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 22/09/2026

FFS, "British chap", Starmer's not even an MP anymore, let alone PM.

https://x.com/i/user/1947713325514600449/

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 21/09/2026

📚🎙️ Juicy and worrying observations from Ukraine field reporting, about Kremlin assets in the UK and US, on information disorder, where and how Putin might escalate, and what we can do about it. @lukeharding1968.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social at Frontline Club London, on Betrayal.

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 21/09/2026

This is because Meta has decided to ban all "social issue" advertising in the EU ("Ending Political, Electoral and Social Issue Advertising in the EU in Response to Incoming European Regulation", 2025 July 25) in response to the EU’s Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) rules.

theguardian.com

Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism

Meta tells theatre that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

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Liam Byrne MP @liambyrnemp.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Elon Musk fired off 40 tweets about British politics in January 2025. The entire UK media talked about almost nothing else for six days. That's not an accident. It's a business model. New piece: the US influencer network that's captured Reform UK's information world tinyurl.com/3hzsfjus

tinyurl.com

Take Back Control?

Britain's Populist Right Has Surrendered Its Mind to America

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 20/09/2026

Robin: "Holy matzo, Batman! We're going to be late to the coming-of-age ceremony of Rabbi Edelstein's daughter!" Batman: "Quick, Robin, to the bat mitzvah!"

static.klipy.com

Batman and Robin Running

ALT: Batman and Robin Running

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 20/09/2026

Robin: "Holy matzo, Batman! We're going to be late to the coming-of-age ceremony of Rabbi Edelstein's daughter!" Batman: "Quick, Robin, to the bat mitzvah!"

static.klipy.com

Batman and Robin Running

ALT: Batman and Robin Running

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BBM's operation looks an awful lot like Google's exact definition of scaled content abuse. But the tech giant hasn't taken any lasting action against BBM, as far as we can tell:

Google’s response to BBM’s empire of schlock doesn’t inspire confidence for its future as a steward of the media ecosystem.

In theory, the tech giant prohibits site owners from engaging in what it calls “scaled content abuse,” which it describes as “when many pages are generated for the primary purpose of manipulating search rankings and not helping users.”

Examples of scaled content abuse, according to Google’s guidelines, include “using generative AI tools or other similar tools to generate many pages without adding value for users,” as well as “creating multiple sites with the intent of hiding the scaled nature of the content” and “creating many pages where the content makes little or no sense to a reader but contains search keywords.”

In other words, if what BBM is doing — using the corpses of reliable publications to create a twisted, AI-powered imitation of a conventional media company, built on fake writers and redundant or incoherent content that appears to be garnering more traffic than many actual journalism enterprises — doesn’t count as scaled content abuse, it’s hard to imagine what would.

“Based on what I’ve seen, many of the websites acquired by Brown Brothers Media can rank on Google Discover and Google News,” Navarro told us. “This, combined with their capacity to quickly generate and publish dozens of pages about trendy topics, has allowed them to drive thousands of people to their AI-generated, ad-packed articles. They have now scaled this operation across multiple websites, some of which have been seen to publish hundreds of articles per week.”

“If this isn’t scaled content abuse,” she added, “I don’t know what is.”

But Google hasn’t taken any lasting action against BBM. After we sent detailed questions about this story, the tech giant initially deindexed several BBM sites, including VegOut and Silicon Canals. Weeks later, they appeared back in its search results.

“Our policies for Google Search and News are clear: we prohibit producing low-value content at scale to game ranking,” Google told us in a statement back in May. “While we generally don’t comment on individual sites, we act on policy violations to keep 99 percent of Search visits spam-free.”

As of when we published this story, articles by BBM are still appearing prominently on Google’s platforms. Reached with multiple followup questions about BBM’s vast scale, its presence in Google News and Discover, and the manipulative tactics it continues to employ, Google didn’t respond.

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