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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

📢 Join CPJ, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, @penamerica.bsky.social, and @euatun.bsky.social for a #CSW70 side event to discuss detentions and enforced disappearances of #Ukrainian women journalists by #Russia. 🗓️ March 13, 2026, 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm ET 📝 Register here: shorturl.at/HpQl0

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 01/03/2026

Google has a main problem now as once benign API keys to work with Maps and Firebase now also allow Gemini access and can expose a whole lot of user data they didn't previously had access to Almost 3k of these are exposed online trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-...

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/02/2026

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/02/2026

Nailed it.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

OTD in 1921 Soviet invasion of Georgia began. Less than a year before we signed a treaty with them promising we'd never invade. Lying we won't & then invading anyway is a tradition I maintain to this day.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/02/2026

Gisèle Pelicot was drugged and raped repeatedly by her husband, Dominique Pelicot — who also invited dozens of men into their bedroom to rape Pelicot. In a candid and emotional interview, Pelicot opened up about the trial that shocked the world. nyti.ms/4rR0DfF

A photo shows Gisèle Pelicot with the headline: The Woman at the Center of the French Rape Trial That Shocked the World

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

A big turnout on day 444 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia. 🎥 Levan Zazadze

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

❗️Zelenskyy: "A great mistake is to allow an aggressor to take anything. I do not want to be the president who repeats the same mistakes." "This was a great mistake right at the beginning, from 2014. I can even say it was earlier — when they attacked and occupied part of Georgia,

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 02/02/2026

oh ffs people just use Signal like @evacide.bsky.social says

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A Norwegian home owner was tricked into installing highly advanced surveillance cameras pointed at Northern Europe's only LNG-plant, Melkøya. The cameras have been running 24/7 and sent data to an Italian company now under investigatin. Cameras include advanced thermal sensors.

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I’d like to meet that guy whose job is to bookmark everything I post or reply and to forward it to the regime propaganda media. 💅🏻

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Valentin Châtelet @vchatelet.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🚨 The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned the AEZA Group. Listen to my podcast with Active Measures where I discuss Russia's collaboration with cybercriminal groups and their role in influence operations. AEZA is linked to Op. Doppelgänger & Blacksprut, a major dark web marketplace omny.fm/shows/active...

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The Pravda Network with Valentin Chatelet - The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast

This week, Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson welcome Valentin Chatelet, a research associate at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, for an urgent discussion of the Pravda Network--a Russia...

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Valentin Châtelet @vchatelet.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

In this week's episode of the Active Measure Newsletter's podcast I was invited to discuss the content of our joint investigation with @dfrlab.bsky.social and @checkfirst.network on the Pravda Network and the consequences of the poisoning of LLMs & the targeting of Wikipedia omny.fm/shows/active...

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The Pravda Network with Valentin Chatelet - The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Last year, Russia imported 5.4 MILLION shipping containers. After today’s historic attack, every single one is a potential weapon that Putin is terrified of. Not only has Ukraine neutered Russia’s long-range air capability today, but they just crippled its supply chain & economy. Utter genius.

A photo of a shipping container which concealed the Ukrainian attack drones in a false roof.

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

💥🎙️In a leaked audio, Viktor Orbán's defense minister says Hungary's army is being reshaped “to break with the peace mentality and move toward phase zero of the road leading to war.” It's unlikely he means a war against Russia — he was a business partner of Russia's Transmashholding. 👇Thread.👇

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Radio&Nukes @radioandnukes.com · 07/05/2025

How Dare You Transmit at 1.4 GHz! A NASA satellite built to measure soil moisture just mapped out electronic warfare across UA and western RU. Using open data, we visualized high-powered jamming and spoofing activity at 1.4 GHz radioandnukes.substack.com/p/how-dare-y...

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How Dare You Transmit at 1.4 GHz!

It was launched to measure moisture. Now it’s ghost-trailing jammers across an electronic battlefield.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/05/2025

"Google and Meta accounted for at least half the record £42.6bn spent on UK advertising last year, according to Press Gazette estimates." pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...

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Google and Meta's vast estimated UK earnings revealed

Google and Meta advertising market share for 2024: US tech giants made around £25.4bn in UK alone last year.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 01/05/2025

At least 30 Ukrainian journalists remain in Russian captivity as of April, IMI reported, with little known about their health conditions or whereabouts. Multiple reports have revealed that Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are tortured and killed while in Russian captivity.

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Russia's torture of Viktoriia Roshchyna shocks world, but dozens of Ukrainian journalists still in captivity

It took several DNA tests to confirm the identity of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was killed in Russian captivity in the fall of 2024. Roshchyna, 27, disappeared in August 2023 while...

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Civil.ge @civil.ge · 01/05/2025

EPP calls for sanctions on Ivanishvili, non-recognition of GD parliament, and backing Zurabishvili as the only legitimate representative of the Georgian people. It also calls on the GD to set a specific date for new parliamentary elections.

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EPP’s Resolution Calls for Sanctions on Ivanishvili and New Elections - Civil Georgia

The European People’s Party (EPP), the largest political group in the European Parliament, adopted a

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Amaury @al.intheopen.eu · 18/04/2025

Ever wondered how many “Pravda” articles go live every hour, where they originate or the paths they take? With @vchatelet.bsky.social we decided to build the first Pravda Dashboard offering real‑time windows into Russia’s “Portal Kombat” disinformation network #osint #russia #disinformation

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Pravda in numbers - Content and Network analysis

Interactive dashboard visualizing patterns, language distribution, domain connections and more across the Pravda Russian network.

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained a russian spy in Kyiv who was preparing terrorist attacks near defense facilities.

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Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Russia’s push for control over the occupied Abkhazia is evident in reopening the decades-closed Sukhumi Babushara Airport and a test flight from Moscow. Read more by my colleagues @sopogelava.bsky.social and @vchatelet.bsky.social:

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Russia expands its strategic footprint in occupied Abkhazia

The reopening of the decades-closed Sukhumi Babushara Airport and a test flight from Moscow demonstrate Russia’s push for control over occupied Abkhazia.

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

What do #Wikipedia, #LLms, & #X have in common? They’ve all been quietly infiltrated by the Pravda network—a sprawling web of pro-Kremlin sites posing as news outlets. @vchatelet.bsky.social BlueSky explores #PravdaNetwork w/ @checkfirst.network in this week's the Source: bit.ly/3EcgvpZ

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Terje Helland @terjehelland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

If the West — the UK 🇬🇧 in particular — doesn’t act now with targeted sanctions, it’ll be too late to hurt the dictatorship before it cements its rule and fortune. Time is running out.⌛️

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Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

NEW! Two former U.S officials overseeing Ukraine policy raised alarms over the potential shutdown of a vital Yale unit that has played a key role in gathering evidence on russian war crimes in Ukraine, as the program will run out of funding this weekend👇🏻 kyivpost.com/post/49579

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Terje Helland @terjehelland.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🇬🇪Georgia is quietly undergoing a dramatic geopolitical shift. Under Georgian Dream and its informal leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, the country is accelerating its alignment with Iran (and China and Russia)—abandoning its Western orientation. 🧵A thread on why this matters. 1/16

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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Subjugation is exactly the right word @orelb.bsky.social

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

NEW 🚨 The #Pravdanetwork—a Russia-linked disinformation operation—has infiltrated #Wikipedia, AI chatbots, and #X, spreading pro-Kremlin narratives globally. @vchatelet.bsky.social & @checkfirst.network reveal the scale of this content pollution: bit.ly/3R6XW9l

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Russia-linked Pravda network cited on Wikipedia, LLMs, and X

Pro-Kremlin content pollutes sources on multiple platforms, sparking worries of false claims and sanctioned content reaching global audiences

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Last weekend I tried to get a correction from Matt Taibbi on a basic “mistake”: claiming a report I wrote was source of the stat that 126MM people saw Russian influence op content on FB. Rather than correct, he fought me. He made more “mistakes”. Hilarity ensued. open.substack.com/pub/reneedir...

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An Object Lesson in Bad-Faith Media

Matt Taibbi and the Futility of Getting a Correction from Someone Who Won't Admit They're Wrong

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 10/03/2025

Two excellent lecturers, Ira Kherkheulidze & Giorgi Tsertsvadze, have been dismissed from Tbilisi State University on political grounds. Both are exceptional educators and principled citizens. Academic freedom... [1/2]

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

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SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained

"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Now BBC reports both ships on fire and crew abandoning ships. FU. Hope they make it... Great reporting from BBC here: www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...

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Oil tanker and cargo vessel collide in North Sea

Lifeboats and firefighting teams are on the scene, after two ships collide off the coast of East Yorkshire.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

From Marine Traffic, here's the moment of the crash between the oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate and a cargo vessel MV Solong. Live updates here www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

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Katie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🧵My former world literature lecturer was arrested near Rustaveli yesterday while sitting in front of the Tbilisi Opera, reading a book after his university lectures.

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

March 7 marks 100 continuous days of protests in 🇬🇪. There will be no end to the all-encompassing crisis without new, free & fair elections, and the release of the regime prisoners. 1/

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Seize the ship then.

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Valentin Châtelet @vchatelet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

On attend encore que Sizonenko enjoigne une modification de la constitution ukrainienne 🤡

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Here's the DOGE mistake, beautifully visualized: If you don't go where the money is, you don't save much money. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Guillaume Cingal @guillaumecingal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

À faire circuler parmi les sceptiques et celleux qui voudraient se contenter de dire que “c'est scandaleux” ou qu'“on ne sait pas”.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

1 year ago, after #AlexeiNavalny ’s death, surges of scams were posted to Facebook impersonating the Navalny team, Putin’s political opponents, or posing as credible news sources. @vchatelet.bsky.social & Kristina Gildejeva investigate: dfrlab.org/2025/02/25/n...

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Scammers impersonated Navalny team, news outlets to promote fake stories and lure victims

Scammers activated dormant pages to defraud a Russian-speaking audience following Alexei Navalny's death in February 2024

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The scenes in the Oval Office today will shame the US for decades. They’ll never be forgotten. A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders. A historic disgrace.

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CheckFirst @checkfirst.network · 24/02/2025

🚨 New report! In collaboration with @dfrlab.bsky.social , we reveal the global expansion of #Russia’s so-called "Portal Kombat" network—an influence operation laundering pro-Kremlin content across Europe, Africa, and Asia. First exposed by @viginum.bsky.social a year ago.

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Russia’s so-called “Pravda” network expands worldwide

The network formerly known as Portal Kombat added new domains and expanded its geographic reach over the last year

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