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Victor Ilie

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"This investigation reveals what data is harvested from Romanians, who ends up receiving it, and why the ads shown on platforms with conspiratorial and extremist content are among the most valuable to this network", based on analyzing 100k ads shown across 131 websites, by @victorilie.bsky.social:
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The Kremlin’s Digital Pirates: How Russian Tracking Pixels Harvest Romanians’ Data to Fund Conspiracies and Extremism - Snoop
This investigation reveals what data is harvested from Romanians, who ends up receiving it, and why the ads shown on platforms with conspiratorial and extremist content are among the most valuable to ...
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FlokiNET ehf @flokinet.bluesky.flokinet.social · 18/05/2026
What is your favorite secure communications tool? 👉 tube.flokinet.is/w/w6EprWKeEn... @weskandar.bsky.social @victorilie.bsky.social @drewoccrp.bsky.social @andreipopoviciu.bsky.social
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Tools for secure communications
What is your favorite secure communications tool?
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FlokiNET ehf @flokinet.bluesky.flokinet.social · 17/04/2026
Not all heroes wear capes. Some just use Signal and delete their conversations. 👏 @victorilie.bsky.social recounts his experience being placed under surveillance by Romanian authorities. Watch here 👇 tube.flokinet.is/w/6kF8fMDPsX...
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Victor Ilie recounts his experience being placed under surveillance by Romanian authorities
Not all heroes wear capes. Some just use Signal and delete their conversations. 👏
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Încă din 2023 mai mulți programatori au pus la punct o rețea de sute de pagini de Facebook și publicații care au încălzit votanții pentru ofensiva extremistă de pe TikTok din campania electorală. Infrastructura lor i-a susținut pe candidații suveraniști și a încălcat regulamentele Meta și TikTok.
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Here in this graph, you can see how many pro-Russian narrative-spreading X accounts were created per day, which then surprisingly followed the far-right presidential candidate Călin Georgescu. #disinformation #cib #fascistsofinternet
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
📣🇷🇺Propaganda rusă de stat i-a ajutat pe europarlamentarii AUR în demersul lor de a o îndepărta de la șefia Comisiei Europene pe Ursula von der Leyen. Rușii au fezandat internetul și au pregătit opinia publică pentru moțiunea AUR încă din martie, cu trei luni în avans. 📡📈
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Cum i-a transformat statul rus în eroi pe extremiștii AUR
Propaganda rusă de stat i-a ajutat pe europarlamentarii AUR în demersul lor de a o îndepărta de la șefia Comisiei Europene pe Ursula von der Leyen.
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
🧑‍💻📡 Organizăm un curs de investigații OSINT pentru donatorii Drepturi și Strâmbe. Primul modul e dedicat tuturor celor care ne susțin financiar, iar în a doua parte vom lucra împreună cu cei mai pasionați dintre voi și vom investiga un subiect de interes public despre dezinformare online. 🤜🤛
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Vara nemulțumirii noastre
Un vicepremier acasă la un traficant de cocaină, un președinte vs legea care condamnă organizațiile legionare, măsuri de austeritate care ne împing spre extremism. Plus o invitație la un curs de OSINT
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Russians spotted spreading shit online by @checkfirst.network and @reset.tech 😍🤢😍🤢😍🤢
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Care-i treaba cu propaganda televizată de la RTV. Nimic nu-i pe gratis, mai nimic nu-i jurnalsim. #RomanianElections #Corruption
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Peste 90.000 emailuri interne de la România TV scot la suprafață istoria propagandei pro-Ponta și de ce este toxic jurnalismul făcut la comandă
Suntem Luiza Vasiliu și Victor Ilie, doi jurnaliști care scriu de-o juma de viață despre abuzuri, corupție, infractori și nedreptăți.
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
My series on the Russian slow burning influence op in Romania was quoted in @opinion.bloomberg.com 🛰️📡🛰️🕸️🛰️📡🛰️ www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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JD Vance Owes Romania an Apology
If he bothered with evidence, he’d see institutions under attack and in need of US support.
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thanks for your solidarity @coemediafreedom.bsky.social @globalfreemedia.bsky.social
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”
A picture of Vladimir Putin holding his phone
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 24/03/2025
⚡️Russia seeks full control of occupied Ukrainian regions in talks with US, media reports. A Kremlin-linked official told the Moscow Times that Vladimir Putin cannot afford to lose these territories politically, and Russia intends to solidify its grip on them at any cost.
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Russia seeks full control of occupied Ukrainian regions in talks with US, media reports
A Kremlin-linked official told the Moscow Times that Vladimir Putin cannot afford to lose these territories politically, and Russia intends to solidify its grip on them at any cost.
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
See you in Perugia @journalismfestival.com
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social simply has lived the dream of all the journalists
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Thanks a lot for your support @globalfreemedia.bsky.social
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Here is the story for Balkan Insight about how I’ve been under surveillance for two months just for being a journalist. I am proud I caught 4/6 operatives, tho they identified two key sources. For more insights about being a journalist in the Balkans, check this out
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Becoming the Story: How Journalists Are Being Targeted by Romanian Law Enforcement
BIRN investigations have uncovered how journalists conducting public-interest investigations in Romania were put under surveillance by their targets with the help of law enforcement.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Reports in the Ukrainian press that Maxar had cut of the Ukrainians access to Maxar imagery, including commercial imagery, at the request of the US administration mil.in.ua/uk/news/maxa...
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Maxar відключив Україні доступ до своїх супутникових знімків
Американська компанія Maxar Technologies відключила доступ до своїх комерційних супутникових знімків користувачам з України
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
You may like my investigation on Adnow, a Russian state connected online advertising company that pumped up a lot of money in divisive ads for far-right publishers
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Pe urmele banilor din reclamele rusești. Drumul de la Ministerul Apărării din Rusia la date personale colectate din România - Snoop
O rețea de publicitate online cu rădăcini rusești alimentează propaganda extremistă și fraudele financiare, folosind România ca teren pentru colectarea de date și manipularea opiniei publice. Din spat...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/03/2025
“Indulging the Tate brothers to own the libs is an act of pure nihilism,” Helen Lewis writes. “Denouncing them should be the easiest test of moral seriousness imaginable, and yet it’s a test that many online influencers are failing in real time.”
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When You’re MAGA, They Let You Do It
Why Trumpworld is just fine with Andrew Tate’s violent misogyny.
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It’s called second hand trauma :(
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/02/2025
Trump and Vance would NEVER, EVER, talk to Putin like that. And everyone knows it.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Donald Trump is Putin’s puppet. He demonstrated that in televised living color in our Oval Office today by disgracefully attacking a democratic leader suffering a murderous invasion by the Russian thug. What a stain on America. Slava Ukraini.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
#EpsteinGate “shows how reliance on influencer-driven media can completely backfire. A bunch of dubious influencers overhyping a pile of regurgitated, stale info only further underscores the need for rigorous, investigative journalism that actually holds power to account”- @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
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The Epstein files influencer 'clusterfuck'
Dubious influencers over-hyping stale, regurgitated information shows how reliance on influencer-driven media can backfire, even on the right.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/02/2025
⚡️ President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump held a 45-minute-long press briefing in the Oval Office that ended in a heated argument about American aid to Ukraine.
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Zelensky, Trump get into heated argument while speaking with journalists in Oval Office
President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump held a 45-minute-long press briefing in the Oval Office that ended in a heated argument about American aid to Ukraine.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/02/2025
German parliament in race against time to sign off on new defence fund
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German parliament in race against time to sign off on new defence fund
Friedrich Merz, expected to be next chancellor, has spoken of urgent need for ramped-up defence, but ‘blocking minority’ could form in future Bundestag Germany’s outgoing parliament could be asked to sign off on a new defence fund in its final weeks as…
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 25/02/2025
⚡️BREAKING: Kyiv, Washington reach agreement on minerals deal. According to the Financial Times, Ukraine secured more favorable terms and framed the deal as a way to strengthen ties with the U.S.
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BREAKING: Kyiv, Washington reach agreement on minerals deal
According to the Financial Times, Ukraine secured more favorable terms and framed the deal as a way to strengthen ties with the U.S.
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Am scris despre niște strâmbe cu @luizavasiliu.bsky.social pe newsletterul nostru
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SUA-RO-RU: lobby, presiuni și minciuni
Istoria relațiilor româno-americane dintr-o bază de date care a apărut ca reacție la propaganda nazistă. Și reacțiile naziste din relațiile româno-americane de astăzi.
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Mario Nawfal came to #Romania to endorse the far right politicians for the next #elections and now he quotes former PM Adrian Nastase, a pro-Russian political figure previously convicted for corruption
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Trump administration just asked the Romanian justice system to help Andrew Tate be free again, but the infamous influencer is accused of human trafficking and sex with minors and close connections with Romanian mobs. Here is my investigation on this www.riseproject.ro/en/investiga...
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The Tate Brothers Split the Money They Make from Gambling with an Organized Crime Syndicate • Rise Project
We found six casinos off of which the brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate are making money in Romania.  The Brits are linked with the largest organized crime brotherhood in Romania’s recent history: the ...
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Victor Ilie @victorilie.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
M-a invitat Radu Buzaianu la #CeSeIntampla sa vorbim despre Horatiu Potra si afacerile lui dubioase din Congo. Concluzia e nasoala: Omul face acolo jocurile rusilor, se trezeste random cu kile de aur in declaratia de avere, decimeaza trupele speciale ale MAPN si muta ilegal cash untraceable
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Ce s-a întâmplat cu MERCENARII ÎN CONGO #interviuricsi
YouTube video by Ce se întâmplā
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