Roman A.
@romanad.bsky.social
Investigate disinformation, extremism and other fun things. Former EU DisinfoLab and ISD Global Analyst. Repost≠endorsement. Opinions are strictly my own.
L’attentat de Berlin révèle-t-il le tournant sahélien du djihad européen ?
L’attentat de Berlin révèle-t-il le tournant sahélien du djihad européen ?
De nouveaux documents sur le terroriste de la Marche des Fiertés pourraient signaler une nouvelle phase de l'État islamique.
legrandcontinent.eu
Russia’s Matryoshka bot network targets Emmanuel Macron’s political heir ahead of France's 2027 election Eight fake videos targeting Gabriel Attal while posing as @lefigaro.fr, @afp.com, @liberation.fr and other French outlets were flagged by @antibot4navalny.bsky.social.
Russia’s Matryoshka bot network targets Emmanuel Macron’s political heir ahead of France's 2027 election
The Russian Matryoshka bot network has launched a disinformation campaign targeting Gabriel Attal, the French presidential candidate from Emmanuel Macron’s…
theins.press
Across Europe, gendered narratives, anti-gender mobilisation and misogyny are reshaping how extremist movements recruit, radicalise and organise online. Yet these dynamics are still too often treated as separate from broader efforts to prevent violent extremism. www.emmelo.eu/posts/the-ro...
Masculinity in extremist movements: Policy Recommendations
THE ROLE OF MASCULINITY IN EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EUROPEAN POLICYMAKERS FOR EVIDENCE-BASED AND SENSITIVE RESPONSES
emmelo.eu
💡📄 How does an authoritarian regime fight back against a hashtag movement? @hosseinkermani.bsky.social & colleagues examined how pro-regime Iranian Twitter accounts suppressed the Mahsa Amini movement, clarifying mechanisms of repression under theocracy. Read #OA: doi.org/10.1080/1353...
Hashtag activism and its enemies: a discursive analysis of suppressing #MahsaAmini on Persian Twitter
This paper examines how the Iranian regime’s online supporters sought to manipulate and suppress the #MahsaAmini movement on Iranian Twitter. Whereas prior work emphasizes the emancipatory potentia...
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Crise de Ceuta : l’impossible quête des origines de la rumeur d’une ouverture de la frontière
Les messages et vidéos publiés sur Facebook, TikTok ou Instagram semblent avoir largement contribué à l’afflux de candidats à l’exil à Ceuta, fin juillet. A ce stade, rien ne prouve qu’il ait pu s’agi...
lemonde.fr
et dans @liberation.fr pour parler du coup de pouce de Musk à des influenceurs français d’extrême droite. Ou comment la gouvernance de X repose davantage sur le jugement personnel du propriétaire plutôt que sur une politique cohérente + ce que ça nous dit pour 2027 (🙏 @pierreplottu.bsky.social)
Pierre Plottu@pierreplottu.bsky.social · 13h agoLe nouveau coup de main d’Elon Musk aux influenceurs d’extrême droite français www.liberation.fr/politique/le...
Le nouveau coup de main d’Elon Musk aux influenceurs d’extrême droite français www.liberation.fr/politique/le...
Le nouveau coup de main d’Elon Musk aux influenceurs d’extrême droite français
Interpellé par une identitaire française, Elon Musk est intervenu pour réactiver des comptes d’extrême droite suspendus sur X. Si l’épisode n’est pas une première, il pose la question d’une forme d’éd...
liberation.fr
⚡️Update: Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue. A massive Russian attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported Aug. 5.
Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue
A massive Russian ballistic missile and drone attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported overnight ...
kyivindependent.com
Face à la menace russe, le Japon contraint de renforcer ses services d’espionnage
Face à la menace russe, le Japon contraint de renforcer ses services d’espionnage
Les révélations du « New York Times » sur un espion russe ont montré l’ampleur des insuffisances du renseignement nippon, devenu l’un des maillons faibles que Moscou utilisait pour contourner les sanctions occidentales et équiper son armée.
lemonde.fr
Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
theatlantic.com
Rosfinmonitoring added Viktor Kalinin, a teenager from St. Petersburg, to its registry of terrorists and extremists on July 30. Kalinin turned 14 just three months ago. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
Russia adds its youngest person yet to registry of ‘terrorists and extremists.’ He just turned 14. — Meduza
Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) added Viktor Kalinin, a teenager from St. Petersburg, to its registry of terrorists and extremists on July 30, a Telegram channel that…
meduza.io
A new Comintern: How the Kremlin lures Western “socialists” into the Russian army The Insider has identified several British and U.S. citizens who were recruited to fight for Russia with the help of “communists” and far-left activists.
A new Comintern: How the Kremlin lures Western “socialists” into the Russian army
Russia has built a network linking socialist and anti-globalist groups abroad under the banner of support for left-wing causes. The effort often starts with…
theins.press
WATCH: ProPublica & @drilledmedia.bsky.social found that oil and gas companies have been funding climate research at prestigious US universities for 30+ years. This research fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels: propub.li/3TTgAGp
It was a massive attack involving dozens of ballistic missiles. Russia killed nine people and injured 28 more, including four children, in Kyiv overnight. Civilian infrastructure was heavily damaged across multiple districts of the city.
Philanthropist who inspires fear: How George Soros became the political right’s chief enemy worldwide The story traces how propaganda and conspiracy theories transformed Soros into a global symbol for the political right.
Philanthropist who inspires fear: How George Soros became the political right’s chief enemy worldwide
“Soros wants to destroy Western civilization,” Elon Musk tweeted on June 25. “George Soros and his son should stand trial. They are destroying our country,”…
theins.press
Even Russian state-aligned polls indicate an increasing anxiety among Russians. How close to the March 2022 figures. Ukraine is finally reaching out to to a large audience in Russia
❗️ [ 🇺🇦 UKRAINE | 🇫🇷 FRANCE ] 🔸L'Ukraine a déployé 70 sapeurs-pompiers et 15 véhicules spécialisés en France pour participer à la lutte contre les incendies. L'Ukraine indique qu'une aide supplémentaire, y compris des moyens aériens, pourrait être envoyée si nécessaire.
L’identité du Figaro usurpée pour une fausse citation de Jean-Noël Barrot sur Xenia Fedorova
L’identité du Figaro usurpée pour une fausse citation de Jean-Noël Barrot sur Xenia Fedorova
Un visuel du Figaro a été détourné pour attribuer au ministre des Affaires étrangères français, Jean-Noël Barrot, des propos qu'il n'a jamais prononcés sur l'expulsion de l'ancienne dirigeante de RT France, Xenia Fedorova.
f24.my
NEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients
A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?
futurism.com
Uncovering the digital infrastructure behind Russian interference in Armenian elections How Russia’s Storm-1516 reached millions of social media users with fabricated stories about Armenia. dfrlab.org/2026/07/29/u...
Uncovering the digital infrastructure behind Russian interference in Armenian elections
How Russia's Storm-1516 reached millions of social media users with fabricated stories about Armenia.
dfrlab.org
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France. The campaign promotes a false narrative alleging that the wife of a presidential candidate Raphaël Glucksmann attempted to bribe media outlets to promote a positive image of her husband and his electoral campaign
Le photojournaliste Antoni Lallican, tué en octobre dernier par une frappe de drone russe, a été décoré à titre posthume de la légion d’honneur. Il nous manquera toujours. Puisse son travail continuer d’être diffusé, vu et regardé. www.la-croix.com/culture/guer...
Guerre en Ukraine : le photojournaliste français Antoni Lallican décoré de la Légion d’honneur à titre posthume
Tué le 3 octobre 2025 dans le Donbass par une frappe de drone russe, le photojournaliste Antoni Lallican a été fait chevalier de la Légion d’honneur à titre posthume, selon le Journal officiel publié ...
la-croix.com
Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...
Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth
Custom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.
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‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather
‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather
Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely The extreme heat and drought stoking huge wildfires in Spain and France were made far more likely by the climate crisis, a scientific analysis has found. Global heating made hot, dry and windy weather at least 20 times more likely in Spain and twice as likely in France, experts from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) consortium calculated. The finding is the latest to pin the blame for the continent’s sweltering and deadly summer firmly on the heating caused by the burning of oil, gas and coal. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
La France gèle les avoirs de Xenia Fedorova, propagandiste pro-Poutine visée par un arrêté d’expulsion
La France gèle les avoirs de Xenia Fedorova, propagandiste pro-Poutine visée par un arrêté d’expulsion
Mercredi, le ministère de l’intérieur avait affirmé que l’ex-dirigeante de RT France et figure de Cnews, était visée par un arrêté d’expulsion.
lemonde.fr
NEW: The website once owned by Cambridge Analytica (!) is now an AI content farm. Rebranded as "CA Privacy Watch," the site is littered with plagiarism and weird errors. It's also utilized at least one fake writer whose face seems to have been stolen from a random guy. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
futurism.com
"From this week, the EU AI Act requires deepfakes and AI-generated content to be labelled. Experts warn technical gaps and a lack of common standards could undermine enforcement." www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... @euronews.com
The EU is forcing tech companies to label deepfakes. Will it work?
From this week, the EU AI Act requires deepfakes and AI-generated content to be labelled. Experts warn technical gaps and a lack of common standards could undermine enforcement. #EuropeNews
euronews.com
Updated Wildberries infographic. Reminder that the total rebuilding costs estimate only the warehouses and the costs to equipment them would at least be just as much or maybe more. We still don't have estimates of the damage to sellers but it's likely close to 1 trilion rubles.
Former head of RT’s French division Ksenia Fedorova to be expelled from France France believes that Fedorova is taking part in “the disinformation campaigns led by the Russian authorities” with the aim of “destabilizing public order” in France.
Former head of RT’s French division Ksenia Fedorova to be expelled from France
Ksenia Fedorova, the former head of the French division of the Russian state-controlled propaganda channel RT (formerly Russia Today), will be expelled from…
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