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Russia Uses “LLM Grooming’ to Inject Disinformation Into AI Chatbots

October 23 2025, 9:03 am 9:03 am Published by Editor Leave your thoughts <p>Rus­sia has shift­ed its dis­in­for­ma­tion strat­e­gy to flood­ing the inter­net with mil­lions of mis­lead­ing arti­cles designed to be scraped by […]</p>

Russian Disinformation Operations in Africa: Kremlin Bot Farms Exposed

8:48 am Published by Editor Leave your thoughts <p>Russ­ian dis­in­for­ma­tion oper­a­tions in Africa deploy thou­sands of agents, prox­ies, Krem­lin-con­trolled media out­lets, co-opt­ed jour­nal­ists, and paid influ­encers to weave […]</p>

Can Democracy Recover From Trump? New Research Reveals Answer

October 22 2025, 9:38 am 9:38 am Published by Editor Leave your thoughts <p>New polit­i­cal sci­ence research sug­gests democ­ra­cies can sur­vive author­i­tar­i­an lead­ers like Don­ald Trump, but suc­cess­ful recov­er­ies are often frag­ile and […]</p>

Turkey Expands Influence Operations in Western Balkans via Mosques

October 21 2025, 8:03 am 8:03 am Published by Editor Leave your thoughts <p>Turkey is expand­ing its polit­i­cal influ­ence across the West­ern Balka­ns by invest­ing in infra­struc­ture and reli­gious land­mark build­ings, with mosque […]</p>

Germany Urges DITIB Mosque Association to Cut Erdogan Ties

7:29 am Published by Editor Leave your thoughts <p>The Ger­man gov­ern­ment urged the Turk­ish-Islam­ic Union for Reli­gious Affairs, the coun­try’s main mosque asso­ci­a­tion with around 1,000 mosques, to […]</p>

MAGA Movement Shows Divisions After Charlie Kirk Assassination

October 20 2025, 9:30 am 9:30 am Published by Editor Leave your thoughts <p>The MAGA move­ment is expe­ri­enc­ing vis­i­ble divi­sions after the assas­si­na­tion of right-wing influ­encer Char­lie Kirk, with com­pet­ing claims to his […]</p>

Baltic States Counter Russian Influence Operations Targeting Russian Minorities

7:59 am Published by Editor Leave your thoughts <p>Esto­nia and Latvia are imple­ment­ing mea­sures to counter Russ­ian influ­ence oper­a­tions tar­get­ing their Russ­ian-speak­ing minori­ties, includ­ing phas­ing out Russ­ian lan­guage […]</p>

Erdogan Calls for Turkish American Community Unity Against “Smear Campaigns”

October 17 2025, 9:59 am 9:59 am Published by Editor Leave your thoughts <p>Turk­ish Pres­i­dent Recep Tayyip Erdo­gan urged the Turk­ish Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ty to close ranks and act in sol­i­dar­i­ty against smear cam­paigns […]</p>

China Influence Operations Target India Using AI and Disinformation

7:47 am Published by Editor Leave your thoughts <p>Chi­na has deployed sophis­ti­cat­ed influ­ence oper­a­tions against India using arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence-gen­er­at­ed dis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paigns, social media manip­u­la­tion through front com­pa­nies, and […]</p>

NATO Official Warns Russian Hybrid Warfare Includes Disinformation Attacks

7:09 am Published by Editor Leave your thoughts <p>NATO mem­bers are increas­ing­ly con­cerned about sus­pect­ed hybrid attacks from Rus­sia com­bin­ing dis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paigns, cyber­at­tacks, and drone harass­ment aimed at […]</p>