#propaganda

"Israel has long been engaged in influence operations against Iran, which the Israeli government views as an existential threat, analysts said.

A report published in October by the Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog group, concluded that a network of more than 50 inauthentic profiles on X, the social media platform, was organized by the Israeli government or a closely supervised subcontractor. The network, according to researchers, started ramping up its use of artificial intelligence early last year to spread narratives encouraging Iranians to revolt.

After a wave of protests in 2022, the National Iranian American Council commissioned a report about state-sponsored manipulation of social media. The report found “a coordinated campaign to manipulate social media algorithms and overwhelm targeted voices with disinformation, smears and threats” by using a large network of inauthentic accounts. The researchers said much of the activity then was most likely attributable to the Israeli government.

The online activity surrounding the current protests extends a yearslong “competition for who is going to be the dominant voice in the diaspora,” Jamal Abdi, the council’s president, said.
Golden Owl, a digital threat intelligence company in Spain, reported that it had uncovered two Iranian campaigns on X with more than 4,700 accounts pushing pro-government content."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/business/iran-internet-blackout-protests-disinformation.html

#Iran #SocialMedia #InternetShutdown #Disinformation #Propaganda #Israel

"Nordic governments are rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertions that Russian and Chinese vessels are operating near Greenland, warning that the claims are not supported by intelligence and are fueling destabilizing rhetoric, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

Two senior Nordic diplomats with access to NATO intelligence briefings told the FT there is no evidence of Russian or Chinese ships or submarines operating around Greenland in recent years, directly contradicting Trump’s justification for U.S. control of the Arctic territory.

“I have seen the intelligence. There are no ships, no submarines,” one diplomat told the paper.

Trump has claimed that Greenland is “covered with Russian and Chinese ships” and argued that the U.S. must take control of the island for national security reasons — rhetoric that has intensified in recent weeks."

https://www.politico.eu/article/nordic-officials-reportedly-dismiss-trump-greenland-claims-nato-defense/

#USA #Trump #Imperialism #Greenland #Denmark #Disinformation #Propaganda

Right-wing anti-environmental propaganda has many politicians fooled into thinking the public don't support climate action.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/05/mps-underestimate-support-green-policies-study
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #Politicians #PublicOpinion #Propaganda #Misalignment

"Jacques Baud is a Swiss citizen now residing in Brussels. He was formerly a colonel in the Swiss army and served for many years as an analyst in Swiss Intelligence and in the Swiss Foreign Ministry. He has held senior positions at the United Nations and was more recently an adviser to N.A.T.O. covering Ukrainian affairs.

Baud is now 70 and has for some years applied his exceptional expertise to analysis and commentary on war, peace, geopolitics, and affairs of state, work that has earned him a reputation for insight and integrity. His most recent books are The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat and Operation Al–Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher, which explains the events of 7 October 2023 by way of Israel’s incessant breaches of international law over 75 years. Max Milo Editions, a small French house, brought out both books last year.

On 15 December the European Union imposed sanctions on this distinguished man. He is now on the E.U. Sanctions Tracker, which lists the names and offenses of those the E.U. has summarily blacklisted. Here is Baud’s entry on this truly diabolic website:

Jacques Baud, a former Swiss army colonel and strategic analyst, is a regular guest on pro–Russian television and radio programmes. He acts as a mouthpiece for pro–Russian propaganda and makes conspiracy theories, for example accusing Ukraine of orchestrating its own invasion in order to join NATO.

We are now in the land wherein those who propagate disinformation assert that they are countering “disinformation,” and let us observe our quotation marks, for “disinformation,” in Baud’s case as in many others, means accurate information."

https://thefloutist.substack.com/p/free-speech-and-its-enemies

#EU #Europe #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Disinformation #Propaganda #Ukraine #NATO #Russia

Imperialism:

"U.S. companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven reserves of crude, and officials didn’t kick them out of the country.

“Trump’s claim that Venezuela has stolen oil and land from the U.S. is baseless,” said Francisco Rodríguez, a Venezuelan economist at the University of Denver.

Nationalization was the culmination of a decades-long effort by administrations of both the right and the left to bring under government control an industry that an earlier leader had largely given away.

The right-wing strongman Juan Vicente Gómez, the military dictator who ruled Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935, granted concessions that left three foreign oil companies in control of 98 percent of the Venezuelan market. The country became the world’s second-largest oil producer and largest exporter; oil accounted for over 90 percent of the country’s total exports.

Gómez’s successors tried to seize greater control over the country’s economy. Under President Isaías Medina Angarita, authorities approved a law in 1943 that required foreign oil companies to relinquish half their profits to the government. A 1958 pact signed by Democratic Action, the Democratic Republican Union and the Independent Political Electoral Organization Committee ensured the country’s major political parties had access to oil profits.

By the time Venezuelan lawmakers began debating nationalization legislation in 1975, Rodríguez said, the “writing was on the wall.”"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/20/venezuela-oil-nationalization-expropriation/

#USA #Trump #Imperialism #Venezuela #Oil #Propaganda #Disinformation

Ce prodigieux dessin de Bill Bramhall publié en 2021 dans le Daily News reste malheureusement d'actualité.
#propagande
#CNEWS
#RN
#Bolloré
#extremedroite
#propaganda
#fakenews