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French security experts identify Moscow-based disinformation network

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    Since 2023: the "pravda" ecosystem Websites targeting the main western countries supporting Ukraine

    The first ecosystem of websites identified by VIGINUM targets several western countries that have publicly expressed their support for Ukraine following Russia's invasion:

    • pravda-fr[.]com: France;

    • pravda-de[.]com: Germany, Austria and Switzerland;

    • pravda-pl[.]com: Poland;

    • pravda-es[.]com: Spain;

    • pravda-en[.]com: United Kingdom and the United States.

    Note: These appear to mimic the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper and its sister sites.

    • Israel frees two hostages in Rafah under cover of air strike; health officials say 37 killed

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    • Indian state's polygamy ban divides some Muslim women

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    • How Justice Dept. special counsel policies let Hur critique Biden’s memory

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    • Blasts near Pakistan candidates' offices kill 26 on election eve

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    • Netanyahu dismisses Hamas ceasefire proposal, insists on total victory

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    • Russia's GDP boost from military spending belies wider economic woes

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    • Gaza: outrage at video of Israeli soldier ‘torturing’ detained Palestinian

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  • Reuters attribution guidelines clearly don’t allow for copying the whole article word for word. That’s not the only paragraph…

    Edit: To further clarify, MEMO doesn’t list who wrote any of their own articles… I suspect it’s because they are all either anonymous with little fact checking and/or written by generative AI.

    • Gaza: outrage at video of Israeli soldier ‘torturing’ detained Palestinian

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    • Gaza: outrage at video of Israeli soldier ‘torturing’ detained Palestinian

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  • If you want an actual answer….

    Middle East Monitor is a pretty small outlet, and not every source on MBFC has an extremely detailed report. It’s a valuable tool, but I would never call it definitive.

    Ad Fontes doesn’t list them at all, which isn’t really surprising given the reach and size of MEMO.

    Also, from MEMO’s website, they don’t try to be unbiased.

    About Us

    There has been a growing need for supporters of, in particular, the Palestinian cause, to master the art of information gathering, analysis and dissemination. This requires well organised, focused and targeted operations. Such initiatives are virtually non-existent in the West today.

    The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) was established to fill this gap.

    Edit: Upon further reading, I can’t help but notice none of their articles have author names attached.

    • Hamas hounds Israeli forces in main Gaza cities

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    • Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature

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  • Beyond that, the money is still going to Google, Yandex, Brave, Bing etc via API payments. If they actually created their own search engine that was any good I’d be more inclined to pay for access.

    https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

    Edit: They do claim to have their own small indexes (Teclis and TinyGem) that they sell API access to, but I’m doubtful it adds significant value.

    • Recommendations for cat insurance in the USA and elsewhere?

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  • Checkout Lemonade. The premium is relatively reasonable, and the yearly limit is like 100k if I remember correctly.

    Older cats might be excluded.

    Preexisting conditions are excluded.

    Recently adopted would be fine and likely easier to insure because you don’t know their medical history.

    • More or less

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  • Sees this meme at exactly 1am.

    There’s definitely a glitch in the Matrix.

    • Drone Attack In Jordan Kills Three American Troops (Updated)

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  • Oh to be clear I’m not doubting the story/headline, I’m just curious about the source because I’ve never heard of them before.

    There are a lot of AI generated ripoffs out there, as well as straight propaganda. I like to at least understand where my news is coming from.

    • Drone Attack In Jordan Kills Three American Troops (Updated)

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  • What is this source?

    As far is I can tell, “The War Zone” is part of The Drive (a defunct YouTube channel, now a website), owned by a company called Recurrent that also owns Popular Science and Bob Vila.

    Maybe it’s credible, maybe not, but without context it’s super hard to tell.

    • Key takeaways from the World Court decision in Israeli genocide case

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    • Gunmen in Iran kill nine Pakistanis days after tit-for-tat strikes

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    • More Countries Halt Aid to U.N. Agency Amid Claims Staff Involved in Israel Attack

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    • Ghostery Private Search

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  • Another independent search company with its own index is great. Repackaging Bing and Google isn’t good enough. I’d be cautious with their privacy claims though.