Russia Poisons Wikipedia
***Please take out a membership to support the light of truth.*** As AI chatbots continue to advance, Russia is infecting them with Kremlin-manipulated content tailored to influence the global internet, distorting the public’s understanding of facts and ability to make well-informed decisions.—Exposing Pravda: How pro-Kremlin forces are poisoning AI models and rewriting Wikipedia, Atlantic Council […]
Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart
Russia has helped amplify and spread false and misleading internet claims about recent hurricanes in the United States and the federal government’s response, part of a wider effort by the Kremlin to manipulate America’s political discourse before the presidential election, new research shows. The content, spread by Russian state media and networks of social media […]
Russia Leverages AI-enhanced “Meliorator” software for foreign malign influence
Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), the Netherlands General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), and Netherlands Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD), and the National Police of the Netherlands (DNP) (hereinafter referred to as the authoring organizations), seek […]
Russia ‘Coup’ Live Forecast
Russian officials have accused Wagner Group of staging a mutiny, with some calling it an attempted coup. What happens next? nb: while we will make a best effort to ensure that information contained within our forecast analysis is accurate, this is a fast-moving situation with many hard-to-verify claims and it’s possible that early reports will […]
Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918
(Bloomberg) — Russia defaulted on its foreign-currency sovereign debt for the first time in a century, the culmination of ever-tougher Western sanctions that shut down payment routes to overseas creditors. For months, the country found paths around the penalties imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. But at the end of the day on […]
Russia to Legalize Software Piracy
March 5, 2022 Business news service Kommersant (“Коммерсантъ”, literally “merchant”)—think Russian Wall Street Journal or Financial Times—reports: In Russia Pirates are Legal Against the backdrop of sanctions gaining momentum, Russian authorities are urgently preparing support measures, among which is being discussed the suspension of criminal and administrative liability for use of pirated software “from countries […]
Tell HN: If You Are in Russia
Every Russian citizen and every Russian company that is currently relying on businesses in the West such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and so on for hosting, communications, connectivity and other services should expect those services to be cut off at some point in the near future, and plan accordingly. This also goes for stuff deeply […]
Russia orders block on foreign clients’ bids to sell Russian securities
A Russian state flag flies over the Central Bank headquarters in Moscow, Russia March 29, 2021. A sign reads: “Bank of Russia”. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register MOSCOW, Feb 28 (Reuters) – The Russian central bank has ordered market players to reject foreign clients’ bids to sell Russian […]
Russia mistakenly posted post-war article about Ukraine joining Russia
Новый мир рождается на наших глазах. Военная операция России на Украине открыла новую эпоху — причем сразу в трех измерениях. И конечно, в четвертом, внутрироссийском. Тут начинается новый период и в идеологии, и в самой модели нашего социально-экономического строя — но об этом стоит поговорить отдельно чуть позже.Россия восстанавливает свое единство — трагедия 1991 года, […]
Russia restricts opposition election voting app
Mobile app store metrics from NetBlocks confirm the removal of a popular opposition election tracking app from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The incident comes as Russia holds parliamentary elections from 17 to 19 September 2021. The strategic voting application devised by jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, titled simply “Navalny”, is now […]