Jochen Spangenberg

Es gab da kürzlich einen, der den Job recht ordentlich gemacht hat …

'Narrative war': disinformation surges as conflict roils Middle East Recycled images, video game footage passed off as missile strikes, and AI-generated combat visuals: the US-Israeli assault on Iran has unleashed a torrent of online disinformation that analysts are ca...

“Recycled images, video game footage passed off as missile strikes, and AI-generated combat visuals: the US-Israeli assault on Iran has unleashed a torrent of online disinformation that analysts are calling a war of narratives.”

In Berlin ist es der „Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel“ der betroffen sein soll.
www.buchladen-weltkugel.de
Daneben, so SZ, der Göttinger Buchladen „Rote Straße“ und der Bremer „Golden Shop“. Das #Kulturministerium will die drei Namen nicht bestätigen, so die @taz.de
taz.de/Buchlaeden-v...

And 52 in Lebanon.

How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation Modified images of strikes circulate as fighting intensifies across the Middle East

#generativeAI makes it easier to fabricate convincing visual - but non-real and misleading - content. At the same time, it is becoming harder and harder for audiences to distinguish between documentation and deception.
This now also applies to satellite imagery.
#OSINT

How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation Modified images of strikes circulate as fighting intensifies across the Middle East

#generativeAI makes it easier to fabricate convincing visual - but non-real and misleading - content. At the same time, it is becoming harder and harder for audiences to distinguish between documentation and deception.
This now also applies to satellite imagery.
#OSINT

CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran and the Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish lea...

NEW: The CIA has been working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

Barbara Streisand lässt grüßen…
schwarzerisse.de
#StreisandEffekt

There is smoke rising from the vicinity US Consulate in Dubai after it was allegedly struck by an Iranian drone a short while ago.

Geolocation of the video filming location below from @easybakeovensz.bsky.social: 25.259, 55.318

t.me/sepah_quds/2...

X Will Stop Paying People for Sharing Unlabeled AI-Generated War Footage Fake war footage is a problem as old as social media. AI has just supercharged it.

As you can imagine, there are a ton of fake AI-generated war videos on X right now. So will X suspend accounts? No. They say they'll get the community to police themselves and users creating unlabeled AI-generated war content will be temporarily suspended from monetizing. No account bans though.

Or #broligarchy!

(Thanks and credit for the term go to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who introduced it to mainstream media in around 2024)

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

Well at least now we can steal everyone's Al rubbish.
Anyone can now upload all those Al videos that get millions of views on social media...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

After Mexico’s most-wanted cartel leader was killed, OSINT helped fuel both clarity and confusion online Many OSINT analysts are experts in their fields and take care to verify information before publishing, but even well-intentioned accounts may inject more noise than clarity into an already tense situa...

Applying #OSINT to research and investigations, trying to get a clearer picture about what’s happening, can be revealing or confusing.
@hanaatameez.bsky.social looks at the situation surrounding the killing of Mexican cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes in this @niemanlab.org piece.

Not enough embarrassment yet - US administration wants more …

Can someone help me out here and give me a job description of what Mark #Rutte is tasked to do please.

Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This. Don’t. The old U.S.-led order is dead; the new one feels unstable and ominous, as if a storm could descend at any moment.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

President Trump’s “authoritarianism is not abstract. There is nothing stopping him from wielding the awesome power of the United States to serve his own interests, not the public’s,” Ben Rhodes writes. “War should never be normal.”

Important to listen to what #Hegseth says. How he says it.

Even Trump loyalists are struggling to defend his attack on Iran The US President has set in motion something he can’t control – it could engulf him

"Trump has regularly mocked Barack Obama for launching military operations in the Middle East. He tapped into a huge sentiment among US voters to stop overseas adventures. Now he has launched one with no approval from Congress, no legal basis and with barely any explanation."

Frag ich mich auch!

E3 Joint Leaders’ Statement on Iran: by President Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Joint Statement on #Iran following US airstrikes by French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

The things they get wrong ….

Iran state media confirms killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following US-Israeli missile strikes Confirmation of supreme leader’s killing follows announcement by Donald Trump that ‘one of the most evil people in history, is dead’

Iran state media confirms killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following US-Israeli missile strikes www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Genau! Es gibt schließlich auch Pflichten, denen sich niemand entziehen kann / sollte...
Frei nach JFK: "Frage nicht, was dein Land für dich tun kann, frage, was du für dein Land tun kannst".

Sorry! Aber vielen Dank, dass Du an mich gedacht hast. Das weiss ich sehr zu schätzen! 🙏
(Und wenn das Land doch rufen sollte, wer weiss.... 😉)

Inside the $265mn war over who writes America’s AI rules Silicon Valley rivals in spending blitz for control of Congress and state capitols

"Groups campaigning for and against more AI regulation are amassing at least $265mn in collective financial firepower, according to FT analysis. This is $100mn more than the main parties’ fundraising vehicles for House elections had raised by this time in 2022."
www.ft.com/content/c182...

ich stehe definitiv nicht zur Verfügung. Und pass da vom Profil her auch gar nicht rein...

Could the problems maybe also be related to that guy Elon M?!?

Russia soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops in Ukraine war executed on commanders' orders Four men expose the horror and brutality of conditions in the Ukraine war, with two saying they saw soldiers being shot for refusing orders.

Russia’s war: how commanders deal with (and torture) their own soldiers.
WARNING: graphic descriptions that may be disturbing.

Should have been Hungarian prime minister, not president, Viktor Orbán.

@terryreintke.bsky.social of Greens/EFA Group calls out Hungarian president Viktor Orbán and says he "betrayed Europe" by being #Putin 's puppet.
Debate in @europarl.europa.eu