Jochen Spangenberg

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges.
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

The widely used satellite imagery provider, Planet Labs, has announced there will now be a two week delay on imagery related to the current conflict in Iran to commercial customers.

Completing vera.ai – All About AI-Assisted Verification In this article, our colleagues Anna Schild and Jochen Spangenberg reflect on EU project ver.ai and the lessons we've learned from it.

We completed the @vera-ai.bsky.social project, funded by @ec.europa.eu @horizoneu.bsky.social recently. Here, I look back on what was done and achieved - together with my @dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy colleague Anna Schild who, with Eva Lopez, focussed on tool evaluation and testing.

Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba chosen as Iran’s new supreme leader Move could lead to escalation of war as Donald Trump has already called Mojtaba Khamenei an unacceptable choice

It stays in the family! Or: family supreme.
Mojtaba #Khamenei to succeed his father as new supreme leader of #Iran.

Iran-Krieg: ++ Mojtaba Chamenei laut Staatsmedien neuer Führer ++ Irans Staatsmedien verkünden, dass Mojtaba Chamenei Nachfolger seines Vaters als oberster Führer wird. Frankreichs Präsident Macron hat mit Irans Präsidenten Peseschkian telefoniert. Alle Entwicklunge...

Es bleibt in der Familie! Sohn folgt auf Vater.
Mojtaba #Chamenei neuer Führer des #Iran

Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters Let's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War

@djrothkopf.bsky.social to the point again, no messing.
Says the biggest threat overall is the man in the White House. This “sick, sick man holds the most powerful job in the world.”
Calling on the sane: We must not, however “ignore the human costs of these wars”, and personal tragedies resulting

Die Schauspieler*innen

Die Schauspieler*innen

Die Schauspieler*innen

‘Hospital der Geister’ von Lars von Trier im Deutschen Theater Berlin. 4 Std 40 Min geballte Theaterpower (inkl 2 Pausen). Am Ende standing ovations.

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

Investigation by @nytimes.com into strikes on #Minab, #Iran, on Feb. 28 that caused extensive damage to a school, killing many civilians, lots of them children. Reporting by @malachy.bsky.social and Aaron Boxerman, supported by members of the NYT Visual Investigations Team.

A lone battle: Why is Pedro Sánchez the only European leader to take on Trump? As the Spanish PM decries the war in Iran, other politicians are unable – or unwilling – to speak against the US president

Different tactics of different European leaders dealing with #Trump and his unpredictable moves.

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."

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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