@vchatelet.bsky.social
Research Associate, Security @DFRLab Uralistics afficionado 🔆 & GIS engineer 🌐
🚨 The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned the AEZA Group. Listen to my podcast with Active Measures where I discuss Russia's collaboration with cybercriminal groups and their role in influence operations. AEZA is linked to Op. Doppelgänger & Blacksprut, a major dark web marketplace omny.fm/shows/active...
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In this week's episode of the Active Measure Newsletter's podcast I was invited to discuss the content of our joint investigation with @dfrlab.bsky.social and @checkfirst.network on the Pravda Network and the consequences of the poisoning of LLMs & the targeting of Wikipedia
omny.fm/shows/active...
A photo of a shipping container which concealed the Ukrainian attack drones in a false roof.
Last year, Russia imported 5.4 MILLION shipping containers.
After today’s historic attack, every single one is a potential weapon that Putin is terrified of.
Not only has Ukraine neutered Russia’s long-range air capability today, but they just crippled its supply chain & economy.
Utter genius.
💥🎙️In a leaked audio, Viktor Orbán's defense minister says Hungary's army is being reshaped “to break with the peace mentality and move toward phase zero of the road leading to war.”
It's unlikely he means a war against Russia — he was a business partner of Russia's Transmashholding.
👇Thread.👇
How Dare You Transmit at 1.4 GHz!
A NASA satellite built to measure soil moisture just mapped out electronic warfare across UA and western RU. Using open data, we visualized high-powered jamming and spoofing activity at 1.4 GHz radioandnukes.substack.com/p/how-dare-y...
"Google and Meta accounted for at least half the record £42.6bn spent on UK advertising last year, according to Press Gazette estimates." pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...
01.05.2025 10:44 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
At least 30 Ukrainian journalists remain in Russian captivity as of April, IMI reported, with little known about their health conditions or whereabouts. Multiple reports have revealed that Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are tortured and killed while in Russian captivity.
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EPP calls for sanctions on Ivanishvili, non-recognition of GD parliament, and backing Zurabishvili as the only legitimate representative of the Georgian people. It also calls on the GD to set a specific date for new parliamentary elections.
01.05.2025 10:57 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Ever wondered how many “Pravda” articles go live every hour, where they originate or the paths they take?
With @vchatelet.bsky.social we decided to build the first Pravda Dashboard offering real‑time windows into Russia’s “Portal Kombat” disinformation network
#osint #russia #disinformation
Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained a russian spy in Kyiv who was preparing terrorist attacks near defense facilities.
17.04.2025 14:55 — 👍 49 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
Russia’s push for control over the occupied Abkhazia is evident in reopening the decades-closed Sukhumi Babushara Airport and a test flight from Moscow.
Read more by my colleagues @sopogelava.bsky.social and @vchatelet.bsky.social:
What do #Wikipedia, #LLms, & #X have in common? They’ve all been quietly infiltrated by the Pravda network—a sprawling web of pro-Kremlin sites posing as news outlets. @vchatelet.bsky.social BlueSky explores #PravdaNetwork w/ @checkfirst.network in this week's the Source: bit.ly/3EcgvpZ
11.04.2025 13:15 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
If the West — the UK 🇬🇧 in particular — doesn’t act now with targeted sanctions, it’ll be too late to hurt the dictatorship before it cements its rule and fortune.
Time is running out.⌛️
[Hybrid warfare] 🧵hey @viginum.bsky.social , here is our take: Global Kombat, the Russian one-stop shop for influence goes global
alleyesonwagner.org/2025/03/25/g...
NEW! Two former U.S officials overseeing Ukraine policy raised alarms over the potential shutdown of a vital Yale unit that has played a key role in gathering evidence on russian war crimes in Ukraine, as the program will run out of funding this weekend👇🏻
kyivpost.com/post/49579
🇬🇪Georgia is quietly undergoing a dramatic geopolitical shift. Under Georgian Dream and its informal leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, the country is accelerating its alignment with Iran (and China and Russia)—abandoning its Western orientation.
🧵A thread on why this matters.
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Subjugation is exactly the right word @orelb.bsky.social
14.03.2025 14:58 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
NEW 🚨 The #Pravdanetwork—a Russia-linked disinformation operation—has infiltrated #Wikipedia, AI chatbots, and #X, spreading pro-Kremlin narratives globally.
@vchatelet.bsky.social & @checkfirst.network
reveal the scale of this content pollution: bit.ly/3R6XW9l
Last weekend I tried to get a correction from Matt Taibbi on a basic “mistake”: claiming a report I wrote was source of the stat that 126MM people saw Russian influence op content on FB. Rather than correct, he fought me. He made more “mistakes”. Hilarity ensued.
open.substack.com/pub/reneedir...
Two excellent lecturers, Ira Kherkheulidze & Giorgi Tsertsvadze, have been dismissed from Tbilisi State University on political grounds. Both are exceptional educators and principled citizens. Academic freedom... [1/2]
10.03.2025 20:06 — 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.
He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
Now BBC reports both ships on fire and crew abandoning ships. FU. Hope they make it...
Great reporting from BBC here:
www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...
From Marine Traffic, here's the moment of the crash between the oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate and a cargo vessel MV Solong. Live updates here www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
10.03.2025 13:08 — 👍 182 🔁 42 💬 15 📌 11
The American aerospace company Maxar Technologies has disabled Ukraine's access to its satellite images.
mil.in.ua/uk/news/maxa...
Reports in the Ukrainian press that Maxar had cut of the Ukrainians access to Maxar imagery, including commercial imagery, at the request of the US administration
mil.in.ua/uk/news/maxa...
🧵My former world literature lecturer was arrested near Rustaveli yesterday while sitting in front of the Tbilisi Opera, reading a book after his university lectures.
07.03.2025 08:15 — 👍 92 🔁 44 💬 4 📌 3March 7 marks 100 continuous days of protests in 🇬🇪.
There will be no end to the all-encompassing crisis without new, free & fair elections, and the release of the regime prisoners. 1/
Seize the ship then.
05.03.2025 12:41 — 👍 157 🔁 14 💬 11 📌 2On attend encore que Sizonenko enjoigne une modification de la constitution ukrainienne 🤡
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This.
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