@SofiePelsmakers@RIBABooks@edbarsley Can we start talking about building more canals? water ways and transport for flooding ? And prevent drought by creating potential storage capacity. Why isn’t this a project? If you want love in the conversations, people love canals ❤️❤️❤️
@AaronBastani I know it felt hard not to rise to it. Such lies. Let’s share the receipts. The only thing they spent money on is the legal with persecuting members.
An Israeli firm has interfered in elections in Scotland, New York, France, Angola and Togo, using large numbers of fake social media accounts to target politicians who have criticised Israel’s genocide in Gaza, French authorities have found.
France’s disinformation watchdog, Viginum, said a private, Israel-based company named BlackCore had coordinated hundreds of accounts to post negative comments about Scottish first minister John Swinney in the run-up to the Scottish parliament elections in May.
Swinney is one of the few UK politicians to have described Israel’s mass killings in Gaza as a genocide, saying last year that “it can’t be disputed”. He also led a ban on arms companies receiving financial aid if they supply Israel's military.
Viginum said Swinney, the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) and the devolved government in Edinburgh were targeted between 6 January and 8 May, with BlackCore using at least 256 coordinated accounts to post around 1,400 comments.
Swinney was targeted 652 times, the SNP 338 and the Scottish government 112.
An SNP spokesperson said: “Over the course of the Scottish election campaign, the SNP observed that posts across our social media platforms were subject to an unprecedented level of negative reactions and comments from accounts which appeared to be AI-generated bots.”
“Any interference in our democratic process must be thoroughly investigated,” they added.
Ross Greer, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, called on foreign secretary Yvette Cooper to summon the Israeli ambassador over the scandal. “Or will she continue Labour's tradition of letting them [Israel] away with absolutely anything?” he wrote on X.
BlackCore has described itself as “an elite influence, cyber and technology company built for the modern era of information warfare” that has worked with governments and political campaigns on “cutting-edge strategies, advanced tools and robust security to shape narratives”.
Viginum chief Marc-Antoine Brillant said last week that BlackCore had meddled in French municipal elections but its activities were “not limited” to France.
Brillant did not say who had been targeted in last year’s New York City mayoral election, but winner Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly called Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide. Before his election, Mamdani said he would enforce an international arrest warrant against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were he to travel to New York.
@AaronBastani Yes this IS about the destruction of Europe for a one world gov, they want. All roads serve this idea. Some people watched too much Star Wars
So, I see there’s yet *another* attempt by Danny Cohen to get Misan Harriman sacked. First the Times, now the Telegraph.
Thing is I’m sure these are his own views & not those of his employer, a billionaire who bought a TV station at Netanyahu’s request.
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@rorysutherland@mmt_lvt@WarGit It was only 6 yrs ago, that it wasn’t the case.a cousin,on housing design wrap at new development put, one single black guy on the wall, as pedestrians, it qwas pulled as not aspirational, he said what about John Boyega.
@AaronBastani Build a canal network, oval, north to south, to store water, help with nature and stretch out lovely places to live on and next to the water
@nisten@NPCollapse It doesn’t mean we don’t have general Ai, at that functional level we a can have all
The function etc without the extraction risk and mind melting esoteric manipulation.
@AaronBastani Offfs, it’s been so appalling that from being a regular listener for 40yrs, I had to switch it off in last 10yrs, since Corbyn, since something else, the programming and curation , too annoying , manipulated versions
@AlanJSmit@LiamHalligan ? Schools would be closing anyway, because the population is reducing? Isn’t it? Am I wrong ? He sounds very confident but if he’s not applying basics ? Can he be trusted?