In Vienna, I took time to explain to diplomats, human rights campaigners, and civil society leaders how Russia’s African troll armies don’t just stir trouble locally but flood social media and diaspora channels with coordinated narratives designed to hit Europe where it hurts.
A lot of jokes from King Charles tonight.
“You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French”
In the Central African Republic, I was arrested and tortured on the orders of Russian mercenaries, held hostage by rebels & soldiers allied with them, all in an attempt to silence my reporting. Beyond physical dangers, Russian trolls have targeted me with disinformation campaigns
"We need to talk to each other as equals, not as a dependent child."
Czech President Petr Pavel says President Trump needs a reality check about his EU allies. Speaking to me at a @CNNPrima conference in Prague, Pavel told me just what he thinks the US President needs to hear:
This morning, the Greek Catholic Patriarchate issued a statement that all Easter festivities are cancelled in Syria following massacres of Christians by Islamists.
Notice how the media, podcaster class, and European leaders are completely silent.
Why?
🇬🇪This March, Georgian Dream completes its transition to a legal dictatorship.
Not a coup. Not a crackdown. A methodical dismantling of every check on power, done in plain sight while the West watches and does "nothing".
Georgia has not backslid.
It has crossed a threshold.
1/19
I am 28 years old, and I have lived my entire life suffocating under the Islamic Republic. I am writing this from the streets of Tehran, nearly a month into a war, and let me tell you a truth that the outside world cannot seem to comprehend:
My biggest fear right now is not the missiles.
My paralyzing, everyday terror is walking out my front door and hitting an IRGC checkpoint. It is the sickening knot in my stomach when the people I love step outside, knowing they might get dragged away by these monsters. Nothing is, was, or ever will be worse than this regime. You cannot convince me otherwise.
I am bleeding myself dry. I spend every ounce of my energy and money fighting this digital blackout, buying VPN after VPN just to force a connection through so I can be the voice of my people. And what do I see when I finally get online? Analysts sitting safely abroad telling us, *"You haven't tried all the paths yet!"*
Are you out of your minds?
The last "path" we took, over 40,000 of us didn't come home. On that path, a live bullet flew centimeters past my ear and right past the head of the most precious person in my life. I almost lost my best friend forever on that asphalt. What goddamn path is left to take?
Why do you trample on the spilled blood of my compatriots? Why do you spend your time fighting Crown Prince @PahlaviReza instead of listening to a crushed, bleeding nation?
Last night, I watched his speech. Do you know what I felt?
Relief.
The profound relief of hearing an honorable man echo the exact pain and demands of his people, with more precision than anyone else. And I felt pride. I felt absolute pride in the truth, structure, and beauty of his words.
Do you know how heartbreaking it is that pride is a foreign, alien emotion for an Iranian today? He gave that back to us.
We screamed his name with all our might. 40,000 of our fallen heroes signed his leadership with their own blood.
Stop fighting our choice.
Listen to us.
I came to Amsterdam with a goal: to tell Europe about Russian operations in Africa; how they are aimed at creating a migration crisis in Europe and undermine democracy in the EU. I came to ask for partnership with Africa to combat this. I am here for seriousness not complacency.
Ukraine’s Security Service has uncovered a large-scale Russian disinformation operation targeted at members of Hungarian community in Ukraine.
Russians made fake calls with threats to Hungarians posing as Ukrainian law enforcement.
The revealed operation demonstrates the scale of Russian interference in Hungarian elections on the side of Viktor Orban. It cannot be excluded that such action was also made in coordination with his campaign.
https://t.co/PDKmEQ9T7B
SBU odhalila akci Rusů prováděnou pomocí IP volání, když se volaným zobrazovalo ukrajinské tel. číslo. Volali na Zakarpatí etnickým Maďarům a vyhrožovali jim, jménem ukrajinských vlastenců nebo přímo jako policie, fyzickým násilím a žádali ať opustí Ukrajinu. Technickou analýzou
Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign"
From @FT
https://t.co/WHhATo1cl4
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Historian Timothy Snyder, on the pedophile führer's diabolical reason for attacking Iran. It has nothing to do with what most people think and everything to do with abolishing American democracy and rigging the 2026 midterm elections. 😳👇