Despite EU sanctions, Western AI agents serve Russian propaganda on demand

Bad news! How Putin the Terrible wins over naive Westerners!

"... The goal was to determine whether the bots could circumvent the EU sanctions imposed on these Russian state outlets. All the outlets listed in the prompt were sanctioned by the EU in 2022 and 2024, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. They have been banned from broadcasting in the EU because of their role in the Kremlin’s propaganda apparatus.

The answer is clear: yes, public chatbots can access these websites and redistribute their content to users in France. They provide ready-made answers and will even produce press reviews when asked. ...

ChatGPT and Grok emerged as the leading bots for circumventing EU sanctions. They produced comprehensive summaries of articles on international news, retrieving headlines and sharing links and verbatim excerpts without consistently mentioning that the media outlets in question were under EU sanctions. ...

When given the same instructions as its competitors, Google’s chatbot Gemini proved much more reluctant to comply. During an initial test, Gemini refused to share links because of the EU sanctions. It nevertheless provided a summary of the requested information accompanied by links to the original sources, including RT posts on VK. ..."

Despite EU sanctions, AI agents serve Russian propaganda on demand | RSF "When prompted, the chatbots Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Vibe retrieve content produced by Russian state media outlets sanctioned by the European Union (EU) and, therefore, banned from broadcasting in Europe. This Reporters Without Borders (RSF) investigation reveals the extent to which generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools facilitate the circumvention of these restrictions."

30 major US research universities ordered by the Department of War to audit foreign research partnerships

Good news! From time to time such audits are necessary to deal with the enemies of open and free societies!

Not only capitalists are greedy and willing to sell anything (incl. the infamous rope to hang them)! 😊

"The US Department of War (DoW) has ordered 30 major research universities, including Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to audit and report on their financial and research collaborations with foreign institutions by the end of the month or risk losing federal funding. ..."

30 US universities ordered to audit foreign research partnerships | News | Chemistry World (behind paywall) "Pentagon says review must be finished by the end of August to maintain federal funding"

Cuba is Incubating Lefty Terror Attacks in America

Why is Cuba still a one-party ruled communist country!

When will Cuba libre finally become reality!!!

Latest since the serious Cuba Missile Crisis of 1962, communist Cuba has been a national security issue for the US. and exporter of communism around the world and in particular in Latin America!

"The State Department published a damning report documenting the Cuban communist regime’s nefarious activities in America.

Among the revelations: Cuba has been training over 10,000 American left-wing activists and funding dissent in this country. They have the ability to organize disruptive demonstrations at most military bases and immigration facilities at a day’s notice. ...

Former Venceremos brigadier Karen Bass managed to get elected as mayor of America’s second-largest city. She has advanced causes favorable to the Cuban regime, such as calling to lift sanctions on the communist regime. When the Cuban tyrant Fidel Castro died, she mourned him as “Comandante en Jefe” — commander in chief. ...

Isra Hirsi, daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), made a trip to Havana in March. She thanked the People’s Forum for organizing the trip, despite concerns that the organization may be a Chinese Communist Party propaganda arm. People’s Forum denies any wrongdoing.

Some Cuban operatives aren’t as overtly revolutionary and work through more conventional political and professional channels, including nonprofit institutions and political organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America.

Since 2019, the DSA has expanded its activism related to Cuba. The party has intensified this engagement during the second Trump administration. ...

The DSA sent 40 rank-and-file and governing members to Havana. They met with communist officials, including Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Cossío Domínguez. The DSA also participated in the trip that sent Hirsi and far-left streamer Hasan Piker — who recently called Mao Zedong “one of the great leaders of this world” — to Cuba.

Fortunately, the Trump administration has accelerated its efforts against the communist-influence network in America. A federal court is investigating far-left China-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a chief financier of the nonprofit network supporting communist activities.

Besides the People’s Forum, Singham is a major contributor to Code Pink. His wife, Jodie Evans, is the co-founder. Its leadership includes some of the country’s most prominent pro-Cuba activists, including Medea Benjamin, Claudia De la Cruz and Vivien Lesnik Weisman. A grand jury is reportedly investigating whether Singham’s activities may have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act. ...

The Justice Department is also seeking the extradition of another far-left financier, James “Fergie” Chambers, who is living in Spain. ..."

Cuba Must Pay for Incubating Lefty Terror Attacks in America

Cuba must pay for incubating far-left terror attacks and dissidents across the United States

Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism (original report, 100 pages, no executive summary)

Ilsa Hirsi, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), stayed in a 5-star hotel during her trip to Havana.

The ongoing data center scaremongering in Western countries

Western news media almost daily spread demagoguery about data centers! It is mostly alarmism and hysteria!

Who is behind or fueling this disinformation too? China, Russia, Iran ...?

I bet electricity consumption of data centers will go down as time goes on due to better, more efficient chips etc. In the near future perhaps more biological brain inspired data centers will be developed and so on.

Water consumption of data centers can be fairly easily controlled e.g. by closed systems and so on.

What about superconductivity and nuclear fusion? Maybe with the help of machine learning & AI we will finally be able to harness these two in the very near future!

Again, what the heck is this noise/bickering and irrationality all about! As if medieval superstition still runs our lives!

We are living now at the beginning of the second quarter of the 21st century!

China still generates almost half of its electricity from coal during the first six months of 2026

China has built coal fired power plants by the hundreds over the past 10-20 or so!

While the Communist Party of China has actively spread disinformation and funded green energy activists etc. to undermine the West with the global warming/climate change hoax. The most prominent, naive victim: Germany, which shut down its coal fired power plants and working nuclear power plants!

Doomslayer: Progress Roundup - by Malcolm Cochran

China's Anti-Rafale Smear Campaign Exposed with Palki Sharma

Recommendable! I bet Chinese smear campaigns affect other (Western) countries too!

State Department shutters Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office

Serious stuff! Will there any be any substitute? Could this be a mistake by President Trump?

How massive are foreign influence and disinformation campaigns by Russia and China in Western countries? I am afraid, the public is left in the dark! E.g. how much money are Russia and China donating to divisive political activism in Western countries? I bet a lot!

"A small office in the State Department tasked with monitoring foreign disinformation threats was shuttered Wednesday by the Trump administration, the latest in a series of steps the White House has taken since January to dismantle entities that monitor foreign influence and information campaigns, or respond to them. As that effort continues, experts say, the United States and audiences around the world could be left virtually defenseless against increasing Chinese and Russian efforts to turn global populations against the United States. 

But that’s not how the administration sees it. “Over the last decade, Americans have been slandered, fired, charged, and even jailed for simply voicing their opinions. ... the closure of the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference hub, known as R/Fimi. 

R/Fimi was a remnant of the Global Engagement Center, which was created in 2016 by the Obama administration to counter Russian disinformation efforts. Rubio said the GEC “actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving,” ...

The closure is only the latest move in a pattern that has been building for months. In February, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the dissolution of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force—the unit dedicated to investigating foreign disinformation and influence campaigns (including election interference) ..."

Shuttering of State office leaves US largely defenseless against foreign influence warfare, officials say - Defense One "‘This is how we lose big wars,’ one former researcher said of the larger effort to eliminate or dismantle organizations that monitor and counter disinformation."