Grim Creeper
@grimcreeper.bsky.social
The Ork Weeper Reaper #NAFO
We shall fight in Ukraine, we shall fight in the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall never surrender!
We shall fight in Ukraine, we shall fight in the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall never surrender!
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Europe’s enemies didn’t invent its divisions, they learned how to monetise them.
That’s the challenge every democracy faces now.
Europe’s enemies didn’t invent its divisions, they learned how to monetise them.
That’s the challenge every democracy faces now.
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Europe’s enemies didn’t invent its divisions, they learned how to monetise them.
That’s the challenge every democracy faces now.
Europe’s enemies didn’t invent its divisions, they learned how to monetise them.
That’s the challenge every democracy faces now.
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In 2026, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands vote.
By then the EU’s case against X should conclude.
Those outcomes will decide whether democracy can still set the rules for digital power.
In 2026, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands vote.
By then the EU’s case against X should conclude.
Those outcomes will decide whether democracy can still set the rules for digital power.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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In 2026, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands vote.
By then the EU’s case against X should conclude.
Those outcomes will decide whether democracy can still set the rules for digital power.
In 2026, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands vote.
By then the EU’s case against X should conclude.
Those outcomes will decide whether democracy can still set the rules for digital power.
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The task ahead:
– transparent algorithms
– disclosure of political funding
– media-literacy that matches 21st-century propaganda.
Europe can’t legislate sincerity, but it can rebuild the conditions for truth to compete.
The task ahead:
– transparent algorithms
– disclosure of political funding
– media-literacy that matches 21st-century propaganda.
Europe can’t legislate sincerity, but it can rebuild the conditions for truth to compete.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The task ahead:
– transparent algorithms
– disclosure of political funding
– media-literacy that matches 21st-century propaganda.
Europe can’t legislate sincerity, but it can rebuild the conditions for truth to compete.
The task ahead:
– transparent algorithms
– disclosure of political funding
– media-literacy that matches 21st-century propaganda.
Europe can’t legislate sincerity, but it can rebuild the conditions for truth to compete.
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Moscow no longer needs to invent every lie.
Disillusioned Europeans and transatlantic culture warriors now spread them for free.
Moscow no longer needs to invent every lie.
Disillusioned Europeans and transatlantic culture warriors now spread them for free.
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Moscow no longer needs to invent every lie.
Disillusioned Europeans and transatlantic culture warriors now spread them for free.
Moscow no longer needs to invent every lie.
Disillusioned Europeans and transatlantic culture warriors now spread them for free.
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Europe’s unity rests on shared facts and institutions.
Both are under siege from Russia’s operations, from imported populism, and from unregulated platforms chasing engagement over truth.
Europe’s unity rests on shared facts and institutions.
Both are under siege from Russia’s operations, from imported populism, and from unregulated platforms chasing engagement over truth.
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Europe’s unity rests on shared facts and institutions.
Both are under siege from Russia’s operations, from imported populism, and from unregulated platforms chasing engagement over truth.
Europe’s unity rests on shared facts and institutions.
Both are under siege from Russia’s operations, from imported populism, and from unregulated platforms chasing engagement over truth.
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Each scandal alone looks local.
Together, they form a lattice of ideology and money running from Moscow’s proxies to Europe’s nationalist flank.
Each scandal alone looks local.
Together, they form a lattice of ideology and money running from Moscow’s proxies to Europe’s nationalist flank.
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Each scandal alone looks local.
Together, they form a lattice of ideology and money running from Moscow’s proxies to Europe’s nationalist flank.
Each scandal alone looks local.
Together, they form a lattice of ideology and money running from Moscow’s proxies to Europe’s nationalist flank.
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🗳️ Europe’s accomplices:
– France’s RN owed a €9 m Russian bank loan until 2023.
– Italy’s Lega discussed Russian oil kickbacks.
– Austria’s FPÖ courted a fake oligarch’s niece.
– Germany’s AfD now probed over Voice of Europe ties.
🗳️ Europe’s accomplices:
– France’s RN owed a €9 m Russian bank loan until 2023.
– Italy’s Lega discussed Russian oil kickbacks.
– Austria’s FPÖ courted a fake oligarch’s niece.
– Germany’s AfD now probed over Voice of Europe ties.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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🗳️ Europe’s accomplices:
– France’s RN owed a €9 m Russian bank loan until 2023.
– Italy’s Lega discussed Russian oil kickbacks.
– Austria’s FPÖ courted a fake oligarch’s niece.
– Germany’s AfD now probed over Voice of Europe ties.
🗳️ Europe’s accomplices:
– France’s RN owed a €9 m Russian bank loan until 2023.
– Italy’s Lega discussed Russian oil kickbacks.
– Austria’s FPÖ courted a fake oligarch’s niece.
– Germany’s AfD now probed over Voice of Europe ties.
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🧩 These trends overlap:
State propaganda.
Populist validation.
Platform deregulation.
Each reinforces the other, producing a Europe more polarised and easier to manipulate.
🧩 These trends overlap:
State propaganda.
Populist validation.
Platform deregulation.
Each reinforces the other, producing a Europe more polarised and easier to manipulate.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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🧩 These trends overlap:
State propaganda.
Populist validation.
Platform deregulation.
Each reinforces the other, producing a Europe more polarised and easier to manipulate.
🧩 These trends overlap:
State propaganda.
Populist validation.
Platform deregulation.
Each reinforces the other, producing a Europe more polarised and easier to manipulate.
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Milliseconds matter online.
Throttling news and hiding headlines cripple credible media while boosting anonymous propaganda.
For Russia’s trolls, that’s free oxygen.
Milliseconds matter online.
Throttling news and hiding headlines cripple credible media while boosting anonymous propaganda.
For Russia’s trolls, that’s free oxygen.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Milliseconds matter online.
Throttling news and hiding headlines cripple credible media while boosting anonymous propaganda.
For Russia’s trolls, that’s free oxygen.
Milliseconds matter online.
Throttling news and hiding headlines cripple credible media while boosting anonymous propaganda.
For Russia’s trolls, that’s free oxygen.
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The EU opened a full Digital Services Act case against X.
By mid-2024, regulators found “likely breaches” on disinformation control and researcher access.
The investigation is still live.
The EU opened a full Digital Services Act case against X.
By mid-2024, regulators found “likely breaches” on disinformation control and researcher access.
The investigation is still live.
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The EU opened a full Digital Services Act case against X.
By mid-2024, regulators found “likely breaches” on disinformation control and researcher access.
The investigation is still live.
The EU opened a full Digital Services Act case against X.
By mid-2024, regulators found “likely breaches” on disinformation control and researcher access.
The investigation is still live.
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In 2022, Musk’s X suspended journalists covering him, condemned by the UN and EU.
By 2023, links to outlets like Reuters and The New York Times were deliberately slowed.
Headlines disappeared from link cards.
In 2022, Musk’s X suspended journalists covering him, condemned by the UN and EU.
By 2023, links to outlets like Reuters and The New York Times were deliberately slowed.
Headlines disappeared from link cards.
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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In 2022, Musk’s X suspended journalists covering him, condemned by the UN and EU.
By 2023, links to outlets like Reuters and The New York Times were deliberately slowed.
Headlines disappeared from link cards.
In 2022, Musk’s X suspended journalists covering him, condemned by the UN and EU.
By 2023, links to outlets like Reuters and The New York Times were deliberately slowed.
Headlines disappeared from link cards.
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🛰️ Then came X.
Elon Musk promised “absolute free speech.”
Within months, moderation collapsed and verified ticks went on sale.
🛰️ Then came X.
Elon Musk promised “absolute free speech.”
Within months, moderation collapsed and verified ticks went on sale.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🛰️ Then came X.
Elon Musk promised “absolute free speech.”
Within months, moderation collapsed and verified ticks went on sale.
🛰️ Then came X.
Elon Musk promised “absolute free speech.”
Within months, moderation collapsed and verified ticks went on sale.
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Trump’s praise for Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen gave Europe’s far right moral licence.
Steve Bannon’s “Movement” tried to unite nationalist parties before the 2019 EU vote.
Trump’s praise for Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen gave Europe’s far right moral licence.
Steve Bannon’s “Movement” tried to unite nationalist parties before the 2019 EU vote.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Trump’s praise for Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen gave Europe’s far right moral licence.
Steve Bannon’s “Movement” tried to unite nationalist parties before the 2019 EU vote.
Trump’s praise for Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen gave Europe’s far right moral licence.
Steve Bannon’s “Movement” tried to unite nationalist parties before the 2019 EU vote.
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Trump-era Justice Department seized journalists’ phone records; his appointees politicised U.S. global-media outlets once trusted in Europe.
Those attacks on truth echo here.
Trump-era Justice Department seized journalists’ phone records; his appointees politicised U.S. global-media outlets once trusted in Europe.
Those attacks on truth echo here.
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Trump-era Justice Department seized journalists’ phone records; his appointees politicised U.S. global-media outlets once trusted in Europe.
Those attacks on truth echo here.
Trump-era Justice Department seized journalists’ phone records; his appointees politicised U.S. global-media outlets once trusted in Europe.
Those attacks on truth echo here.
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🇺🇸 Across the Atlantic, norms eroded too.
During the Trump years, the press became “the enemy of the people.”
Reporters Sans Frontières recorded a historic fall in U.S. press-freedom rankings.
🇺🇸 Across the Atlantic, norms eroded too.
During the Trump years, the press became “the enemy of the people.”
Reporters Sans Frontières recorded a historic fall in U.S. press-freedom rankings.
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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🇺🇸 Across the Atlantic, norms eroded too.
During the Trump years, the press became “the enemy of the people.”
Reporters Sans Frontières recorded a historic fall in U.S. press-freedom rankings.
🇺🇸 Across the Atlantic, norms eroded too.
During the Trump years, the press became “the enemy of the people.”
Reporters Sans Frontières recorded a historic fall in U.S. press-freedom rankings.
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France, Britain and Czechia have all tied GRU units to poisonings, explosions and cyber-attacks.
One state, one strategy: weaken Europe’s unity and will.
France, Britain and Czechia have all tied GRU units to poisonings, explosions and cyber-attacks.
One state, one strategy: weaken Europe’s unity and will.
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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France, Britain and Czechia have all tied GRU units to poisonings, explosions and cyber-attacks.
One state, one strategy: weaken Europe’s unity and will.
France, Britain and Czechia have all tied GRU units to poisonings, explosions and cyber-attacks.
One state, one strategy: weaken Europe’s unity and will.
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In 2024, the EU sanctioned Voice of Europe, a Prague outlet covertly financed by oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk.
He funnelled money to European politicians to spread Kremlin narratives.
In 2024, the EU sanctioned Voice of Europe, a Prague outlet covertly financed by oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk.
He funnelled money to European politicians to spread Kremlin narratives.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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In 2024, the EU sanctioned Voice of Europe, a Prague outlet covertly financed by oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk.
He funnelled money to European politicians to spread Kremlin narratives.
In 2024, the EU sanctioned Voice of Europe, a Prague outlet covertly financed by oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk.
He funnelled money to European politicians to spread Kremlin narratives.
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The EU’s 2024–25 reports describe “Doppelgänger”: fake versions of
European news sites pushing anti-EU, anti-NATO stories, timed to elections.
The EU’s 2024–25 reports describe “Doppelgänger”: fake versions of
European news sites pushing anti-EU, anti-NATO stories, timed to elections.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The EU’s 2024–25 reports describe “Doppelgänger”: fake versions of
European news sites pushing anti-EU, anti-NATO stories, timed to elections.
The EU’s 2024–25 reports describe “Doppelgänger”: fake versions of
European news sites pushing anti-EU, anti-NATO stories, timed to elections.
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🇷🇺 Moscow’s long game:
EU diplomats call it FIMI — Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.
It’s not theory; it’s documented fact.
🇷🇺 Moscow’s long game:
EU diplomats call it FIMI — Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.
It’s not theory; it’s documented fact.
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🇷🇺 Moscow’s long game:
EU diplomats call it FIMI — Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.
It’s not theory; it’s documented fact.
🇷🇺 Moscow’s long game:
EU diplomats call it FIMI — Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.
It’s not theory; it’s documented fact.
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Europe’s information space is now a battlefield where foreign intelligence, populist politics and unregulated technology collide.
Europe’s information space is now a battlefield where foreign intelligence, populist politics and unregulated technology collide.
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Europe’s information space is now a battlefield where foreign intelligence, populist politics and unregulated technology collide.
Europe’s information space is now a battlefield where foreign intelligence, populist politics and unregulated technology collide.