Victor Ilie
@victorilie.bsky.social
Investigative reporter
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Încă din 2023 mai mulți programatori au pus la punct o rețea de sute de pagini de Facebook și publicații care au încălzit votanții pentru ofensiva extremistă de pe TikTok din campania electorală. Infrastructura lor i-a susținut pe candidații suveraniști și a încălcat regulamentele Meta și TikTok.
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Încă din 2023 mai mulți programatori au pus la punct o rețea de sute de pagini de Facebook și publicații care au încălzit votanții pentru ofensiva extremistă de pe TikTok din campania electorală. Infrastructura lor i-a susținut pe candidații suveraniști și a încălcat regulamentele Meta și TikTok.
Here in this graph, you can see how many pro-Russian narrative-spreading X accounts were created per day, which then surprisingly followed the far-right presidential candidate Călin Georgescu.
#disinformation #cib #fascistsofinternet
#disinformation #cib #fascistsofinternet
September 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Here in this graph, you can see how many pro-Russian narrative-spreading X accounts were created per day, which then surprisingly followed the far-right presidential candidate Călin Georgescu.
#disinformation #cib #fascistsofinternet
#disinformation #cib #fascistsofinternet
📣🇷🇺Propaganda rusă de stat i-a ajutat pe europarlamentarii AUR în demersul lor de a o îndepărta de la șefia Comisiei Europene pe Ursula von der Leyen. Rușii au fezandat internetul și au pregătit opinia publică pentru moțiunea AUR încă din martie, cu trei luni în avans. 📡📈
Cum i-a transformat statul rus în eroi pe extremiștii AUR
Propaganda rusă de stat i-a ajutat pe europarlamentarii AUR în demersul lor de a o îndepărta de la șefia Comisiei Europene pe Ursula von der Leyen.
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July 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
📣🇷🇺Propaganda rusă de stat i-a ajutat pe europarlamentarii AUR în demersul lor de a o îndepărta de la șefia Comisiei Europene pe Ursula von der Leyen. Rușii au fezandat internetul și au pregătit opinia publică pentru moțiunea AUR încă din martie, cu trei luni în avans. 📡📈
🧑💻📡 Organizăm un curs de investigații OSINT pentru donatorii Drepturi și Strâmbe. Primul modul e dedicat tuturor celor care ne susțin financiar, iar în a doua parte vom lucra împreună cu cei mai pasionați dintre voi și vom investiga un subiect de interes public despre dezinformare online. 🤜🤛
Vara nemulțumirii noastre
Un vicepremier acasă la un traficant de cocaină, un președinte vs legea care condamnă organizațiile legionare, măsuri de austeritate care ne împing spre extremism. Plus o invitație la un curs de OSINT
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July 19, 2025 at 5:48 AM
🧑💻📡 Organizăm un curs de investigații OSINT pentru donatorii Drepturi și Strâmbe. Primul modul e dedicat tuturor celor care ne susțin financiar, iar în a doua parte vom lucra împreună cu cei mai pasionați dintre voi și vom investiga un subiect de interes public despre dezinformare online. 🤜🤛
Russians spotted spreading shit online by @checkfirst.network and @reset.tech 😍🤢😍🤢😍🤢
🔴 NEW REPORT
Alongside @reset.tech, we publish our third investigation into Operation Overload. ⤵️
Alongside @reset.tech, we publish our third investigation into Operation Overload. ⤵️
July 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Russians spotted spreading shit online by @checkfirst.network and @reset.tech 😍🤢😍🤢😍🤢
Care-i treaba cu propaganda televizată de la RTV. Nimic nu-i pe gratis, mai nimic nu-i jurnalsim.
#RomanianElections #Corruption
#RomanianElections #Corruption
Peste 90.000 emailuri interne de la România TV scot la suprafață istoria propagandei pro-Ponta și de ce este toxic jurnalismul făcut la comandă
Suntem Luiza Vasiliu și Victor Ilie, doi jurnaliști care scriu de-o juma de viață despre abuzuri, corupție, infractori și nedreptăți.
open.substack.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Care-i treaba cu propaganda televizată de la RTV. Nimic nu-i pe gratis, mai nimic nu-i jurnalsim.
#RomanianElections #Corruption
#RomanianElections #Corruption
My series on the Russian slow burning influence op in Romania was quoted in @opinion.bloomberg.com
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www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
JD Vance Owes Romania an Apology
If he bothered with evidence, he’d see institutions under attack and in need of US support.
www.bloomberg.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
My series on the Russian slow burning influence op in Romania was quoted in @opinion.bloomberg.com
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www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
🛰️📡🛰️🕸️🛰️📡🛰️
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Romania: Freelance Journalist Victor Ilie under Surveillance by Anti-Corruption Authority
Find out more 👉 go.coe.int/lkOMY
Alert submitted by the IPI @globalfreemedia.bsky.social
#EuropeForFreeMedia
Photo: OCCRP
Find out more 👉 go.coe.int/lkOMY
Alert submitted by the IPI @globalfreemedia.bsky.social
#EuropeForFreeMedia
Photo: OCCRP
April 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reposted by Victor Ilie
“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”
March 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”
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⚡️Russia seeks full control of occupied Ukrainian regions in talks with US, media reports.
A Kremlin-linked official told the Moscow Times that Vladimir Putin cannot afford to lose these territories politically, and Russia intends to solidify its grip on them at any cost.
A Kremlin-linked official told the Moscow Times that Vladimir Putin cannot afford to lose these territories politically, and Russia intends to solidify its grip on them at any cost.
Russia seeks full control of occupied Ukrainian regions in talks with US, media reports
A Kremlin-linked official told the Moscow Times that Vladimir Putin cannot afford to lose these territories politically, and Russia intends to solidify its grip on them at any cost.
kyivindependent.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
⚡️Russia seeks full control of occupied Ukrainian regions in talks with US, media reports.
A Kremlin-linked official told the Moscow Times that Vladimir Putin cannot afford to lose these territories politically, and Russia intends to solidify its grip on them at any cost.
A Kremlin-linked official told the Moscow Times that Vladimir Putin cannot afford to lose these territories politically, and Russia intends to solidify its grip on them at any cost.
See you in Perugia @journalismfestival.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
See you in Perugia @journalismfestival.com
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social simply has lived the dream of all the journalists
“A mack-truck-sized breach”: @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social discusses being accidentally added to a Trump administration group chat planning military strikes.
Read more in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/0VASTR78
Read more in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/0VASTR78
A Conversation With Jeffrey Goldberg About His Extraordinary Scoop
How The Atlantic’s editor in chief found himself in a group chat with Trump-administration officials who were planning an attack on Yemen
theatln.tc
March 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social simply has lived the dream of all the journalists
Thanks a lot for your support @globalfreemedia.bsky.social
🇷🇴#Romania: IPI and press freedom partners today wrote to Romanian authorities and the EU Commission to raise the case of journalist Victor Ilie, who faced physical surveillance & wiretapping by a local branch of National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA).
Romania: Answers needed over surveillance of investigative journalist
The International Press Institute (IPI) is today joined by the undersigned international media freedom organisations today raise concerns over recent revelations about the physical surveillance and…
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March 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Thanks a lot for your support @globalfreemedia.bsky.social
Here is the story for Balkan Insight about how I’ve been under surveillance for two months just for being a journalist. I am proud I caught 4/6 operatives, tho they identified two key sources.
For more insights about being a journalist in the Balkans, check this out
For more insights about being a journalist in the Balkans, check this out
Becoming the Story: How Journalists Are Being Targeted by Romanian Law Enforcement
BIRN investigations have uncovered how journalists conducting public-interest investigations in Romania were put under surveillance by their targets with the help of law enforcement.
balkaninsight.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Here is the story for Balkan Insight about how I’ve been under surveillance for two months just for being a journalist. I am proud I caught 4/6 operatives, tho they identified two key sources.
For more insights about being a journalist in the Balkans, check this out
For more insights about being a journalist in the Balkans, check this out
Reposted by Victor Ilie
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...
mil.in.ua/uk/news/maxa...
Maxar відключив Україні доступ до своїх супутникових знімків
Американська компанія Maxar Technologies відключила доступ до своїх комерційних супутникових знімків користувачам з України
mil.in.ua
March 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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...
mil.in.ua/uk/news/maxa...
You may like my investigation on Adnow, a Russian state connected online advertising company that pumped up a lot of money in divisive ads for far-right publishers
Pe urmele banilor din reclamele rusești. Drumul de la Ministerul Apărării din Rusia la date personale colectate din România - Snoop
O rețea de publicitate online cu rădăcini rusești alimentează propaganda extremistă și fraudele financiare, folosind România ca teren pentru colectarea de date și manipularea opiniei publice. Din spat...
snoop.ro
March 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
You may like my investigation on Adnow, a Russian state connected online advertising company that pumped up a lot of money in divisive ads for far-right publishers
Reposted by Victor Ilie
“Indulging the Tate brothers to own the libs is an act of pure nihilism,” Helen Lewis writes. “Denouncing them should be the easiest test of moral seriousness imaginable, and yet it’s a test that many online influencers are failing in real time.”
When You’re MAGA, They Let You Do It
Why Trumpworld is just fine with Andrew Tate’s violent misogyny.
www.theatlantic.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“Indulging the Tate brothers to own the libs is an act of pure nihilism,” Helen Lewis writes. “Denouncing them should be the easiest test of moral seriousness imaginable, and yet it’s a test that many online influencers are failing in real time.”
It’s called second hand trauma :(
I'm struggling to get over what we saw today.
The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.
That's traumatizing.
The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.
That's traumatizing.
March 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It’s called second hand trauma :(
Reposted by Victor Ilie
Trump and Vance would NEVER, EVER, talk to Putin like that.
And everyone knows it.
And everyone knows it.
February 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Trump and Vance would NEVER, EVER, talk to Putin like that.
And everyone knows it.
And everyone knows it.
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Donald Trump is Putin’s puppet. He demonstrated that in televised living color in our Oval Office today by disgracefully attacking a democratic leader suffering a murderous invasion by the Russian thug. What a stain on America. Slava Ukraini.
February 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Donald Trump is Putin’s puppet. He demonstrated that in televised living color in our Oval Office today by disgracefully attacking a democratic leader suffering a murderous invasion by the Russian thug. What a stain on America. Slava Ukraini.
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#EpsteinGate “shows how reliance on influencer-driven media can completely backfire. A bunch of dubious influencers overhyping a pile of regurgitated, stale info only further underscores the need for rigorous, investigative journalism that actually holds power to account”- @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
The Epstein files influencer 'clusterfuck'
Dubious influencers over-hyping stale, regurgitated information shows how reliance on influencer-driven media can backfire, even on the right.
www.usermag.co
February 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#EpsteinGate “shows how reliance on influencer-driven media can completely backfire. A bunch of dubious influencers overhyping a pile of regurgitated, stale info only further underscores the need for rigorous, investigative journalism that actually holds power to account”- @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
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⚡️ President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump held a 45-minute-long press briefing in the Oval Office that ended in a heated argument about American aid to Ukraine.
Zelensky, Trump get into heated argument while speaking with journalists in Oval Office
President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump held a 45-minute-long press briefing in the Oval Office that ended in a heated argument about American aid to Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
⚡️ President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump held a 45-minute-long press briefing in the Oval Office that ended in a heated argument about American aid to Ukraine.
Reposted by Victor Ilie
German parliament in race against time to sign off on new defence fund
German parliament in race against time to sign off on new defence fund
Friedrich Merz, expected to be next chancellor, has spoken of urgent need for ramped-up defence, but ‘blocking minority’ could form in future Bundestag
Germany’s outgoing parliament could be asked to sign off on a new defence fund in its final weeks as…
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
German parliament in race against time to sign off on new defence fund
Reposted by Victor Ilie
⚡️BREAKING: Kyiv, Washington reach agreement on minerals deal.
According to the Financial Times, Ukraine secured more favorable terms and framed the deal as a way to strengthen ties with the U.S.
According to the Financial Times, Ukraine secured more favorable terms and framed the deal as a way to strengthen ties with the U.S.
BREAKING: Kyiv, Washington reach agreement on minerals deal
According to the Financial Times, Ukraine secured more favorable terms and framed the deal as a way to strengthen ties with the U.S.
kyivindependent.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
⚡️BREAKING: Kyiv, Washington reach agreement on minerals deal.
According to the Financial Times, Ukraine secured more favorable terms and framed the deal as a way to strengthen ties with the U.S.
According to the Financial Times, Ukraine secured more favorable terms and framed the deal as a way to strengthen ties with the U.S.
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SUA-RO-RU: lobby, presiuni și minciuni
Istoria relațiilor româno-americane dintr-o bază de date care a apărut ca reacție la propaganda nazistă. Și reacțiile naziste din relațiile româno-americane de astăzi.
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February 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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