Ritter Sport announced it had two reasons for staying in Russia. Jobs and children. Jobs first. The CEO in 2024 said leaving would cost two hundred posts at Waldenbuch, and a family firm stands by its workers. Then in April 2026 the company ousted him and cut nearly two hundred posts, its first layoffs in … Continue reading Why Ritter Sport Won’t Quit Supplying Russians at War
YouTube has been surfacing a LOT of synthetic war content lately, and the attribution question deserves more care than the platform gives it. The @BenHodgesUpdates channel is not Hodges, not affiliated with him, and the production cadence is impossible for genuine interviews. Whether it runs for ad revenue or for Moscow, or both, matters less … Continue reading @BenHodgesUpdates: How to Spot YouTube Spreading Russian AI Propaganda
On the morning of 8 June a substation burned in Reutlingen and roughly 30,000 people lost power. Within hours, before the fire was out, anonymous Sicherheitskreise had handed the dpa a propagandist decree. Links. Left-extremist. The police at the actual lectern said something honest instead. They were investigating in every direction, a technical fault among … Continue reading Reutlingen Grid Burned: Germany’s Münchhausen Minister Talks Left While Russia Works the Right
The thing that Russia has keeping it relevant in the world is the remnants of the KGB, led by Putin (ex-KGB). One leaked message sets out one of the goals of this kind of information warfare: helping Russia “maintain the image of a superpower” on the world stage. “The more Russia participates in active influence … Continue reading “Image of Superpower”: Russian Information Warfare Chat Leaked