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Los vigilantes en la mira: Tecnologías de vigilancia para el control político en Venezuela A pesar del cambio de liderazgo, la extensa infraestructura de vigilancia de Venezuela continúa estando completamente operacional.

Watch the Watchers: Surveillance technologies for political control in Venezuela Despite changes in leadership, Venezuela’s extensive surveillance infrastructure remains fully operational.

Banner: Stylized collage of screenshots from YouTube channels identified by the DFRLab as part of a coordinated network publishing AI-generated political content about Russia’s war in Ukraine. (Source: YouTube) On January 2, 2026, a YouTube channel called Expert News shared a video claiming the Ukrainian port in Mykolaiv has been fully destroyed by a Russian attack. The video had a catchy title, a bright thumbnail, with the channel name suggesting it provided the latest news.

Banner: Screenshot of NTR’s TikTok post containing the Romanian translation of a Multipolar Press article featuring an interview with Alexander Dugin on Sputnik TV, dedicated to the celebration of Defender of the Fatherland Day (23 February 2026), including a direct link to the original article.

BANNER: People use the flashlights on their phones as they demonstrate outside the parliament during an anti-government rally, in Sofia, Bulgaria, on December 10, 2025. (Source: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov) A Bulgarian website publishing fabricated or misleading articles generates revenue through the Adskeeper native ads platform, with a coordinated Bulgarian Facebook network driving traffic to the site.

Banner: New Delhi, Feb 19 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the CEO’s Roundtable Meeting at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, in New Delhi on Thursday. (DPR PMO/ANI Photo) Earlier this month, the world’s attention pivoted to New Delhi, where the India AI Impact Summit 2026 convened an extraordinary array of heads of state, policymakers, corporate leaders, and technologists.

AI cooperation under the shadow of China’s Digital Silk Road China’s Digital Silk Road has become a central channel through which Beijing engages Global South countries on digital infrastructure and, increasingly, artificial intelligence.

BANNER: Passers-by cross the German-Polish border crossing in July 2025. (Source: Patrick Pleul/dpa via Reuters Connect) Citizen patrols along Poland’s border with Germany triggered a surge in online anti-migration rhetoric, driven by inauthentic accounts and coordinated networks, and boosted by political figures and far-right networks. Inauthentic pages, AI-generated media, and copy-paste narratives were used to legitimize vigilante activity and frame the Polish government as weak.

Banner: An employee of an Internet broadband service provider providing internet connections in West Bengal, India, on 15 June 2021. (Source: Reuters via Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto) The US Development Finance Corporation (DFC) reauthorization is finally here as an amendment to the FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Building a common operational picture of FIMI: Using IMS to strengthen technical attribution and disruption Based on a months-long working group, this report operationalizes the Information Manipulation Set (IMS) framework to strengthen the analysis, attribution, and disruption of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI).