There is another report on the Czech elections and Babis on DW (pointing in the same direction as @petrescatraian@libranet.de’s comment in this thread if I am not mistaken):

… The country is expected to shift toward right-wing populism [if Babis is elected] and all that comes with it: euroskepticism, pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian positions, and agitation against refugees, the LGBTQ+ community and green policies … The undisputed frontrunner going into the election is the ANO party of right-wing populist ex-premier and billionaire Andrej Babis …

Some observers see the threat as real: “One of Putin’s dreams could soon be realized,” wrote Petr Honzejk of the Czech national daily newspaper Hospodarske noviny. “Should ANO come to power — whether on its own or in cooperation with the SPD, Stacilo! or the Motorists — our country will stop its defense against Russian disinformation and hybrid attacks.” …

I get your sentiment, but indifference isn’t a solution either, and am also not so sure whether it has no effect in the long run if more people openly criticize such actions. I don’t know whether something leads to a change, but doing nothing certainly won’t.

Czech Researchers Identify Nearly 300 Pro-Russian TikTok Accounts Ahead of Elections

Online Risk Labs, a Prague-based network of analysts, reported that it had identified 286 accounts spreading [pro-Russian] propaganda in the run-up to the October 3–4 parliamentary elections. The group estimates the accounts collectively draw between 5 and 9 million weekly views—an audience larger than the combined reach of the country’s mainstream party leaders.

The TikTok pages in question promoted the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD), polling around 13 percent, and the far-left Stačilo! party, which hovers just above the 5 percent threshold required for seats in parliament. Both parties call for Czechia’s withdrawal from NATO and the European Union.

What is this ‘council estate media’? The site is full of sensationalist and biased headlines often promoting conspiracies.

@RedPandaRaider@feddit.org

As Lutz Gullner, the Head of the European Economic and Trade Office in Taiwan, said this summer at an event in Taipei, the Taiwan-EU relationship “is based on trustworthy friendship and common values [such as the commitment to democracy, human rights and the rule of law]”.

The government of China clearly doesn’t share these values.

The German press agency dpa writes:

[Far-right lawmaker Maximilian] Krah, a controversial figure even within his own party, faces a separate investigation over accusations of bribery by China and money laundering related to his time in the European Parliament.

The German press agency dpa writes:

[Far-right lawmaker Maximilian] Krah, a controversial figure even within his own party, faces a separate investigation over accusations of bribery by China and money laundering related to his time in the European Parliament.

This is not completely on topic, but an interesting read on the DMA by f-droid.org that’s worth your time imho:

Google Developer Verification Policy and the DMA

F-Droid strongly aligns with many of the ideals of the DMA regarding ensuring user choice and privacy. For example:

• The DMA has provisions for ensuring third-party software applications or software application stores can be used: F-Droid has long been the premier way for privacy or free software focused users to install applications outside of the Google Play Store
• The DMA places limitations on how gatekeepers process personal data: F-Droid doesn’t even have accounts. We don’t track users at all. There is no personal data for us to process …

I don’ t question the facts mentioned in the article. You can deceit people, however, in more subtle ways by various means such as biased article/topic selection. For example, the site has been publishing critical articles about Israel or Irish politics, which is perfectly alright, but they ignore certain other topics.

I never came across this site and don’t know Mr. McNeill or his work so far. But he hasn’t done investigative journalism at the China Daily, this we can tell for sure I guess as everything that is only slightly critical of China is strictly censored there.

If there is an obvious bias in the article selection, it is not an independent media, even if it’s factual reporting. They also don’t disclose the donors list.

[Sanchez] speaking at a Reuters Newsmaker event during the Gates Foundation’s annual Goalkeepers meeting in New York, Sanchez said security also required dealing with climate change and global heath.

I recently made a remark about Reuters, and this is the second time. I used to think of it as a independent media agency, but of late I doubt this is the case any longer. This article’s content is just highlighting one of Reuters’ own events, and conveying an absurdly biased view as the Russian threat to Europe is not even remotely taken into account. If you invited Sanchez and Gates to an event, and then reports exclusively what they have said, you know what you get.

This is not independent reporting, let alone research. It has nothing to do with journalism imho.

According to the website, one of the co-founders of this website is Eoghan McNeill who formerly worked, among others, for the ‘China Daily,’ an English-language newspaper owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

Holy crap, what a weird article is this? That’s outright fear-mongering (and clickbait?) with poor content, you can write up such an article on practically any country or continent if you want to in very short amount of time.

Maybe it’s just me but I am starting to loose trust in Reuters. This article is exclusively citing what Matteo Salvini has said in an interview with Xinhua, the state-controlled propaganda outlet of China. It’s without substance as no new decisions have been made nor announced, but it aligns with a narrative desired by European right-wing politicians and their foreign-state supporters. This article is essentially a pure propaganda piece.

What is nltimes.nl and who is behind it?

The website publishes exclusively sensationalist headlines mostly with content that offers not much more than the headline itself. When you try to access the site, they ask for your age. What kind of ads do they run there?

As far as I could figure out, the outlet appears to be a partnership so there are little reporting requirements, but there are only a couple of employees. This seems to be another clickbait media.

All the world’s big emitters will likely fail as it seems - the EU and its members states, the US, China, Russia, India, … don’t know why you single out the Netherlands here.

I am wondering what the alternative would be as Russia is increasingly testing the waters?

In related news:

Drone Incursion Into Romania a Ukrainian ‘Provocation,’ Moscow Claims

The thing is that across the web, and including here on Lemmy, there are communities who are literally waiting for such ‘news’ …

Just asked this in another thread, but it fits also here:

Does anyone know who created this LLM? I couldn’t find anything about it. And will there be a human being to be held accountable for a decision made by the LLM?

Does anyone know who created this LLM? I couldn’t find anything about it. Will there be a human being to be held accountable for the decision?

Maybe it’s just me but this sounds more like “100% bullsh*t” than 100% free of corruption.

Latvia will close the airspace near its borders with Belarus and Russia starting at 6:00 p.m. on September 11 and keep it closed until at least September 18, Defense Minister Andris Spruds said.