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Propaganda wars

⚡Ukrainian media outlets publish video showing Ukrainian soldiers saying they control Gazprom facility in Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region

https://x.com/WarMonitors/status/1821974559576486177

They must really need a war fast to dodge accountability!

Iran seeks to meddle in US elections – Microsoft

The company claims to have discovered hackers and fake news sites linked to Tehran

Hackers and fake news sites allegedly linked to Iran might be up to something nefarious in the US, Microsoft has warned in a new cyber intelligence report.

Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) released a nine-page paper on Friday, claiming to have found traces of influence operations targeting Americans, mainly Iranian but also Chinese and Russian.

“Iranian actors have recently laid the groundwork for influence operations aimed at US audiences and potentially seeking to impact the 2024 US presidential election,” the MTAC said.

One alleged Iranian network, dubbed Storm-2035, is said to operate four websites posing as news outlets, each of which caters to a different part of the US electorate. One of the sites, Savannah Time [sic], focuses on Republican politics, writing about LGBT issues and sex-changes in particular.

Another, Nio Thinker, caters to Democrats and posts “sarcastic, long-winded articles” attacking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump with insults such as “raving mad litigiosaur” [sic] and “opioid-pilled elephant in the MAGA china shop.”

MTAC named the third outlet in the group as EvenPolitics, while the fourth remained unidentified. The company claims the sites have used AI-enabled services to plagiarize “at least some of their content from US publications.”

In addition to fake news websites, MTAC claims to have identified two Iranian hacker groups linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). One, dubbed Mint Sandstorm, tried to hack a presidential campaign in June by sending “a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor.”

Mint Sandstorm “also unsuccessfully attempted to log in to an account belonging to a former presidential candidate” around June 13, MTAC said. While the group is said to normally engage in espionage, these actions “suggest” their objectives might be election-related, according to MTAC.

Another group “with assessed links” to IRGC, designated Peach Sandstorm or APT-33, managed to access the account of a county government “in a swing state” that “had undergone a race-related controversy that made national news this year.”

The US government and Big Tech companies have claimed since 2016 that Russia and other foreign governments have been carrying out hacking attacks and “influence operations” with the goal of undermining American elections. The sole exception was the 2020 vote, which both government agencies and private companies – later discovered to have been working together – declared “the most secure in American history.”

https://www.rt.com/news/602395-microsoft-iran-election-meddling/

Trump's plane lands in Billings after reported mechanical issue

The plane of former president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump landed in Billings, Montana at 2:29 p.m. on Friday.

According to the Billings Airport, Trump's plane landed in Billings after a mechanical issue. He took a private plane to the Bozeman area. Secret Service had to do a complete sweep of the airport here before that took place.

An individual familiar with the situation told MTN that the second plane flew to the West Yellowstone Airport and landed around 4:00 p.m.

https://www.ktvh.com/news/trumps-plane-lands-in-billings-ahead-of-bozeman-rally

Cartel Drones Fly With Explosives Near Southern Border

Vice President Kamala Harris' role as President Biden's "border czar" has sparked the worst border crisis in American history, a fact well known by now. However, a new report highlights a concerning new threat stream: drug cartels on the southern border are increasingly weaponizing drones with explosives, similar to what's being seen on modern battlefields in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. All of this is happening under VP Harris' watch.

Here's the report from the New York Post:

Cartel drones packed with explosives are flying just south of Arizona's border with Mexico, The Post has learned, alarming Senate defense hawks who are pushing for legislation to counter novel aerial incursions into the US.

Members of Los Salazar, a cell of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, are using drones "to drop explosives" on Los Pelones, an independent rival cartel, as part of ongoing conflict in Sonoyta, Mexico, according to an internal bulletin circulated by the US Border Patrol's Yuma Sector Intelligence Unit on Tuesday.

The Yuma Sector Intelligence Unit recently received information that members of Los Salazar are utilizing drones to drop explosives on members of Los Pelones in an ongoing confrontation south of Sonoyta, MX. Other confrontations between these two organizations have occurred along the border, south of Wellton Stations area of operations, in recent months.

Separately, US Northern Command's top general, Air Force Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in a hearing in mid-March that more than 1,000 incursions of drones occur along the southern border each month.

Guillot warned lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the incursions present a "growing" defense threat to the homeland.

Since the Biden-Harris Administration assumed office, there have been more than 8 million illegal aliens encountered entering the country through the southwest border and over 1.6 million 'gotaways.'

Biden-Harris' border crisis is an absolute mess, which has contributed to murders, sexual assaults, and serious bodily injuries committed against numerous Americans by illegal aliens.

Earlier this week, an interim staff report from the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, revealed nearly 100 illegal aliens on the FBI terror watchlist were released into the US after being arrested by Border Patrol.

Most Americans care about two things before the elections: 1) inflation and 2) the border.

For Harris and Obama's Democrat party, there's no escaping that disastrous border issue.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-harris-mess-cartel-drones-fly-explosives-near-southern-border

UK Police Commissioner Threatens International Citizens Over Online Posts “We Will Come After You”

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1821934374675206485