https://www.yourvoicedecides.com ist eine Website von Philip Morris, mit der eine EU-Konsultation über die künftigen Regeln für Tabakprodukte (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/17612-Tobacco-products-and-tobacco-advertising-revision-of-EU-rules_en) manipuliert werden soll.
In der Website muss man ein paar Fragen beantworten und einen eigenen Kommentar schreiben, und dann generiert eine KI daraus einen Text, den man dann an die EU schicken kann. Ich fand das Resultat nicht sehr überzeugend — typisches KI-Kauderwelsch eben — aber es wird den Leuten, die das Ganze lesen müssen, zusätzlichen Aufwand bereiten.

Hier sind noch zwei Artikel über die Angelegenheit (beide auf Niederländisch):
https://www.tabaknee.nl/nieuws/item/3508-industrie-manipuleert-eu-consultatie-tabaksrichtlijn
https://www.rookvrijegeneratie.nl/artikelen/artsen-en-gezondheidsfondsen-klagen-philip-morris-aan

(Warum es nur Artikel auf Niederländisch gibt, ist mir nicht klar, aber vielleicht liegt es daran, dass in den Niederlanden Ärzte und Krankenkassen protestiert haben.)

#YourVoiceDecides #PhillipMorris #Rauchen #Astroturf #AISlop #EuropäischeUnion #EU

From #LouisRossmann: The #3DPrinting control laws cropping up in #NewYork, #Colorado, and other states all result from an #astroturf campaign funded by control freak oligarch #MichaelBloomberg, the former #NYC mayor who pioneered the un-Constitutional and rights-violating racist police practice of #stopAndFrisk.

The claims to be about #gunControl are a smokescreen, and “Every Town Demands Action” is merely a means to the end of mandating surveillance and permission for every form of part manufacturing that is possible independently of large factories. It is actually a campaign to make everyone but billionaires require government approval to manufacture anything, in order to destroy any possibility for anyone but the ruling class to compete or to make or repair our own things.

It is part of a larger demostrated pattern of seeking to control as much as everyone else’s lives as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1B2cWEaWDw

#manufacturingControl #printControl #uspol

“Israeli Paper Admits That The Mossad Astroturfed The January Riots In Iran”

by The Dissident on Substack

@palestine
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@guardian
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“The Israeli paper Ynet put the final nail in the coffin of the CIA/Mossad narrative in Iran, admitting that the Israeli Mossad laid the groundwork for the violent riots that preceded the Israeli/American war, and which were presented in the mainstream media as organic peaceful protests”

https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/israeli-paper-admits-that-the-mossad

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Mossad #CIA #Astroturf #Riots

Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views

Albertans end up bombarded with targeted messaging that amounts to Propaganda or Slopaganda, funded by dark money.

This week, a report by the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO), a joint project between the University of Toronto and McGill University in Montreal looking into Canadian media, identified 20 YouTube channels as part of a co-ordinated network focused on separatism in western Canadian provinces, and other political issues.

The report noted they use near-identical scripts and dubbed them “slopaganda.”

Altogether, the accounts have garnered roughly 40 million views.

The report says many of the videos contain “frequent and obvious lies, drawing on real news stories to reach exaggerated conclusions designed to exploit political divisions.” The report did not identify the individuals behind the apparent network, citing a lack of “identifying information to real humans or organizations nor ties to the secession movement in Alberta.”

“I think it’s disturbing that these voices are able to insert themselves in the conversation, and their interest is not to further the democratic discourse or … have a healthy, authentic conversation,” said Chris Ross, a senior analyst at the Media Ecosystem Observatory.

“They’re putting themselves in the middle of that, misleading Albertans, Canadians, and they’re just doing it to make money.”

#PlasticPatrol: the #CitizenScientists tackling #litter in #Australian #waterways

#Plastics make up the majority of litter across the country. In the absence of regulation, the public are taking matters into their own hands

by James Norman, Fri 30 Jan 2026

"Neil Blake weighs a paper bag of fake grass fragments he has collected from a stormwater gutter near #DarebinCreek in #Melbourne’s north.

"Over the past three years Blake has conducted 56 collections of synthetic turf in the waterway alongside the KP Hardiman Reserve hockey pitch.

" 'I noticed that a local hockey pitch was being replaced and the plastic surface was running off into the local environment,' he says. Strong northerly winds and #LeafBlowers had helped shed the turf fragments into the local #environment.

"In addition to impacts on #AquaticEcosystems, scientific analysis suggests #PlasticPollution is exacerbating #ClimateChange, #biodiversity loss and #OceanAcidification.

"Australians produce more than 3m tonnes of plastic waste each year, and according to Clean Up’s annual survey of parks, beaches, creeks and other public spaces, plastics make up more than 80% of litter across the country. A review by the New South Wales chief scientist found that one #SyntheticTurf field could transport between 10kg and 100kg of plastic fragments into the #stormwater system or local waterways.

"Blake has taken advantage of the electronic scales provided by the newly opened community science laboratory in the Port Phillip #EcoCentre in #StKilda, to quantify his samples to present to the local council and the Environment Protection Authority. The lab hosts facilities including microscopes, measuring equipment, safety gear and access to advice from trained scientists.

"It’s one example of citizen scientists tackling the growing problem of plastics in #waterways, including #beaches, #rivers and dive sites around the country."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/31/australia-litter-picking-beaches-waterways-plastic-pollution

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/okVtk

#SolarPunkSunday #LitterCleanup #NewSouthWales #Australia #PlasticTurf #PlasticPollution #CitizenScience #WaterIsLife #Astroturf #PlasticPollution #Microplastics

OS Age Verification bils are not funded by a "grassroots coalition of conservative nonprofits." They're funded by #meta. This investigative work suggests it's all a massive operation to increase Meta's data harvesting (massively) whie handicapping Google And Apple.

https://masto.deluma.biz/@dogzilla/116227363139966735

Edit: It's been suggested that genAI was involved in making the reddit post. If so, (a) claims require more verification than usual and (b) the AI is pretty conversational in the reddit thread here.

Whoever did this set up a github repo with the information in it.

#privacy #AgeVerification #astroturf