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New: We looked into the large-scale phishing campaign that's targeting Signal users and found digital evidence pointing to Russian involvement – and a connection to previous attacks in Ukraine and Moldova.

New: We looked at how Russia is remaking occupied territories in Ukraine, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into roads, railways and ports to try and inexorably tie the region into their own, part of Putin's grand vision for so-called "Novorossiya" reuters.com/investigations…

New: We looked into the large-scale phishing campaign that's targeting Signal users and found digital evidence pointing to Russian involvement – and a connection to previous attacks in Ukraine and Moldova.

The US is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal conditional on Kyiv ceding all of Donbas to Russia, Zelenskiy told Reuters. Trump is applying pressure to Ukraine in an effort to bring a quick end to the four-year war, he said. reuters.com/business/aeros…

@wearetlpblack @Billbrowder @alexejhock @correctiv_org Thanks for spotting! Just fixed it

@mxbernhard @Billbrowder @alexejhock @correctiv_org Thanks for the IOCs! This "[.]" below looks like a typo, should be "/" probably ->

@Billbrowder Story with @alexejhock for @correctiv_org correctiv.org/en/fact-checki… You can find a list of the domains and corresponding IPs we found here correctiv.org/wp-content/upl…

@Billbrowder This tool was being advertised on Russian hacker forums for less than 700 USD. We also found evidence that it was used in previous phishing campaigns targeting users in Ukraine and Moldova.

“Made in USA” and Department of Defense codes: new photos of weapon debris allegedly recovered from Feb. 28 school strike in Minab show remnants consistent with a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile. w/ @malachybrowne @johnismay nytimes.com/2026/03/09/wor…

Israeli soldiers shot dead Jad, a Palestinian boy, denied paramedics access to him at gunpoint, & watched Jad bleed out for 45 min.Then kidnapped the body denying a burial. Their accusation: Jad was throwing a stone. Video shows they planted one #Palestine bbc.com/news/articles/…

U.N.-backed investigators say Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces have carried out a campaign in el-Fasher that shows hallmarks of genocide against non-Arab communities. apnews.com/article/rsf-su…

Die EU sperrte 2022 den russischen Staatssender Russia Today, um Propaganda und Desinformation zum Krieg gegen die Ukraine zu unterbinden. Jahre später erreicht der deutsche Ableger, RT DE, über Spiegelseiten noch immer Millionen Aufrufe. Woran liegt das? correctiv.org/faktencheck/hi…

Pressekonferenz Innenministerin Daniela Behrens: Niedersachsen stuft den AfD-Landesverband Niedersachsen als extremistische Bestrebung ein, AfD wird dort zum "Beobachtungsobjekt von erheblicher Bedeutung". youtube.com/live/j19jDWs0Z… #KorrTweet

Heartbroken to have been laid off by The Washington Post today. It has been the honour of a lifetime to work with these colleagues for a decade, from Damascus to Baghdad, Derna to to Bakhmut. I am proud of our work. Thank you, everyone.

NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. nytimes.com/2026/02/04/bus…

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5 @JeffBezos

More from Baron: "Bezos’s sickening efforts to curry favor with President Trump have left an especially ugly stain of their own. This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction."

Laid off from the Washington Post, along with the entire roster of Middle East correspondents and our editors. Hard to understand the logic. But I am grateful for my incredible colleagues, whose grit and dedication to the reporting and each other I will miss dearly.