18Gen/26

La Fregola Artica – by Marco Lombardi

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La Fregola Artica sembra quasi una notazione ornitologica (piuttosto che un appunto gastronomico), invece sottolinea solo una certa eccitazione intorno all’Artico che caratterizza in particolare questi mesi. In realtà della terra dei ghiacci se ne parla da anni, ma l’incertezza geopolitica, il processo di rischieramento delle potenze a livello globale, le minacciate “invasioni” di aree di territorio artico, il riposizionamento possibile della logistica, hanno drammatizzato la questione artica, portandola a livelli di emozione e fretta politica inusuale.

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16Gen/26

SPOTREP: UK security alert over Russian espionage activities against NATO personnel – by Emilio Palmieri

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INCIDENT

A few days ago, the UK authorities issued a notice highlighting Russian espionage efforts targeting NATO personnel hosted in a hotel located in the German city of Wiesbaden. The guesthouse is close to the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU) headquarters at the US Army’s Clay Kaserne military base, which is a key hub for coordinating military support and logistics assisting Ukraine’s defense forces against Russia.

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19Nov/25

Mapping the pro-Islamic State (IS) ecosystem on TikTok: a brief overview – by G. L. Giardini and A. Bolpagni

IS propaganda, Islamic State, propaganda, Salafi-Jihadi groups, Terrorism, TikTok

From January 2025 to October 2025, G. L. Giardini and A. Bolpagni have been monitoring and analysing the presence of the pro-Islamic State (IS) ecosystem on TikTok, especially focusing on the dissemination of IS propaganda within the social network platform. Through day-by-day monitoring using Digital Human Intelligence (Digital HUMINT) techniques, more than 270 seed accounts have been identified. The latter, which are pro-IS accounts actively sharing propaganda material, have been functional to the reconstruction of a network characterised by more than 100,000 users. 

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