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45north has been given limited access to Talisman, the flagship software product of the Massachusetts based company @FilterLabs. We used it to try to asses how🇷🇺Russian attitudes towards the economy and war evolved in 2025. This is what we found: 1 / 🧵
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1/13 Your saboteur has arrived!. 45north investigated the new "gig economy" sabotage model employed by 🇷🇺RU, followed the story of a Columbian that tried to blow-up a Romanian target, obtained RU mil contracts from Colombia and traced a a TG account of a 🇨🇺Cuban indicted by DOJ
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12/13 On a broader scale than sabotage, for a sample of 58 Sputnik and RT social media accounts across many languages,, YTD, we saw app. 1 billion views and 22 million interactions.These are cumulative counts; unique audiences and persuasion were not measured.
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13/13“It is very difficult to assess their impact in isolation,” @linterna co-founder @CarlosCortes told us. Russian narratives blend into Colombia’s existing political debates. 45north.ro/2026/10/23/dintr-…
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1 / 45north has received 4 years of STS transfers data from the Romanian Naval Authority, transfers that have taken place in 🇷🇴 EEZ. From this, we could extract and corroborate information on ships, locations, owners. This is what we found out:
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10 / while on June 5, a transfer involving two vessels is visible. On Jun. 2, Global Fishing Watch, detected AIS signals for a tugboat and a vessel named OCEAN THALIA (9278052), though at a distance of app. 225 meters from the exact coord. On June 5, no AIS was recorded on GFW.
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11 / Read the full report: 45north.ro/2026/03/03/pirati… Photo Unsplash
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