In an age when a single social media post can travel faster than an official court ruling, it is not surprising that a video claiming former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s International Criminal Court case had been dismissed quickly caught fire online. Posted on October 30 by a Facebook page called Noel Weng Acido, the video’s thumbnail suggested, in partly obscured text, that the “ICC case dismissed” and that the “evidence of Trillanes” had been exposed. The caption went further, insisting that this was not fake news: three ICC judges, it said, had thrown out Duterte’s case because the evidence supplied…

The violent civil unrest that shook France in October 2026 was a moment of profound national crisis, but behind the chaos on the streets, a more insidious battle was being waged in the digital shadows. A newly obtained internal European Union assessment, reported by Reuters and covered by United24 Media, reveals that a covert Russian influence operation, codenamed “Operation Overload,” sought to exploit the genuine anger and frustration of the French people to achieve a far more cynical goal: eroding public trust in Western institutions and undermining European support for Ukraine. The campaign was not designed to start the fires,…