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Published: 2022/04/05

Jam Cruise Announces Return After Two-Year Hiatus

After a two-year COVID-19 induced hiatus, Jam Cruise announced that it will return in 2023; organizers at Cloud 9 shared, MSC Divina, will set sail on Feb. 6 from Miami. 

The event allows attendees to experience some of the jamband scenes’ best music at sea. The ship will see stops at Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, and the private island Ocean City, Bahamas. 

The artist lineup has not been announced but is expected to be released on May 4. The 2020 iteration of the beloved festival included performances by The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Les Claypool’s Bastard Jazz, moe., Galactic, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe and more.

Public on-sale will begin on May 12. Pre-book is available now and can be accessed here .

For more information, visit jamcruise.com .

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All aboard! The 20th edition of Jam Cruise will be sailing to and from Miami through the Caribbean, with port stops in Montego Bay, Jamaica and Grand Cayman.

Discover a music venue like no other, with bands playing around the clock at eight stages throughout the ship on the luxurious MSC Divina. This world-class lineup of musicians will be serving up funky jams, special sets, super groups, and collaborations... Let the planning begin!

moe. • Medeski Martin & Porter (Ft. Aba Diop) • Cory Wong

Jerry harrison & adrian belew remain in light galactic (ft. anjelika ‘jelly’ joseph) • karl denson’s tiny universe • lettuce • lotus, steel pulse • franc moody • dumpstaphunk • the new mastersounds, keller williams’ grateful grass (ft the hillbenders) + solo set, ivan & friends • krasno moore project • chali 2na & cut chemist, tauk moore (ft. the horn section) • cimafunk • jimi’s dead • perpetual groove daniel donato’s cosmic country • eggy • ryan montbleau band, cool cool cool • magic beans • lebo’s yacht rock • próxima parada, big richard • the sweet lillies • diggin dirt • j & the causeways, the hillbenders • mike d super jam • everyone orchestra, dj logic • dj soul sister.

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Marc Brownstein • Duane Betts • Kanika Moore Chris Jacobs • Adryon de León • Lyle Divinsky • Elise Testone

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Eric Krasno • Nikki Glaspie • Nigel Hall • Vaylor Trucks • Ross James George Porter Jr. • Stanton Moore • Jimi’s Dead • Matt Butler

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Jam Cruise 21 Sets Lineup Reveal Parties At Tank & The Bangas, Stanton & Friends Shows In New Orleans

Jam Cruise will celebrate the announcement of the lineup for its 21st sailing during a pair of concerts at New Orleans, LA’s Toulouse Theatre on Thursday, May 2nd during New Orleans Jazz Fest .

The official Jam Cruise 21 lineup announcement party will coincide with two separately ticketed shows featuring familiar New Orleans artists with notable Jam Cruise resumes. First, eclectic NOLA soul/hip-hop/jazz/spoken word outfit Tank and the Bangas will take the stage for the opening show of their three-night stand at Toulouse Theatre [ get tickets ]. After midnight, Galactic drummer  Stanton Moore will take over the room for a funk jam session with a group of notable friends including organist Robert Walter (Mike Gordon, Roger Waters, The Greyboy Allstars), enigmatic saxophonist  Skerik (Les Claypool), guitarist  Will Bernard , and local favorite trombonist/bandleader  Big Sam (Big Sam’s Funky Nation) [ get tickets ].

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In addition to celebrating the floating festival’s 2025 lineup, set to be revealed earlier that day, the Cloud 9 Adventures team will be on site at Toulouse Theatre on May 2nd to answer questions and help pre-book fans’ Jam Cruise 21 trips. Ahead of the lineup announcement party, fans can also pre-book for Jam Cruise 21 at the Daze Between New Orleans festival at Faubourg Brewery on Tuesday, April 30th and Wednesday, May 1st.

For tickets to Tank and the Bangas at Toulouse Theatre on Thursday, May 2nd, head here . For tickets to Stanton & Friends at Toulouse Theatre on Thursday, May 2nd (technically early-a.m. 5/3), head here .

Revisit some of the highlights of Jam Cruise 20 with Live For Live Music ‘s coverage from the high seas here . Jam Cruise 21 is due to sail from Miami, Florida on February 14th, 2025 and make stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Belize City, Belize before returning to Miami on February 19th. Pre-book your Jam Cruise 21 voyage here .

The two Jam Cruise 21 lineup announcement parties on Thursday, May 2nd featuring Tank and the Bangas and Stanton & Friends, respectively, are part of Live For Live Music and GMP Live’s 2024 Fest by Nite series in New Orleans during Jazz Fest . Confirmed Fest by Nite 2024 events include:

• Daze Between New Orleans Festival ft. Gov’t Mule, Lettuce, John Scofield, & more – Faubourg Brewery – Tuesday, 4/30; Wednesday, 5/1 [ tickets ]
• Tell Me Something Good: A Tribute to Chaka Khan – Jennifer Hartswick, Shira Elias, Erica Falls, Jelly Joseph, & more – Toulouse Theatre – Thursday, 4/25 [ tickets ]
• Jimi’s Dead: A Mashup of Jimi Hendrix & The Grateful Dead ft. Eric Krasno, Ross James, Nikki Glaspie, Brandon “Taz” Niederauer – Toulouse Theatre – Friday, 4/26 [ tickets ]
• Wednesday Night Titans  – Toulouse Theatre – Friday, 4/26 (technically early-a.m. 4/27) [ tickets ]
• TAUK Presents  Tower of Wonder: A Tribute to Tower of Power & Stevie Wonder  – TAUK ft. Kanika Moore, The Horn Section, Lyle Divinsky – Toulouse Theatre – Saturday, 4/27 [ tickets ]
• LP Giobbi:  Dead House  – Civic Theatre – Saturday, 4/27 [ tickets ]
• The Funk Sessions ft. Stanton Moore, Nels Cline, Skerik, Wil Blades – Toulouse Theatre – Saturday, 4/27 (technically early-a.m. 4/28) [ tickets ]
• Kitchen Dwellers:  A Bluegrass Tribute to Dr. John  – Toulouse Theatre – Sunday, 4/28 [ tickets ]
• Frequinauts  ft. Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr., Stanton Moore, & more – Toulouse Theatre – Monday, 4/29 [ tickets ]
• Andy Frasco & The U.N. w/ Special Guests  – House of Blues New Orleans – Tuesday, 4/30 [ tickets ]
• The Daze Between Band  ft. Chuck Leavell, John Scofield, George Porter Jr., & more – Tipitina’s – Wednesday, 5/1 [SOLD OUT]
• John “Papa” Gros’  Papa Plays The Nite Tripper  – Toulouse Theatre – Wednesday, 5/1 [ tickets ]
• Tank and the Bangas – A Special Three-Day Event / Jam Cruise 21 Lineup Announcement Party – Toulouse Theatre – Thursday, 5/2 [ tickets ]
• Stanton Moore & Friends ft. Robert Walter, Big Sam, Skerik, & more / Jam Cruise 21 Lineup Announcement Party – Thursday, 5/2 (technically early-a.m. 5/3) [ tickets ]
• Lettuce:  Rage Fest  – The Joy Theater – Friday, 5/3 [ tickets ]
• Tank and the Bangas – A Special Three-Day Event – Toulouse Theatre – Friday, 5/3 [ tickets ]
• Joe Russo’s Selcouth Quartet  – Toulouse Theatre – Friday, 5/3 (technically early-a.m. 5/4) [ tickets ]
• Tank and the Bangas – A Special Three-Day Event – Toulouse Theatre – Saturday, 5/4 [ tickets ]
• Crescent City Classics: A Celebration of New Orleans Funk ft. members of The Meters, Lettuce, Dumpstaphunk, & more – The Joy Theater – Saturday, 5/4 [ tickets ]
• Break Science  – Toulouse Theatre – Saturday, 5/4 (technically early-a.m. 5/5) [ tickets ]
• Purple Party: A Tribute to the Music of Prince ft. members of Cool Cool Cool, The Nth Power, Doom Flamingo, Magic Beans, & more – Toulouse Theatre – Sunday, 5/5 [ tickets ]

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Scientists warn: Humanity faces the brink of self-destruction in 2024

Posted: June 11, 2024 | Last updated: June 11, 2024

The Doomsday Clock continues to inch closer to the apocalypse over climate change and fears of nuclear war. The year 2024 has brought yet another dire warning issued by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. But what is the Doomsday Clock, and how is it read?

To summarize, the clock was developed by scientists in 1947 to track the likelihood of mankind doing something that brings about the end of the world. The development of nuclear weapons and the rapid progression of climate change are two things that have moved the clock's hand closer to midnight, which in this case, marks Armageddon. After the end of the Cold War, the clock was 17 minutes away from midnight, but in recent years, we've gone from counting down the minutes to counting down the seconds. In 2024, the Bulletin left the clock at the same position as last year—90 seconds to midnight.

"Conflict hot spots around the world carry the threat of nuclear escalation, climate change is already causing death and destruction, and disruptive technologies like AI and biological research advance faster than their safeguards," Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin's president and CEO, told Reuters. She clarified that leaving the clock unchanged is "not an indication that the world is stable," considering how disastrously close we already are to midnight. 

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It's been maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ,  itself founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project.

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A metaphor for threats

The clock serves as a metaphor for hazards to our world from unchecked scientific and technical advances using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the planet.

Who sets the Doomsday Clock?

The clock is set every year by the Bulletin's Science and Security Board. It's original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. Since then its timeline has been adjusted to reflect the perceived threat from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains. To turn the clock back is to revisit some of the most frightening and potentially catastrophic episodes in the history of humanity.

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1949: 3 minutes to midnight (23h57)

On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union carried out its first nuclear test, detonating an atomic bomb, the RDS-1, thus officially starting the nuclear arms race.

1953: 2 minutes to midnight (23h58)

The United States tests its first thermonuclear device, in November 1952 at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Ivy. The USSR responds with a similar test in August 1953. This remained the clock's closest approach to midnight (tied in 2018) until 2020.

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1960: 7 minutes to midnight (23h53)

Despite a series of regional conflicts including the Suez Crisis of 1956 (pictured), the 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, and the 1958 Lebanon crisis, the clock is put back five minutes in 1960 due in part to increased scientific cooperation and public understanding of the dangers of nuclear weapons.

1963: 12 minutes to midnight (23h48)

The Partial Test Ban Treaty signed by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States in Moscow on August 5, 1963 set the clock back to 23h48.

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1968: 7 minutes to midnight (23h53)

The clock edges towards midnight again as involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War intensifies. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and the Six-Day War in 1967 are also determining factors. Meanwhile, France and China join the nuclear arms race.

1969: 10 minutes to midnight (23h50)

Every nation in the world, with the notable exceptions of India, Israel, and Pakistan, signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The treaty was negotiated by the Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament, a United Nations-sponsored organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. It was signed on July 1, 1968 and became effective on March 5, 1970.

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1972: 12 minutes to midnight (23h48)

A wave of renewed optimism sweeps the world as the United States and the Soviet Union sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. The clock drops back 120 seconds to 12 minutes before midnight as Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev close the deal in Moscow.

1974: 9 minutes to midnight (23h51)

India's testing of a nuclear device and the stalling of the vital SALT II talks edges the clock forward. Pictured: a crater marks the site of the first Indian underground nuclear test conducted on May 18, 1974 at Pokhran in the desert state of Rajasthan.

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1980: 7 minutes to midnight (23h53)

The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 sees the US Senate refuse to ratify the SALT II agreement.

1981: 4 minutes to midnight (23h56)

The world is in turmoil: rising tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union contribute to the danger of nuclear annihilation; the US pulls out of the 1980 Olympic Summer Games; the Iran hostage crisis (pictured) makes world headlines; the Iran-Iraq conflict continues; martial law is declared in Poland; apartheid in South Africa achieves new levels of brutality; and widespread human rights violations are witnessed around the globe.

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1984: 3 minutes to midnight (23h57)

Further escalation of the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union are exemplified with the deployment in Western Europe of Pershing II medium-range ballistic missile and cruise missiles. Meanwhile, the ongoing Soviet–Afghan War only serves to intensify the Cold War. And the Soviet Union announce a boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Pictured is a banner that reads "Refuse Cruise" seen at a demonstration by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) against the hosting by the UK of US nuclear cruise missiles on British soil.

1988: 6 minutes to midnight (23h54)

A thaw in the Cold War sees the clock gain three minutes as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in Washington, D.C. on December 8, 1987, effective June 1, 1988.

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1990: 10 minutes to midnight (23h50)

The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 1990 and the Iron Curtain, along with the reunification of Germany, sees the beginning of the end of the Cold War.

1991: 17 minutes from midnight (23h43)

The dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991 sees the hands of the Doomsday Clock set back 420 seconds to 17 minutes—to date the farthest from midnight the Doomsday Clock has been since its inception.  

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1995: 14 minutes to midnight (23h46)

Concerns mount over post-Soviet Union nuclear proliferation of weapons and brainpower. At the same time, and despite the signing of various treaties, global military spending continues at Cold War levels.

1998: 9 minutes from midnight (23h51)

Both India and Pakistan detonate nuclear weapons in underground tests: Pakistan's Chagai-I project takes place at Ras Koh Hills, while the remote Thar Desert region (pictured) serves as the location for India's Pokhran-II series of detonations.

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2002: 7 minutes from midnight (23h53)

The global nuclear disarmament initiative loses momentum and the United States, concerned about the possibility of a nuclear terrorist attack due to the amount of weapon-grade nuclear materials that are unsecured and unaccounted for worldwide, rejects a series of rams controls and treaties.

2007: 5 minutes to midnight (23h55)

The clock edges forward after North Korea tests a nuclear weapon in 2006. At the same time, Iran's nuclear ambitions become cause for concern. And in a sign of the times, after assessing the dangers posed to civilization, climate change is added to the prospect of nuclear annihilation as the greatest threats to humanity.

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2010: 6 minutes to midnight (23h54)

The Clock edges back 60 seconds after the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen results in the developing and industrialized countries agreeing to take responsibility for carbon emissions and to limit global temperature rise to 2°C (35.6°F).

2012: 5 minutes to midnight (23h55)

The lack of global political will to address urgent global climate change issues nudges the clock another minute towards midnight. Of equal concern are nuclear weapons stockpiles, the potential for regional nuclear conflict, and nuclear power safety.

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2015: 3 minutes to midnight (23h57)

The apparent inability of governments around the world to tackle global climate change, plus the modernization of nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia, and the problem of nuclear waste, takes another 120 seconds off the clock.

2017: 2.5 minutes to midnight (23h57.30)

US President Donald Trump's alarmist rhetoric over nuclear weapons, the threat of a renewed arms race between the US and Russia, and his administration's refusal to accept scientific consensus over climate change, is enough to shave off another 90 seconds.

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2018: 2 minutes to midnight (23h58)

The clock matches its 1958 2-minute warning after the US withdraws from the 2015 Paris Agreement.

2019: 2 minutes to midnight (23h58)

In 2019, the Doomsday Clock remained at 2 minutes to midnight due to unresolved issues involving climate change and because of the threat posed by information warfare such as misuse of AI and synthetic biology, and cyberwarfare.

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2020: 100 seconds to midnight (23h58.2)

In 2020, the unit of time was announced in seconds (100) to emphasize "the most dangerous situation that humanity has ever faced," according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

2021/2022: 100 seconds to midnight

In 2021 and 2022, the Bulletin reaffirmed the "100 seconds to midnight" time setting, reiterating the failure of world leaders to deal with the increased threats of nuclear war along with the continued neglect of climate change.

2023: 90 seconds to midnight (23h58.5)

In 2023, the clock was moved 10 seconds closer to midnight, leaving us just 90 seconds away from doomsday. This was in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine and the imminent threat of nuclear war. “We are sending a message that the situation is becoming more urgent,” said Rachel Bronson, President of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. "Crises are more likely to happen and have broader consequences and longer standing effects.” Other threats to humanity mentioned included "nuclear weapon proliferation in China, Iran increasing its uranium enrichment, missile tests in North Korea, future pandemics from animal diseases, pathogens from lab mistakes, “disruptive technologies,” and worsening climate change."

Sources: (BBC) (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) (CTBTO)

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Fake News Reports and Videos Seek to Undermine the Paris Olympics

Russian propagandists are spoofing broadcasters and mimicking French and U.S. intelligence agencies to stoke fear about security at the Games.

By Julian E. Barnes and Steven Lee Myers

Julian E. Barnes, who covers U.S. intelligence agencies, and Steven Lee Myers, who covers misinformation, have been reporting on Russian efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election.

With its athletes barred from competing in the Summer Olympics under the country’s flag, Russia has turned its fury on the Games and this year’s host, Paris.

Russian propagandists have created an hourlong documentary, spoofed news reports and even mimicked French and American intelligence agencies to issue fake warnings urging people to avoid the Games, according to a report released on Sunday by Microsoft.

The report details the disinformation campaign created by a group the company calls Storm-1679. The campaign appears to have accelerated since March, flooding social media with short videos raising alarms about possible terrorist attacks and stoking fears about safety.

The operation, while aimed at the Games, is using various techniques to spread disinformation that could also be employed in European and U.S. elections.

American and French officials have tracked the campaign. One American official said that Russian disinformation, spread by the Kremlin via social media, continued to threaten the security of the United States and its allies.

The group has also tried to goad fact checkers into examining its claims, hoping to use the attention to spread the disinformation to new audiences as it is called out.

For months, French officials have focused on the ways Russia could seek to undermine the Games. Hackers affiliated with Russian intelligence disrupted the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, and French officials are preparing for more cyberattacks this year.

France raised its terrorism warning level after an Islamic State attack in Moscow in March and threats against high-profile soccer matches in Paris. France also has increased security for the Olympics. Neither French nor American officials are warning people to stay away from the Games, but the Russian disinformation campaign is designed to scare people into doing just that.

Researchers at Microsoft and U.S. government officials have identified a number of groups affiliated with the Kremlin that are spreading disinformation aimed at Europe and the United States.

Some are directed by aides to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Others are affiliated with Russian intelligence. Some hide behind fake nonprofit groups. Others are veterans of the Internet Research Agency, a St. Petersburg troll farm that spread election propaganda in 2016. The agency was run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of a mercenary group who led a rebellion against the Kremlin and then was killed in a plane crash last year.

Storm-1679 appears separate from those efforts, according to Microsoft. The group’s disinformation is aligned with Kremlin propaganda, but few specifics about it are known.

Bellingcat, a research group that uses publicly available data to conduct open source investigations, has been targeted by disinformation videos and has watched the campaign unfold. Eliot Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, says his group has not established whether Storm-1679 is backed by the Russian government or is independent.

“It could be Prigozhin 2.0 doing work for the Kremlin, or an over-imaginative pro-Russian blogger doing it for kicks; we just don’t know at this point,” Mr. Higgins said.

The work began in earnest last summer with the release of a fake documentary about the International Olympic Committee, expropriating Netflix’s logo and using an A.I.-powered voice impersonating Tom Cruise. The committee succeeded in having the video — a spoof of the 2013 film “Olympus Has Fallen” — removed from YouTube. The attacks have continued , though, with persistent efforts to discredit its leadership, the committee said in March, citing a campaign that used fake recordings of what purported to be telephone calls by officials of the African Union on behalf of Russia.

The group known as Storm-1679 now appears to be making shorter videos that are easier to create. It used to focus on disparaging Ukrainian refugees in the West, but after President Emmanuel Macron of France began to publicly consider sending French troops to Ukraine, it shifted to the Olympics.

Microsoft estimates that Storm-1679 produces three to eight faked videos a week, in English and French, with many impersonating the BBC, Al Jazeera and other broadcasters. The group appears to respond quickly to news events, like protests in New Caledonia, a French territory in the Pacific. Others focus on the prospect of a terrorist attack in Paris.

Most of the videos pretending to be from the C.I.A. and French intelligence are relatively simple. They are unlike anything the C.I.A. has actually produced, but to unsuspecting readers online, they could appear legitimate, using the agency’s logo and stark white-on-black typography.

“They are trying to cultivate an anticipation of violence,” Clint Watts, the head of Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center, said of the group behind the fake posts. “They want people to be fearful of going to the Olympics.”

A C.I.A. spokesman said a video that circulated online in February purporting to be a warning from the agency warning of terrorist attacks during the Games was a fabrication.

In February, Viginum, the government agency in France that combats disinformation online, identified the fake C.I.A. video as part of a campaign it called Matryoshka, after the nesting dolls that are popular in Russia.

The campaign was also responsible for fake videos about the domestic French intelligence agency, the French government said. A person briefed on the French investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence assessments, said that Viginum and the French Foreign Ministry were quickly identifying the Russian disinformation from the group aimed at undermining the Olympics.

French officials and Microsoft say one of the group’s tactics appears to be trying to get the attention of fact-checking organizations.

“Normally, when Storm-1679 posts content on Telegram, it circulates there for a day or two and then goes away,” Mr. Watts said. “The content doesn’t normally travel from one platform to another, but when their false content is fact-checked by accounts with a large following, the content gets far more views and in front of new and different audiences.”

Mr. Higgins said if baiting fact-checkers was part of the group’s strategy, it did not appear to be an effective one. Bellingcat, he said, is aware that reporting on disinformation can draw attention to the propaganda, and that is factored in when his organization fact-checks videos.

“It doesn’t appear that their messages are getting amplified,” Mr. Higgins said. “Even among the usual circles who lap up Russian disinformation, we don’t see them being shared at all.”

Julian E. Barnes covers the U.S. intelligence agencies and international security matters for The Times. He has written about security issues for more than two decades. More about Julian E. Barnes

Steven Lee Myers covers misinformation and disinformation from San Francisco. Since joining The Times in 1989, he has reported from around the world, including Moscow, Baghdad, Beijing and Seoul. More about Steven Lee Myers

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Ukraine’s army chief says Russia is augmenting its troops presence in the Kharkiv region

Ukrainian servicemen search a target with a US Stinger air defence missile launcher on the front line in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Czech Defense Minister Jana Cernochova, right, attend a Czech Defense Capabilities Event at Prague-Kbely Airport, in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, Pool)

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia conducted an array of aerial attacks on Ukraine with cruise missiles, drones and ballistic missiles, Ukraine’s air force said Thursday, while the chief of the army said Russia is increasing its troop concentration in the Kharkiv region where Moscow’s forces have made significant advances in a spring offensive.

Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence operation said that sea drones destroyed two Russian KS-701 patrol boats in the Black Sea off the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula. Russian officials didn’t immediately comment.

The air force said that the overnight attacks included eight S-300 ballistic missiles, 11 cruise missiles and 32 Shahed drones. All the drones and seven of the cruise missiles were shot down, the air force said, but didn’t provide further details.

In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, seven people were wounded and a municipal services building caught fire in the attacks, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said. Russian aerial strikes were also reported in Khmelnytskyi and Dnipropetrovsk, but there were no injuries.

AP AUDIO: Ukraine’s army chief says Russia is augmenting its troops presence in the Kharkiv region

In a statement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is working with other nations to fight Russian misinformation and disinformation.

Ukrainian army chief Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said on his Facebook page on Thursday that Russia is bringing army units into the Kharkiv region from other parts of Ukraine to supplement forces in the two main flashpoints of fighting, the towns of Vovchansk and Lyptsi. Syrskyi said that Ukraine has also moved reserve troops into the area.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said that its air defenses shot down eight U.S.-made ATACMS missiles over the Azov Sea, which borders both Russia and Russia-held Ukrainian territory.

One person was wounded by a drone explosion in Russia’s Belgorod region , which borders Kharkiv and comes under daily attack from the Ukrainian side.

A lengthy delay in U.S. military aid and Western Europe’s inadequate military production has slowed crucial deliveries to the battlefield for Ukraine, and Russia has exploited the delays to make advances in the Kharkiv region.

Russian missiles and bombs also have pummeled Ukrainian military positions and civilian areas, including the power grid.

On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assailed Russian attempts to sow discord in democracies with misinformation, after hinting that the Biden administration may soon allow Ukraine to use American-supplied munitions to strike inside Russia.

In Prague for a NATO foreign ministers meeting , Blinken cited Moscow’s use of misinformation and disinformation, calling it a “poison” and signing an agreement with the Czech government to combat it.

Blinken said Wednesday that U.S. policy on how Ukraine deploys American weapons is constantly evolving, suggesting that Washington may rescind an unwritten prohibition on Ukraine’s use of them for attacks on Russian territory.

Although U.S. officials insist there is no formal ban, they have long made clear that they believe the use of American weapons to attack targets inside Russia could provoke an escalatory response from Moscow, something that Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised.

Three U.S. officials familiar with the matter told AP on Thursday that President Joe Biden has given Ukraine the go-ahead to use American weaponry to strike inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv.

The officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, underscored that the U.S. policy calling on Ukraine not to use American-provided long-range missiles and other munitions to strike inside Russia offensively has not changed.

Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine .

Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller and Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington and Matthew Lee in Prague contributed to this report.