Latvia´s state security service has started criminal proceedings against an European Parliament lawmaker and a citizen of the Baltic country who is suspected of cooperating with Russian intelligence and security services, according to Latvian media reports Saturday.
Latvian media outlets reported that the security service, known by the abbreviation VDD, has been investigating the activities of Tatjana Ždanoka, 73, and her alleged Russia ties over the past several weeks since reports were published in January by Russian, Nordic and Baltic news sites saying that she has been an agent for the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, since at least 2004.
According to news agency LETA, the Latvian security service decided to start a criminal process against Ždanoka on Feb. 22. The security service couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. Ždanoka has denied all the allegations against her.
I had to think a bit about this one.
But that could be the explanation, the article is about a member of European Parliament, so the AI decides to show a picture of the president of it, as a “prime example” of a member?
It’s like whoever/whatever included that picture has a complete lack of sense of context and significance. Which could more easily be ascribed to an AI than a human being.
It would also explain the somewhat confusing text for the picture, that seems like an attempt to connect the picture to the content of the article, where there is no connection apart from “European Parliament lawmaker”.
Yep. It was the first image that probably came across in the scrape of information, so it slapped her photo on the story. AP should immediately swap out her photo with the accused and apologize profusely.