Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, is on a mission not unlike a public health campaign. He wants to inoculate voters against a virus—not a biological one but the misinformation that surges around every election. He created a website, arizona.vote, to provide reliable and accessible facts about how elections work before rumors and false claims have a chance to spread. Fontes uses colorful language to describe the challenge: “You never know what’s the next little monster that’s going to rear its ugly head.” He knows that the trust problem isn’t solved by a single press release; it requires a…

Happy Tuesday, everyone. If you’re feeling like the news cycle has been running on a treadmill set to “chaos,” you’re not wrong. This week’s Tech Drop is a reminder that technology and politics are no longer separate worlds—they’re fused in ways that affect our daily lives, our sense of safety, and even our grasp on reality. We’ve got five stories that, taken together, paint a picture of a moment where power, data, and algorithms are colliding. From the Trump administration scolding the UK for trying to prioritize trustworthy public media, to the revelation that federal agents may have wiretapped a…