According to News24, a major city street was locked down after what was ultimately confirmed to be a false bomb threat. In simple terms, authorities received a warning, treated it with absolute seriousness, evacuated the area, closed the street to traffic and pedestrians, and spent hours conducting a meticulous search before declaring the situation safe. The entire episode, while lasting only a few hours, disrupted the rhythm of thousands of ordinary lives. A bustling urban artery, normally filled with the sounds of honking cars, chattering commuters, and shopkeepers arranging their windows, turned suddenly into a tense, eerily quiet corridor of…

Imagine asking your phone a simple question about the election and getting an answer that is confidently wrong. In Spanish, that is exactly what happened to Laura Zommer, co-founder of Factchequeado, a fact-checking site that fights Spanish-language misinformation. When she asked Meta’s AI chatbot for the date of the U.S. midterm elections, the bot answered November 4 instead of November 3. She asked twice, and twice it gave the same incorrect date. This is not just a tiny glitch in a machine; it is a warning sign. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue later put the same kind of election questions…