Broadcasters in Nigeria have raised an urgent warning: artificial intelligence and misinformation are no longer distant concerns but active threats to the very foundation of the country’s broadcasting industry. The message, captured in a recent Apex News Exclusive report, is sobering and timely. It reflects a growing anxiety among media professionals who find themselves standing at a crossroads where technological innovation meets deep social responsibility. On one side, AI offers remarkable opportunities to improve content creation, edit faster, personalize news, and even translate broadcasts into multiple languages. On the other side, the same technology is being used to engineer deceptive…

I remember standing in the atrium of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, listening to the murmur of a dozen languages drifting between the coffee stands and the registration desks. It felt strange, but encouraging. For years, I had been one of the people who flew to Brussels to attend meetings, to sit in rectangular conference rooms, to nod along to interpreters speaking forty languages. But that day in July, the European Economic and Social Committee had come to us. We, the Economic and Social Council of Bulgaria, had co-hosted the Connecting EU seminar. It was not just a…