Picture this: it’s Election Day, and the race for the White House is too close to call. In a crucial swing state, a small group of operatives supporting one candidate has spent months laying the groundwork for an attack that will unfold in a matter of hours. They’ve built an army of fake social media accounts, complete with realistic profile photos generated by artificial intelligence, and they’ve spent months posting and commenting on political content so their accounts look like ordinary, engaged citizens. On the morning of the vote, they activate their plan. Accounts in targeted precincts—areas where the opposing…

On a bright, almost too optimistic morning in Ankara, delegates from across the Turkic world began to fill a conference hall that had seen many formal meetings but few like this one. There were flags from Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, along with observers from communities far beyond those borders. The occasion was the Turkic World Dialogue Forum, and according to reports from Arzuw News, the theme turned on two words that now define our time: disinformation and artificial intelligence. On paper, the agenda looked technical. There were panels about fact‑checking, algorithms, and media ethics. But inside the…