It began not with a dramatic public rupture, but with a quiet request delivered through diplomatic channels: the European Union’s external action service asked organizers of a prominent disinformation conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, to strip its logo from their event. The request landed on the eve of the second day of #Disinfo2026, a gathering meant to unite researchers, journalists, technologists and policymakers against the subtle, corrosive craft of foreign information manipulation and interference. For years, the EU had championed such forums as vital to defending democratic resilience. But now, according to European Commission spokesperson Christian Wigand, the framing of certain…

On Thursday, in a Pretoria briefing led by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni offered a forceful and unusually personal defence of government’s handling of a growing national controversy. The controversy, which has seen long queues at Refugee Reception Offices and a flood of angry social media commentary, revolves around a Constitutional Court judgment concerning asylum seekers. But Ntshavheni’s central message was simple: the government has not been caught napping, and the current crisis is not the result of a sudden, careless decision. She pointed out that the judgment was handed down on 7 July…