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It was just another video slipping through the digital cracks of a high-stakes election cycle. The footage showed presiding officers in Rustenburg handling envelopes after special-vote home visits, and to the untrained eye, it looked like a smoking gun—evidence of ballot tampering. Within hours, the clip was ricocheting across social…
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On the morning of 7 November, anyone scrolling through social media in Poland might have believed the constitutional order was ending. A video clip, shared thousands of times, appeared to show President Karol Nawrocki delivering a grim national address about the Supreme Court’s latest ruling. In another video, a female Constitutional Tribunal judge seemed so furious that she slammed a folder onto her desk, announced that she had lost all faith in the system, and walked out of the courtroom in tears. The only problem is that none of these moments ever happened. The faces were real; the words and…
The South Korean government is trying something unusual: before writing new rules for artificial intelligence, it is going to listen to ordinary citizens first. On the 12th of this month, the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National AI Strategy Committee will convene the first Public Deliberation Forum on AI Issues in Seoul, seating one hundred citizens chosen to represent a broad cross-section of the country. They will not be treated as spectators or passive recipients of expert lectures. They will be asked to deliberate, to weigh competing values, and to help shape the direction of national AI policy.…
