With Election Day just a heartbeat away—less than three weeks now—the air is thick with anticipation, but also with a new, unsettling kind of danger. New York Attorney General Letitia James has stepped forward to sound the alarm about a threat that isn’t a candidate or a policy, but something far more insidious: artificial intelligence. In a world where seeing is no longer believing, James is warning voters that AI-generated misinformation is spreading like wildfire, and it’s becoming harder than ever to tell fact from fiction. Her office has just released an updated guide designed to help New Yorkers not…

Picture a classroom full of six-year-olds, not just learning their ABCs, but learning how to spot a lie online before it spreads. That is exactly the scene UNESCO and its partners are trying to create with a brand-new workbook designed for children aged six to ten. At a lively event in Abuja on Thursday, the “Young Truth Detectives” workbook was unveiled, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. In an age where misinformation, fake news, hate speech, and online dangers are everywhere, this little book is being positioned as a powerful shield for the youngest digital citizens. The…