Early voting had barely begun in Texas when the video hit the internet. It felt like a normal campaign week—candidates shaking hands, volunteers knocking on doors, voters trying to decide. Then, without warning, a clip exploded on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, showing Democratic candidate James Talarico in a damning light. The allegation was misconduct, left vague enough to be dangerous. By the time anyone could verify what was actually true, the clip had already been seen more than 850,000 times. Talarico, a former public school teacher and current Texas state representative, was running in one of the…

There is something unsettling about the way technology is now reshaping the democratic process. In Nigeria, with the next general election set for 2027, the conversation is no longer only about ballot boxes, voter registers, or even election-day logistics. It is increasingly about the unseen battlefield of information, where artificial intelligence can produce a convincing video of a candidate saying something they never said, or an audio clip of an election official appearing to confess to fraud that never happened. Against this backdrop, the International Press Centre (IPC) and the Centre for Media and Society (CEMESO) are joining forces to…