For two months, Jennifer Pritchard did not simply dislike her former husband; she set out to destroy him. From a Facebook page she created called “Jen’s Justice,” the 47-year-old woman from Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent posted a stream of vicious falsehoods about Stephen Pritchard, a serving South Wales Police sergeant. She called him a rapist. She called him a baby killer. She repeated claims of domestic violence and other criminal acts, none of which were true. Her ex-husband was not an abuser; he was a victim—not of physical violence, but of a calculated, sustained campaign of online harassment designed to…

In the hazy, brutal landscape of modern warfare, truth is often the first casualty—but now it is being replaced by something more insidious: convincingly fake victory. According to a new report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russian military and propaganda channels are increasingly leaning on videos created or manipulated with artificial intelligence to claim they have captured Ukrainian towns and villages. These aren’t just amateur edits or clumsy photoshops; they are carefully crafted digital illusions meant to look like authentic drone footage, soldier selfies, or flag-raising ceremonies. The ISW, which has been tracking Russian military operations…