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Paragraph 1: The New Face of an Old Threat Election interference is hardly a new phenomenon. For as long as nations have held elections, other nations have tried to influence their outcomes, whether through espionage, propaganda, or diplomatic pressure. But the game has changed, and it has changed in ways…
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On a humid Saturday morning in the capital’s busy Fakirapul area, the air was thick not only with the seasonal heat but also with the urgency of public health. BNP Acting Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi stood among a group of party leaders and volunteers, distributing dengue awareness leaflets to passersby. It was a scene that could have been purely civic-minded, a party reaching out to ordinary citizens with practical advice on how to avoid mosquito-borne disease. But politics, as always in Bangladesh, found its way into the moment. Rizvi, a seasoned political figure known for his blunt rhetoric, did…
It is a disturbing exercise in civic imagination: earlier this year, the Brennan Center asked six of the most popular artificial intelligence tools to generate fake election content, and every single one of them obliged. The machines produced a frightening array of disinformation, including a realistic-looking image of someone stuffing mail ballots into a drop box and an official-sounding memo on United States government letterhead that falsely claimed millions of ineligible voters had been identified. With the midterm elections only weeks away, the same researchers decided to run those identical prompts again. Their goal was simple: to see whether the…
