On election night in Alberta, as the numbers from a provincial referendum began to flash across the screens of the official Elections Alberta website, a quieter but more disturbing story was unfolding on social media. People were scrolling through the live results on X, formerly known as Twitter, and seeing patterns that did not make sense to them. Some noticed that one referendum question seemed to have far more votes counted than the others. Others noticed that the total number of votes reported seemed to exceed the number of eligible voters in the province. In a moment of heightened political…

There are some headlines that make you stop mid-sentence, and “18-year-old Georgia jailer faces kidnapping, false imprisonment charges” is exactly that kind of headline. When WSB-TV first shared the news, the words seemed to belong to a different world, a true-crime drama or a gritty movie plot, not a quiet county courthouse in Georgia. You read the words again, slowly, trying to make the numbers fit. Eighteen. Jailer. Kidnapping. False imprisonment. One of these things does not belong. A jailer is someone who holds keys to a cell block, someone with a uniform and a duty to keep people locked…