In a harrowing account shared recently, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg opened up about a traumatic experience that crossed an unforgivable line: the weaponization of his children for political gain. Buttigieg revealed that he and his husband, Chasten, were subjected to a malicious, anonymous report claiming he posed a danger to their four-year-old twins. The local authorities in Traverse City, Michigan, acting on these fabricated allegations, arrived at the family’s home to investigate. While the accusation was quickly proven to be entirely baseless, the damage to the family’s sense of security was profound, marking what Buttigieg described as one…

In our increasingly interconnected digital age, the United Kingdom finds itself in a precarious position regarding national security. A sobering new report from Cardiff University’s Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute has revealed a significant blind spot: there is currently no reliable, standardized framework to track or estimate how foreign state-sponsored disinformation campaigns actually affect British society. While we are constantly bombarded by headlines warning of cyber-meddling, we lack the internal tools to discern which threats are merely noise and which are actively corrosive. We are essentially navigating a complex, high-stakes information war using a compass that hasn’t been calibrated…