For years, the corridors of Rajasthan’s education department have run on a simple, unspoken currency: the official order. A single piece of paper, stamped and signed, could move a teacher across the desert, reunite a family, or break a career. That trust — the quiet faith placed in the dotted line and the seal of authority — became the foundation of a scam so audacious and so modern that it left school principals, district officers, and even seasoned bureaucrats shaken. The story begins in Ajmer, where Principal Vinay Kumar Jain of the Government Upper Primary School Rail Ki Dang, Meetha…

What if disinformation is no longer designed to fool humans, but to fool the AI systems people increasingly trust? It is an unsettling thought: the lies we worry about online may not be aimed at us at all. Instead, they could be aimed at the algorithms that decide what we see, what we believe, and which voices deserve our attention. This was one of the warnings to emerge from a European Parliament hearing on the future of the information environment, where experts from NATO’s Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gathered to rethink an old…