On Election Day in Israel, the democratic act of casting a ballot was shadowed by something far less visible but just as powerful: a sprawling, coordinated assault of misinformation designed to confuse, provoke, and erode trust. A new study from FakeReporter, an Israeli disinformation watchdog, reveals just how ugly that digital battlefield became. Over the course of a single day, false and manipulated content amassed more than three million views across social media platforms, fueled by artificial intelligence, political opportunism, and even foreign interference. The findings are not simply a catalog of deceptive posts; they are a unsettling portrait of…

Behind every official statement and diplomatic cable, there are human beings whose lives are being bent to fit a political script. That is the reality emerging from reports that Afghanistan’s Taliban-run intelligence agency, the General Directorate of Intelligence, has begun forcing detained Afghan nationals to record false confessions. These are not willing witnesses or repentant militants. They are ordinary people, or at least people caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, who now find themselves in dark rooms facing interrogators who demand that they say things that are not true. According to sources, the detainees are being pressured…