Picture a room full of journalists in Dubai, notebooks open and cameras ready, listening to a senior Emirati official speak plainly about a threat that most people cannot see but many have felt: the quiet, relentless hum of fake accounts churning through social media. Abdulla bin Mohammed bin Butti Al Hamed, Chairman of the UAE’s National Media Authority, did not sugarcoat the scale of the problem. He told the audience at the UAE Correspondents’ Majlis that more than 11,000 new social media bots were created in October 2026 alone. Eleven thousand in a single month. He called it “a huge…

In the closing weeks of one of the most tightly watched congressional races in the country, a Pennsylvania Democrat is fighting not just for votes but for his good name. Bob Brooks, a retired firefighter and union leader from Bethlehem, has spent his life serving his community—first in uniform, then at the bargaining table, and now on the campaign trail. But in a 30-second television ad paid for by his Republican opponent and national party allies, Brooks is accused of something far more serious than political disagreement: criminal misconduct. The ad claims Brooks ran a lawn-care and snowplowing business without…