Taiwan’s National Security Bureau has gone public with a stark warning about the digital battlefield unfolding around the island. In a report submitted to lawmakers this week, the agency said that Beijing has flooded Taiwan with more than 2.5 million pieces of controversial or false information in the first nine months of 2026. That marks a jump of roughly 48 percent from the same period a year earlier, when the figure stood at more than 1.69 million. Behind these numbers lies a sobering reality: Taiwan’s information space is being treated as a target by a sophisticated and increasingly aggressive operation…

By the time the first plumes of smoke rose over the streets of Johannesburg, the damage had already been done—not just to shop fronts and cars, but to the fragile trust that holds a society together. What began as a routine internal circular from the Department of Home Affairs, a memo meant to guide managers preparing to comply with a Constitutional Court judgment on asylum seekers, became something else entirely once it leaked into the public domain. The document did not say that South Africa’s borders were open. It did not say that every foreign national in the world had…