A Right Royal Rude Awakening: How a Naughty Computer Sent New Zealand into a Panic Imagine this: it’s a perfectly normal day, the sun’s shining (or perhaps it’s raining, this is New Zealand, after all), and you’re just going about your business, listening to your favourite radio station. Suddenly, your ears prick up. A solemn voice, a hushed tone… then the unthinkable. Your local radio station, 3News, a trusted source of information, announces the death of King Charles III. And not just any King, mind you, but the very recently crowned King Charles III. The immediate reaction? A collective gasp…

Imagine a country, Armenia, on the cusp of an important moment—an election that will shape its future. Now, imagine a shadow, a massive, orchestrated effort to twist truths, spread lies, and stir fear, all designed to influence the outcome. This isn’t a scene from a spy novel; it’s a very real and unsettling reality that Euronews’ fact-checking team, The Cube, has painstakingly uncovered. They’ve revealed a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign targeting Armenia’s upcoming elections, an operation so extensive that it makes you wonder about the very nature of truth in our hyper-connected world. Researchers are calling this one of the biggest…