Taiwan’s intelligence community is sounding an unusually loud and specific alarm as voters prepare to go to the polls in local elections on 28 November 2026. On 20 October 2026, the National Security Bureau sent a written report to the Legislative Yuan, ahead of a session of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, where Director-General Tsai Ming-yen is expected to face questions from lawmakers. The report, made public through Taiwan’s Central News Agency, says Beijing is pouring more effort, money, and machine power into shaping the island’s public conversation than ever before. Behind the dry bureaucratic phrase “disputed messages”…

On election night in Alberta, as the numbers from a provincial referendum began to flash across the screens of the official Elections Alberta website, a quieter but more disturbing story was unfolding on social media. People were scrolling through the live results on X, formerly known as Twitter, and seeing patterns that did not make sense to them. Some noticed that one referendum question seemed to have far more votes counted than the others. Others noticed that the total number of votes reported seemed to exceed the number of eligible voters in the province. In a moment of heightened political…