Washington, D.C. — The warning arrived not as a dramatic public alarm, but in the quiet, classified confines of a Capitol Hill briefing room. On October 21, Senator Mark Warner and Representative Jim Himes, the top Democratic voices on the congressional intelligence committees, emerged with a message that felt both familiar and deeply unsettling: Russia is actively waging a misinformation campaign aimed at Democrats running in the November midterm elections. The two lawmakers had requested the briefing from Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, eager to know what the intelligence community was seeing in the final stretch before voters head…

Pamela Evette still remembers the first time she saw herself doing something she had never done. In a dim, claustrophobic room, she sat under harsh lighting with sensors attached to her body, her face drawn and anxious. A polygraph machine hummed beside her, tracing jagged lines on paper. Then, as she watched, the machine burst into flames. The video was a political advertisement, designed to make her look deceptive and desperate. In small print, it said the dramatization was generated with artificial intelligence. But Evette, South Carolina’s lieutenant governor, quickly learned that small print was not enough. She told Noticias…