There are moments when political rhetoric cuts through the noise and captures something deeper, and Andy Burnham’s response to Vladimir Putin’s disinformation campaigns is one of those moments. The Greater Manchester Mayor did not mince words. He called the Kremlin’s efforts to sow division in the UK “repulsive and insidious,” and his fury was not abstract. It was directed at a very real form of warfare—one that targets minds and emotions, not soldiers and cities. Burnham’s warning came against a backdrop of growing concern inside government that hostile states, Russia chief among them, have been waging an invisible war on…

Imagine waking up one morning to a voice note from a relative urging you not to vote because “the election has been cancelled,” or watching a video of an electoral official confessing to a fraud that never happened. It sounds like the plot of a dystopian film, but Nigeria’s electoral commission says this is exactly the kind of scenario that could become common in the 2027 general elections if citizens are not careful. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has issued a serious warning: the misuse of generative artificial intelligence is no longer a distant or theoretical threat, but a…