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Greens probe conduct complaint against Deputy Leader Mothin Ali

The Green Party told the Exchange at the time that it disputed “this incomplete account” of the alleged altercation. A complaint about Ali was lodged with the Green Party a week later, according to a party official, who…

Jailed Albanian mayor uses AI avatar to make deepfake speech

He denies any wrongdoing. "My hostage situation has been going on for 20 months, and I can only greet you with artificial intelligence,” his avatar says. “I will continue to work even from the cell … I hug you with…

The CIA’s Relationship with Apartheid South Africa | Jerm Warfare

Kuzmarov then traces the fallout in post-apartheid South Africa, where inequality persists and old structures endure. Add in the legacy of surveillance, propaganda, and Cuba's surprising role to help end apartheid.…

Police arrest another British man in RAF Fairford investigation

No improvised explosive devices were found in the vehicles, but investigators recovered a quantity of petrol. On Thursday, Counter Terrorism Policing arrested a 25-year-old British-Iranian man for the same offense as…

Video of Elon Musk warning of water shortage deaths is a deepfake

This is false. The audio in the clip is fake. It was made using artificial intelligence (AI), using an interview Mr Musk gave to Forbes in May that made no mention of water shortages. One Facebook post shared the video…

EU Parliament spat as MEP challenges Metsola’s claims over Israeli flag

She also alleged that the event featured a map depicting a “Greater Israel” and that organizers had told her the Palestinian people and Palestine do not exist. Those claims could not immediately be independently…

Andrew Gimson’s conference sketch: Griffith and the death of the platform speech

First drafts would be composed for her months in advance, by some of the finest wordsmiths in the land. These drafts she would hack to pieces. Her advisers saw wonderful lines which had been fed into the process too…

France’s Le Pen unveils economic platform brimming with eye-watering cuts — but few new ideas

In practical terms, France could still run budget deficits, provided they are small enough for the debt burden to keep falling relative to the size of the economy. Le Pen also said that she planned to introduce a funded…

Lord Ashcroft: Parties and leaders, when will the Conservatives return to government, and should we regulate AI?

Leader performance Voters said Andy Burnham was doing a good job by a 13-point margin, and opinion was closely divided on Kemi Badenoch. Ed Davey was thought to be doing a bad job by a 14-point margin, and Nigel Farage…

Tobias Ellwood: It’s 1937 again – but worse

In the late Thirties, authoritarianism was on the rise. Aggressive powers were rearming, forging alliances and exploiting a timid, risk-averse West, an isolationist America and international institutions powerless to…