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Updated 23:30 90 stories today from 3 outlets 180 questions answered

Today’s briefing

Written 20:30 by the desk from 10 stories.

  • Armenian civil society groups are running media literacy work as disinformation and propaganda grow more sophisticated with generative AI, in a country moving away from its long reliance on Russia 18.
  • Anthropic has disclosed an AI-linked influence operation that Democratic Republic of the Congo journalists had missed: about 70 AI-generated websites published at least 318 articles on the eastern conflict, relations with Rwanda and disputed mineral resources 2.
  • A UN report confirms that Venezuela's repressive system remains active and documents how medical neglect in state custody led to the death of regional leader and politician Alfredo Díaz 3.
  • Trinidad and Tobago's Privy Council has overturned a 2025 Court of Appeal ruling and found the colonial-era "buggery laws" unconstitutional, in a case brought by Jason Jones after a decade-long legal battle 5.
  • Thousands of Ecuadorian students have protested against President Noboa's temporary job plans, demanding lasting solutions for public healthcare, education funding and rising insecurity 6.
  • Gabon has restored social media access after more than eight months without it, though the stories indicate this came at a cost 10.
  • Students in Cameroon's North West Region are running school gardens using regenerative methods such as minimal tillage, composting and fruit-tree grafting, which may support local food security 7.

Written by AI from the stories it cites; it can be wrong. Ask the desk a question

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