Democracy's Digital Dilemma

Democracy's biggest test isn't happening in one country but everywhere at once. Twenty-five nations

holding elections in 2025 while artificial intelligence writes campaign speeches nobody can verify.

Myanmar votes amid gunfire, Iraq counts ballots under armed guard, and cryptographers

just ran an election they literally cannot decrypt. The twist nobody saw coming: the

systems designed to protect democracy are now its greatest vulnerability. Hackers breach election

infrastructure like it's made of paper, deepfakes flood social feeds faster than fact-checkers

can breathe, and seventy-three percent of women journalists face online violence

for reporting truth. Meanwhile nations scramble to regulate AI that's already rewriting the rules.