Bangladesh’s Brazil–Argentina rivalry is not just football. It reveals how recognition, online spectatorship, masculinity, and public humiliation can turn sporting loyalty into a grammar of collective cruelty.
Artificial intelligence is transforming misinformation from isolated falsehoods into scalable systems of synthetic reality production. In South Asia, where rapid digitalization intersects with political polarization, emotional publics, and uneven institutional trust, the challenge increasingly extends beyond “fake news” itself. This essay argues that misinformation and AI-driven disinformation should not be understood merely as technological problems but as socio-political processes embedded within digital sociality and struggles over legitimacy. Drawing upon anthropology, communication studies, and digital theory, the essay examines how platforms increasingly shape public life, how AI destabilizes trust, and how digital diplomacy transforms contemporary power. Ultimately, the future security crisis of South Asia may concern not only territorial conflict but also the erosion of shared realities necessary for democratic life.
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly shaping not only technology but also public life, visibility, trust, and power. In a recent public discussion, I explored why AI governance in Bangladesh should move beyond purely technical debates toward broader questions of accountability, ethics, and society.
বাংলাদেশের ডিজিটাল জনপরিসরে যৌন সহিংসতা, ধর্ষণের হুমকি এবং অনলাইন মব আচরণ আর বিচ্ছিন্ন ঘটনা নয়; এগুলো ক্রমে দৃশ্যমান, পুনরাবৃত্ত এবং স্বাভাবিকীকৃত এক সামাজিক বাস্তবতায় পরিণত হচ্ছে। একটি ছোট জরিপের তথ্য দেখায়, social media যেমন জনরোষ ও সচেতনতা তৈরি করে, তেমনি victim-blaming, misogyny, ridicule এবং coordinated attack-এর মাধ্যমেও সহিংসতাকে পুনরুৎপাদন করে। ফলে ডিজিটাল প্ল্যাটফর্মকে শুধু ন্যায়বিচারের বাহন নয়, বরং বিচার ও সহিংসতা—উভয়ের দ্বন্দ্বময় অবকাঠামো হিসেবে পড়তে হবে।
Why does violence remain politically survivable despite exposure, documentation, and global scrutiny?
This essay introduces PINPF to explain how power absorbs violence through diffusion, digital mediation, and the production of killability in contemporary Bangladesh.
Grievance, Justice, and Moral Breakdown After July, social media in Bangladesh stopped being just a platform. It became a living memory—where grief, justice, documents, and moral judgment collide in real time Abstract In post-July Bangladesh, social media has emerged as a central arena where grievance, protest, and moral judgment are remembered, contested, and re-activated. This…
How subalternity, social media, and religion intersect in Bangladesh, producing Islamophobia, Islamo-fascism, and new forms of authoritarian power.
In 2013, Bangladesh’s politics changed forever—not in parliament, but on Facebook. The Shahbag movement created the country’s first digital street, where legitimacy was produced through visibility, circulation, and attention rather than organisations or party hierarchies. Thirteen years later, as the 2026 election approaches, that unresolved digital terrain has become the central battleground of politics—louder, faster, and far more manipulated, but still decisive.
How misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation shape elections not only by spreading falsehoods, but by governing fear, silence, and moral belonging in digital political life.