Evan Gerskovich disappeared while on a reporting trip in the Russian city of Ykaterinburg. Russia announced that it had arrested him on charges of espionage. The Wall Street Journal has fiercely denied these allegations, which carry a potential sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and will certainly chill foreign reporting in the country. It is startlingly easy to siphon money out of America’s social-welfare programmes, but devilishly difficult to thwart those efforts without threatening needy families. And ChatGPT may make things up, but it does so fluently in more than 50 languages.
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