A conversation that doubles without a catalyst is no longer tracking events — it is tracking fear. The AI regulation beat has crossed that threshold: the source signal documents near-doubled post volume over 24 hours against a source record set that contains no AI policy news whatsoever. European Parliament symbolism [1], Polish electoral interference allegations [3], and African border surveillance operations are not AI regulation stories, but they are circulating in the same information environment that the regulation conversation now claims as its own. The policy debate has become…