In an era when artificial intelligence systems shape how information is produced, ranked, and circulated globally, the politics of data have become central to questions of power and sovereignty. In their article “Feeding the Algorithm: How Nations Shape AI Training Data to Project Power and Influence Global News Narratives,” Nikos Panagiotou and Ioannis Tzortzis introduce the concept of algorithmic diplomacy—the strategic curation, regulation, and dissemination of AI training data by states to project soft power, safeguard epistemic sovereignty, and influence international narratives. As AI training datasets emerge as a new contested epistemic territory, debates intensify over who controls the data that trains algorithms, whose values are embedded within them, and how this reshapes global information flows. Algorithmic Diplomacy and the Politics of Feeding AI brings together the authors and leading experts for an interactive online roundtable to examine these critical questions. Attendees will also have the opportunity to connect with experts in the field, engage in discussions with like-minded participants, and contribute to our call for policy papers on the topics discussed, with the winning submission to be published in Charged Affairs (Charged Affairs – Original Opinion & Analysis From YPFP).