Imagine scrolling through your social media feed in the middle of an election season. You see a post claiming that voting machines are being hacked, or that voter rolls are full of fraudulent names. It looks alarming, it fits a narrative you’ve heard before, and within minutes it’s being shared by hundreds of people. This is the modern reality of political misinformation—a flood of false claims that moves faster than any human fact-checker can track. And with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, the problem has only gotten worse. AI can produce endless variations of convincing content in seconds, making…

When an Ebola outbreak strikes, the first danger is usually invisible, and it is not the virus. It is the rumour. In the time it takes for a single case to be confirmed, a more contagious story can already be moving through markets, mosques, churches, WhatsApp chains, and late-night phone calls. Public health officials may have vaccines, protocols, and laboratories, but they cannot outrun a lie that has already been shared a thousand times. In Nigeria, where the federal government recently confirmed a new case of Ebola disease in Abuja, the memory of 2014 makes the stakes painfully clear. During…