The digital age has brought with it a new and insidious form of warfare, one that targets not soldiers or physical infrastructure, but the very fabric of public trust and political stability. This was starkly illustrated in a recent incident involving the website of Radio PiK, a local radio station in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz. In a brazen act of cyber sabotage, hackers infiltrated the station’s online platform and published a completely fabricated article, a disinformation piece designed to sow discord and national animosity. The false story alleged that Poland was planning to seize a portion of the Czech…

On a Thursday morning in Lagos, a roomful of journalists and social media influencers gathered for something far more consequential than chasing headlines or boosting engagement. They had come together for a training session on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, better known as PrEP, organised by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). The atmosphere was part classroom, part public health mission. The people in the room were being asked to become bridges between medical science and real life, to translate clinical facts into stories that Nigerians can understand and act on. The officials leading…