Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
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The internet has become a strange and crowded waiting room. For millions of people, a quick scroll through TikTok or Instagram doesn’t just pass the time—it doubles as a visit to the doctor. There’s a reason healthcare providers have been sounding the alarm: from “nature’s Ozempic” to dangerous sunscreen myths,…
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Imagine checking your inbox and finding message after message from elderly strangers who are convinced you sold them a cure for diabetes. That is Mark Cuban’s reality, and it happens every single week. “Every single week I get emails from little old men and ladies saying, ‘Will my cure for diabetes work?’ or ‘I just ordered your cure for diabetes for $294,’” the 68-year-old billionaire investor said on an August episode of Pivot, the podcast hosted by Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. There’s just one problem: Cuban has never made, sold, or endorsed any diabetes cure. The ads those people…
At 11.30pm on 4 October, along Triq ix-Xatt ta’ Xbiex in Msida, a police road check was quietly underway. The quayside, usually alive with traffic and footsteps during the day, had settled into the hush of late evening. Then a Ford appeared, and officers signalled for it to stop. At the wheel was Auad Obayd Ali, a 23-year-old Syrian national living in Marsa. For Ali, that moment transformed a routine stop into a full-blown legal ordeal. After checking his documents and asking questions, police discovered that he was driving without a valid driving licence and without an insurance policy covering…
