Imagine scrolling through your phone and seeing a video of a crowded street with a caption claiming a protest is happening right now in your city. Your heart races. You forward it to family and friends. Then someone checks the facts: the footage is six years old, from a different country, and the situation on the ground is completely calm. That feeling of being tricked is not just annoying; it can have serious consequences, especially when misinformation touches politics, religion, health, or public safety. India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued an advisory taking notice of exactly…

Imagine scrolling through your social media feed and stopping at a headline that makes you blink twice: “Woman approved for MAID because she couldn’t cook.” It sounds absurd, almost like a dark joke. It invites an immediate reaction—outrage, disbelief, perhaps even a bitter laugh. How could a country that calls itself compassionate allow someone to die simply because they weren’t good at making dinner? The headline spreads quickly, shared by people who are already worried about the expanding scope of medical assistance in dying in Canada. It feels like proof that the system has gone too far. But the headline…