On Tuesday, New Hampshire voters will walk into their polling places and be asked to settle a fight that has been building for years. It is a fight about property taxes, public schools, and the delicate question of who should decide how much a community spends on its children. The debate over Question 2 has been loud, aggressive and full of political spin, with both sides pressing hard to sway the undecided and more than a little propaganda thrown into the mix. Supporters say it is a desperately needed brake on property tax increases that have outpaced people’s ability to…

Imagine scrolling through your social media feed one morning and seeing a video that makes your blood run hot—a politician caught in a lie, a foreign soldier supposedly invading a neighboring country, or a religious group accused of plotting against your community. Your first instinct is to share it, to warn your friends, to express your anger. But what if none of it was true? What if it was crafted, financed, and targeted specifically to make you feel that way, not to inform you, but to manipulate you? That is the reality of disinformation in Africa today. Disinformation is not…