Let’s be honest about what’s happening around Caitlin Clark right now, because it’s getting a little absurd. If you’ve followed women’s basketball at all over the past two years, you’ve watched a generational talent break records, sell out arenas, and turn a league that was already growing into a full-blown cultural phenomenon. And yet instead of celebrating that, we’re hearing media voices like Cari Champion, a former ESPN anchor, tell us that Caitlin Clark is an “avatar for people who want to spread hate.” She’s gone on podcasts with Jemele Hill and Bakari Sellers and suggested that Clark’s fans are…

Somewhere between a forwarded WhatsApp message and a viral TikTok video, the truth often becomes the first casualty. In Nigeria, where data is relatively cheap and rumors move with the speed of lightning, young people wake up every day to a flood of content that does not come with a warning label. Some of it is harmless gossip; some of it is dangerous nonsense. A health claim that could cause panic, a manipulated video that could trigger violence, a screenshot of a fabricated tweet that could influence an election—these are not rare events anymore. They are the new normal of…