The world of online political warfare has taken a bizarre and surprisingly effective turn, and it involves Lego, former President Donald Trump, and some surprisingly sharp Iranian propagandists. Imagine a caricature of Trump, rendered in those familiar plastic bricks, trudging through the digital rain from a building marked “Hormuz Strait.” He’s looking pretty down, then he hops into a Lego limousine, sips a Diet Coke (of course), and even snuggles a little blonde Lego girl. All of this plays out to a catchy, taunting tune that sticks in your head: “Look in the mirror / tell me what you see…

In the wake of Bangladesh’s most severe measles outbreak in decades, a storm of misinformation brewed online, alleging a government cover-up of child fatalities directly linked to the disease. These claims, amplified by the political party of the ousted premier Sheikh Hasina, painted a grim picture of official deceit, suggesting that hospitals were instructed to deliberately withhold data on measles-related deaths. The narrative, spread through social media, specifically a Bengali-language post on Hasina’s Awami League party’s Facebook page, asserted that the government had ordered hospitals and clinics across the country to suppress reporting on child deaths due to measles. This…