By now, most of us have probably seen the clips. On the morning of August 2, 2026, Secretary Kennedy appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and spent twenty minutes locked in a tense back-and-forth with Dana Bash. When I started talking to friends about it, the word we kept coming back to was vitriol. The mask had fallen. There was a kind of raw hostility in the way he dismissed her questions, and it felt familiar in an unsettling way. When Bash pressed him on how his language feeds vaccine hesitancy, he told her she was “repeating it like…

Paragraph 1: The Chaos of the Immediate Aftermath The silence that follows a gunshot is deafening, but the digital roar that erupts in its wake is often louder. In the immediate aftermath of the tragic shooting in Twin Falls, Idaho, the air was thick not only with grief and confusion, but with a torrent of unverified claims, speculative posts, and outright fabrications. As residents huddled for safety and law enforcement scrambled to piece together a timeline, social media became a chaotic battlefield of half-truths. It is in these moments of profound vulnerability that the public’s trust in information is most…