1. A Cold Morning in Kalaroos, Where the World’s Information Crisis Found a Classroom On a crisp Monday morning in Kalaroos, a quiet, far-flung village nestled in the Kupwara district of Kashmir, a group of students filed into the Government Higher Secondary School not knowing they were about to take part in a conversation that has gripped parliaments, newsrooms and social media platforms across the world. The topic was not a lesson from a textbook, though it touched every lesson they would ever learn: how to tell the truth from a lie in the age of the internet. In their…

Sand Springs, Oklahoma, is the kind of place where Monday mornings usually announce themselves gently: a coffeemaker bubbling in a dim kitchen, a school bus wheezing around the corner, a few early commuters waving at each other as they back out of driveways. The neighborhood near 11th Street and Adams Road is not the sort of place where history is expected to happen. But on this Monday, history arrived in the form of a voice over a 911 line—a voice that described a nightmare in a few short sentences. Someone had been shot in the head. The shooter, according to…