On a mild September evening in Burgess Hill, a small town in West Sussex, the quiet streets outside the old Firgrove care home erupted into something entirely unexpected. More than a hundred people gathered on Keymer Road, some carrying placards, others shouting, some simply watching in confusion and concern. The building itself stood silent, its windows dark, its doors locked, a former place of comfort and care that had closed in 2021. But despite its stillness, it had become the centre of a storm. Social media had ignited with rumours—spread mainly through local Facebook groups—that the property was going to…

In the lead-up to the elections for Latvia’s 15th Saeima, the country’s public conversation was filled with the usual noise of political promises, sharp accusations, and competing visions for the future. But amid the debates, there was also a quieter, more patient work taking place: fact-checkers from the Re:Check project, run by the Baltic investigative journalism outfit Re:Baltica, sat through the arguments and compared the words of politicians against official records, budget documents, and statistics. What they found was not a story of outright conspiracy, but something perhaps more human and more concerning: a series of exaggerations, conflations, and genuine…