Misinformation has a way of hiding in plain sight, especially when it does not look like the clean, text-only articles that many fact-checking tools were built for. In Bengali digital media, fake news rarely arrives as a simple paragraph. It travels as memes with punchy slogans, screenshots of news pages, eye-catching posters, and photographs with bold Bengali script pasted across them. That creates a serious problem: most automated detection systems are designed to read either text or images, not both, so they miss most of the evidence. A new study tries to fix that gap by introducing the Context-Aware Multimodal…

In the heart of Marawi City, where the echoes of a long and painful siege have slowly given way to rebuilding, the Amai Pakpak Medical Center has always been more than just a building of white walls and crowded corridors. It is a refuge. It is the place where mothers from distant barangays arrive at dawn, clutching their children, hoping that somebody—anybody—will see them and treat them with dignity. For thousands of residents in Lanao del Sur and the surrounding provinces, this hospital is a symbol of resilience, a reminder that the government has not abandoned the people in their…