To understand how X is evolving, we have to look past the technical jargon and focus on how we consume information in the digital age. For years, the internet operated on a “wait and see” approach to misinformation: platforms would tag a post as misleading and hope that, by some stroke of luck, the original reader would wander back and catch the correction. It was a passive, largely ineffective strategy. If you shared a post that turned out to be false, you were essentially left in the dark, believing the information you’d just broadcast to your followers was accurate. X,…

The recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina have been marred by a concerning drift toward opaque governance. As a journalist who is mostly deaf, I have observed a disturbing pattern: state agencies are increasingly relying on ephemeral verbal communication—such as podcasts—while simultaneously scrubbing their own public digital records. When the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) released a podcast episode in November 2025 regarding disaster-era misinformation, it lacked a transcript, creating an immediate accessibility barrier for the hearing-impaired. By failing to provide written documentation, the government doesn’t just alienate those with disabilities; it avoids the very…