1. A Quiet Counterattack in the War on Health Misinformation It used to be that a trip to the library meant hunting for a dusty encyclopedia or a quiet corner to study. But at the University of Alberta, the library has become something far more urgent: a frontline clinic for information health. The new partnership between the University of Alberta and its library network is not about shelving books or polishing databases. It is about squashing the wild, dangerous, and often heartbreaking misinformation swirling around GLP-1 drugs—the class of medications that includes famous names like Ozempic, Wegovy, and other semaglutide-based…

There’s a quiet irony in the way modern scams are built. You’d think that something as deceptive as a fraudulent website would be cobbled together in some dark corner of the internet, using stolen code and sketchy servers. But according to cybersecurity researchers at Malwarebytes, many of these fake sites are being assembled with perfectly legitimate, commercial website creation kits. These are the same kinds of tools that small business owners and hobbyists use every day to put together a clean-looking webpage in an afternoon. The kits come with account management, billing systems, file storage, and all the other administrative…