For anyone who has watched a rumor mushroom into a family group chat argument, or seen a grainy video falsely labeled as current events race across a country’s timeline, the news out of Meta this week felt like a quiet shift in the tectonic plates of the internet. The company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and Threads announced it is testing a system called Community Notes in 16 Latin American countries, a move that would effectively replace professional fact-checking with crowdsourced user reviews. As of now, the rollout is still a trial, and for a little while longer, accredited newsrooms and…

In the business of public image, a single sentence can be more dangerous than a cancelled venue. That is the irony at the centre of John Malkovich’s decision, announced on September 10, 2026, to pull out of a planned performance in Tel Aviv. The Oscar-nominated actor was scheduled to appear at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium on April 13, 2027, in a production called The Music Critic, a classical music and theatre collaboration with violinist and composer Aleksey Igudesman. For Malkovich, this was supposed to be a work meeting—another stop on a tour he says has already taken him through 47…