At its heart, the recent statement from South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs is a plea for calm, clarity, and collective responsibility in the face of a swirling storm of misinformation. The department found itself in the unusual and uncomfortable position of having to publicly correct a narrative that had apparently taken on a life of its own—a narrative claiming that a Constitutional Court judgment had somehow thrown open the country’s borders, granted asylum seekers automatic citizenship, or offered foreign nationals a blanket path to legal status. These claims, the department said bluntly, are “categorically false.” For ordinary South Africans…

Politics can feel like a blur of attack ads, viral posts, and carefully packaged outrage, but every once in a while a claim is so specific and so personal that it stops you mid-scroll. This is one of those moments. A new website linked to the Republican Attorneys General Association is pushing the accusation that Nevada Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro, the Democratic nominee for attorney general, gave her husband’s client $26 million. The blunt, accurate answer is simply no. Cannizzaro did not give anyone $26 million, let alone a client of her husband, Nathan Ring. The claim is based…