Change is rarely a quiet thing in wartime, and the news that Andriy Kovalenko is stepping down as the head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) arrived with the kind of understated gravity that has become familiar in Kyiv these days. The announcement came not through an official ceremony or a lengthy government statement, but through Kovalenko’s own Telegram channel, a fitting medium for a man whose entire professional life has been spent in the invisible trenches of the information war. In his message, Kovalenko said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had accepted his resignation, and he took care…

Imagine waking up, scrolling through your phone, and stumbling upon a health claim that seems too perfect to be true: a miracle cure for a chronic condition, a scary warning about a vaccine, or a weight-loss injection that promises life-changing results with no side effects. For many people in the UK, this is not a hypothetical scenario—it is part of daily online life, and sometimes it leads to real decisions, and real regret. A new report from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), titled Health Misinformation: Public Perceptions of Threat to the UK, released on 28 September…