For Hany Farid, the question of what happened at that Iranian school was never just a question of politics or war. It was a question about whether we can still believe our own eyes. Last February, a Tomahawk cruise missile struck an elementary school in Iran and killed more than 150 people, most of them children. President Trump initially floated the idea that it might not have been an American missile, saying a Tomahawk is “very generic” and sold to other countries. Then Iran released video that they said proved otherwise. Farid, a Dartmouth College professor and co-founder of the…

On a quiet Sunday in Islamabad, Pakistan’s cybercrime authorities made an announcement that is likely to shape how the country navigates the digital world for years to come. The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency, widely known as NCCIA, declared that it has created dedicated units in every region with one clear mission: to confront fake news and anti-state propaganda. The move was presented as a necessary step to protect the country from the dangers of misinformation, online deception, and coordinated attempts to destabilize public trust. Ali Nasir Rizvi, the agency’s director general, underscored the official mood when he said there…