On a Saturday in Mogadishu, inside a government building where diplomatic protocols and camera flashes usually rule, Somalia’s Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Abdifatah Qasim Mohamud, sat down with Deniz Demir, the coordinator of the Center for Combating Disinformation at the Turkish Presidency’s Directorate of Communications. The purpose was to talk about strengthening cooperation against disinformation and misleading narratives. Around them were Somali officials: Abdishakur Ali Ahmed, the director of the ministry’s Strategic Communication Department, and Mohamedkafi Sheikh Abukar, the director of Somali National Television. The official statement after the meeting said the two sides discussed the dangers that…

Punjab’s Information and Culture Minister, Azma Zahid Bokhari, stepped into the fourth meeting of the Information Steering and Review Committee with a clear sense of purpose. It was not just another bureaucratic gathering in Lahore; it was a moment to recalibrate how the province defends truth in an age of digital chaos. As officials took their seats and folders were opened, the minister made her central argument unmistakable: disinformation, hate content, negative propaganda, and anti-state narratives cannot be defeated with last-minute firefighting. They require a coordinated, proactive, and fact-based strategy, one that moves with the speed of the very platforms…