Imagine scrolling through your social media feed late at night and seeing a video of Sarah Jessica Parker looking straight into the camera, her face serious, her voice unmistakable. She says that when she hears about Democrats, she immediately thinks of “corrupt Nazi whores,” and then she tells you that if you love America, you should never vote for them. It feels absurd, like a parody or a strange dream. But the video looks real, and for anyone who does not know better, it is convincing enough to share. This is the latest front in a Russian disinformation campaign aimed…

Coronation Street spoilers follow. There is a particular kind of dread that settles over a house when grief turns into manipulation, and that dread is now living in the Metcalfe home. The teenager at the center, Lucy Parkinson, has been placed there after her mum Rachel died, and what should have been the beginning of healing has instead become a quiet war of nerves. At Rachel’s funeral, Lucy showed almost no emotion. She did not weep, did not need to be supported down the aisle. She stood at the graveside with a strange, glassy stillness, and the effect was more…