It is not often that the world’s largest social media company gets a loud public warning from a body it created to keep it honest. But that is exactly what happened in mid-September, when Meta’s independent oversight board urged the tech giant to stop and reconsider its plan to replace professional fact-checking with a crowd-sourced system known as Community Notes. The message was firm: “We urge Meta not to consider community notes a direct replacement for fact-checking.” For regular users, this may sound like a niche policy debate. But it touches something deeply personal—the future of what we see, what…

On a damp September morning, thousands of miles from the country that once knew him as the King of Good Times, Vijay Mallya was not going quietly. The fallen airline tycoon, now a permanent fixture in Britain’s legal and media landscape, returned to his favourite battlefield—social media—to launch yet another offensive against the Indian agencies that have pursued him for years. In a string of posts on X, Mallya insisted that he was the victim, not the villain, of one of India’s most dramatic financial sagas. He reminded his followers that he had been branded a fugitive, but argued that…