Here is the humanized and expanded version. — Fiji is a place of impossible beauty, a scattering of emerald islands in a vast blue ocean, known to the world for its coral reefs, its welcoming smiles, and its easygoing rhythm of life. But behind this postcard image, a quiet and increasingly urgent crisis is unfolding, one that is testing the limits of the country’s public health system and demanding a new kind of courage from its people. The nation is in the grip of a surging HIV outbreak, and the numbers are alarming. According to Dr. Jason Mitchell, the chairman…

Four years ago, Wisconsin Watch took a leap of faith. We published our first Fact Brief in partnership with Gigafact, a tiny experiment meant to do something deceptively simple: answer suspicious claims with a clear yes or no. We called it the “fight for facts,” and at the time, none of us knew how much that fight would come to define our newsroom. Since then, we have published nearly seven hundred short, no-nonsense responses to claims we spotted floating around the infosphere—some surprising, some dubious, some simply too strange to ignore. The mission was never to win an argument or…