In Jos, Plateau State, a room full of Muslim and Christian religious leaders, media professionals, and community influencers gathered recently for something more urgent than a routine workshop. With Nigeria’s 2027 general election still a couple of years away, they were already confronting a storm: a polluted information landscape in which false stories, manipulated images, and foreign interference are increasingly difficult to distinguish from truth. The two-day event, organised by Alkalanci, a fact-checking and media literacy organisation, in collaboration with the Institute for Media and Digital Innovation (IMDIL), carried the theme “Scaling Faith-Based Resilience Against Disinformation and FIMI.” The goal…

There is a quiet, often invisible kind of damage that doesn’t always make the headlines, but it is happening all around us. It begins with a person scrolling through social media and coming across something that seems plausible—a miracle cure, a frightening warning, a smooth-talking “expert” with no real credentials. It ends with a hospital bed, a delayed diagnosis, a worsening illness, or worse. In the North East of England, this is not an abstract threat or a story about somewhere else. According to new research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, almost one in three people…