On September 22, 2026, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham stood before the United Nations General Assembly and delivered what may go down as one of the most confrontational speeches by a British leader in recent memory. It was his first major address on the world stage, and he used it not to celebrate diplomacy but to declare a new kind of fight: a fight against the global misinformation machine orchestrated by the Kremlin. Burnham denounced an “industrial-scale assault” on information, a coordinated effort by hostile actors to push “a narrative of decline, stoking division and sowing despair.” He did not…

Somewhere in Edmonton, a person is scrolling through social media late at night when a video appears: a friendly-looking stranger holding a bottle of herbs, promising a “miracle cure” for a disease they’ve been quietly worrying about. The video has thousands of shares. The comments are full of gratitude. It feels personal, hopeful, and urgent. So they share it too—not because they want to deceive anyone, but because they want to protect the people they love. This is how health-care misinformation often begins: not with malicious intent, but with a deeply human desire to help. The University of Alberta and…