In an effort to bolster public trust, Israel’s Central Elections Committee is considering a major leap in transparency for the upcoming national vote. Din Livne, the committee’s head, announced that they are exploring the option of live-streaming the entire vote-counting process online. Even though Livne maintains that large-scale fraud is virtually impossible within the Israeli system, he believes allowing the public to watch the process—including the handling of hundreds of thousands of “double-envelope” ballots stored in secure vaults—will help kill off conspiracy theories before they have a chance to take root. While the prospect of watching ballot counting may sound…

The Lagos State Government has recently sounded an alarm regarding a growing trend of misinformation that threatens to overshadow the real, often complex, environmental hurdles the state faces. Officials have observed a deliberate attempt by certain individuals to politicize the sensitive issue of flooding. By circulating archival or completely unrelated images from other states and even foreign countries, these actors are crafting a “destructive narrative” that suggests the state is in a perpetual state of collapse. This campaign of misinformation, according to the government, does not just misinform the public; it actively sabotages the collaborative spirit needed to address legitimate…