At a moment when falsehoods travel at the speed of a click and truth often labours to catch its breath, Motunrayo Alaka, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, stood before Nigeria’s broadcast professionals and asked them to do something both simple and difficult: verify. Speaking in Bauchi State at the third yearly national conference of the Society of Nigerian Broadcasters (SNB), Alaka did not offer comfort. She painted a picture of an information environment growing more complex by the day, where technology has made the production and circulation of false information easier…

In a world already drowning in misinformation, the Kremlin’s response to uncomfortable truths has become a masterclass in what experts call foreign information manipulation and interference, or FIMI. The strategy is not to invent a single tidy lie, but to flood the information space with a churning chaos of contradictory claims, half-truths, and outright distortions, hoping that clarity itself becomes impossible. Nowhere is this more chillingly visible than in Russia’s ongoing campaign to rewrite the history of the Bucha massacre, a crime against humanity that has been documented by journalists, forensic investigators, international bodies, and countless survivors. When Russia’s Foreign…