Every weekday morning, millions of people wake up not to the sound of a newspaper landing at the doorstep but to the soft glow of a phone screen. They open their favorite social media app and begin to scroll. In the next few minutes, they may see a loved one’s birthday photos, a celebrity news clip, a political speech, a weather warning, and a rumor about a factory fire—all presented with equal visual authority. It is easy to forget that not all of this content is true, or recent, or intended for the audience that is now consuming it. This…

In the heart of Islamabad, on a Thursday that felt less like an ordinary working day and more like a moment of collective reckoning, a group of policymakers, journalists, civil society members, and information commissioners gathered under one roof to confront one of the defining challenges of our time: the integrity of information itself. The occasion was a national dialogue organized by the UNESCO Office in Pakistan, in close collaboration with the Press Information Department (PID), the Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI), and the National Forum of Information Commissioners (NFIC). The atmosphere was charged with a sense of…