Elon Musk has forcefully denied claims that he cut off his transgender daughter Vivian from health insurance after she came out. The accusation came from his ex-wife Justine Wilson, who speaks about the family rupture in Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk, released in New York and Los Angeles on October 9, with a nationwide rollout planned for October 16. TMZ first reported Wilson’s claims, and the story quickly became another chapter in the endlessly public saga of the Musk family. In response, Musk wrote: “This is utterly false. At no point did I remove Xavier from health insurance.” The fact that…

On October 7, 2026, the quiet town of Machakos, Kenya, became a meeting point for some of the most important voices in the Horn of Africa. Journalists from Kenya, South Sudan and Somalia, representing both mainstream and digital media outlets, gathered for a three-day regional workshop hosted by the IGAD Leadership Academy. The occasion was not simply a training session; it was a response to a growing crisis in democratic life: the rapid spread of misinformation. As the room filled with editors, reporters, fact-checkers and digital content creators, there was a shared understanding that the craft of journalism was being…