In an age where information travels at the speed of a click, the battle against misinformation has become one of the defining challenges of our time. Social media platforms, once celebrated for connecting humanity, now find themselves under intense scrutiny for their role in spreading falsehoods, especially during elections. Out of this crisis emerged a seemingly elegant solution: crowdsourced fact-checking. The idea was simple and appealing—instead of relying on a small team of professional fact-checkers, let the users themselves flag misleading content and add context. Elon Musk’s X platform, formerly known as Twitter, embraced this concept with its “Community Notes”…

On a late October morning in Hanoi, a gathering of scientists and experts came together at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, to talk about something that affects nearly everyone in the modern world: the gap between those who can use digital technology confidently and those who are left struggling on the other side of that invisible line. At the international conference “Digital Divide and AI Capabilities,” Dr. Phan Van Kien, Director of the Institute of Journalism and Communication Training, presented a piece of research that was less about numbers and more about real lives. He…