Imagine a patient scrolling through social media late at night, stumbling upon a video claiming that a common household remedy can cure a serious illness. The video has thousands of likes and shares, and it feels convincing. The next morning, that patient asks a nurse, “Is this true? Should I try it?” This scene is playing out in hospitals and clinics every day. False health claims travel across social media far faster than any correction, and the nurses who stand at the front line of patient care are increasingly being asked to sort fact from fiction in real time. A…

Every week, the internet throws up a fresh batch of videos, photographs and captions that are designed to make us feel something before we think. This week, the backdrop is the massive protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. As thousands of students and activists took to the streets, social media became a battlefield of narratives. Some posts were genuine expressions of anger; others were old clips, AI-generated fabrications, or misleadingly captioned moments from unrelated events. The danger is not just that we might share a false story, but that each false story chips away at our…