Jordon Steele-John has spent much of his public life fighting for people who have been pushed to the margins. As a Greens senator, he has spoken with raw honesty about the experience of living with disability, about the violence and neglect that disabled people too often face, and about the systems that fail them. So when he stood before the public this week to deny allegations of inappropriate conduct, he did not sound like a politician reading a carefully crafted statement. He sounded exhausted, defensive, and, above all, deeply human. Steele-John says that false allegations have been made against him,…

In an age where information travels at the speed of a click, the line between truth and falsehood can sometimes blur—but the damage caused by a careless report remains sharp and real. This was made painfully evident when ABP News, one of India’s most prominent news networks, issued a public apology after acknowledging that a report concerning folk singer Neha Singh Rathore, carried on ABP Network’s digital platform, was factually incorrect. The apology, however, did not come easily. It followed a storm of protest, a pointed challenge from the singer herself, and a larger conversation about how media organizations wield…