The European Parliament is a place built on words. Its members debate, negotiate, and sometimes shout, but they rarely act with their hands. That is why the scene that unfolded on a Tuesday morning felt so jarring. President Roberta Metsola stood before the chamber and told lawmakers that an exhibition marking the October 7 attacks had been disturbed the night before. A member of Parliament, she said, had been filmed “apparently damaging” the display. According to Metsola, the person had thrown an Israeli flag to the ground, dropped a flagpole, and knocked over an EU flag, leaving both flags lying…

Imagine opening your social media feed and seeing two haunting images side by side. On the left, a bridge in Kyiv still smoldering after a Russian missile strike. On the right, the Crimean Bridge damaged after a Ukrainian attack. The caption is always the same: “Why is one tragedy condemned and the other celebrated?” It feels like a fair question, especially to someone scrolling quickly, exhausted by the noise of war. But the Center for Countering Disinformation at Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council has identified this as exactly the kind of manipulation that is now being recorded in both…