There was a time when health advice came from a small cast of characters: your family doctor, a trusted nurse, maybe a parent who had seen a thing or two. Now it comes from everyone. In a world where an Instagram influencer can tell you to drink bleach and a YouTube video can convince you that vaccines contain tracking chips, it is no wonder so many of us feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and just plain suspicious. That is exactly why Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, the calm and reassuring voice behind CTV News’s “Paging Dr. Paul,” spends so much time helping people separate…

OpenAI’s recent disclosure of a takedown reads like a page from a modern espionage thriller, but it’s a sobering reality of the digital age. On Tuesday, the company announced it had severed access for a cluster of accounts originating from Russia, each cleverly masked with virtual private networks (VPNs) to bypass regional blocks. These weren’t casual users tinkering with the chatbot; they were operators running a coordinated influence campaign. Their strategy was simple yet diabolically effective: use ChatGPT as a writing engine to manufacture a veneer of academic credibility around Kremlin-aligned narratives. The central asset they cultivated was a fabricated…