Somewhere between a forwarded WhatsApp message and a viral TikTok video, the truth often becomes the first casualty. In Nigeria, where data is relatively cheap and rumors move with the speed of lightning, young people wake up every day to a flood of content that does not come with a warning label. Some of it is harmless gossip; some of it is dangerous nonsense. A health claim that could cause panic, a manipulated video that could trigger violence, a screenshot of a fabricated tweet that could influence an election—these are not rare events anymore. They are the new normal of…

There is a kind of quiet terror that moves through a children’s hospital when news breaks of a disease people thought had disappeared. In Pennsylvania, that terror became painfully real this week as the state recorded its first measles deaths in decades. For many parents, the announcement felt like a jolt from another era—a sudden reminder that the world their grandparents grew up in is not as far away as they once believed. Measles was supposed to be one of those illnesses in medical history books, a disease that vaccines had pushed aside. Yet now, in modern American hospitals, doctors…