There are moments in a football season when the league table stops being a list of numbers and becomes a kind of emotional weather. Lazio’s three-point lead at the top of Serie A was exactly that kind of moment. For weeks the conversation had circled around the usual suspects, the wealthy, sensible, glamorous contenders, but football has never cared much for sensible conversations. The team from the capital had slipped into first place the way a quiet guest slips into the best chair: without announcement, without entitlement, and yet with absolute certainty. The Olimpico, which has known both magnificent glory…

When disaster strikes, the last thing anyone wants to think about is whether the information they’re seeing on their phone is true. But in the chaos of an extreme weather event, misinformation can spread faster than the storm itself. It often starts small: someone shares a rumor about government corruption, or an AI-generated photo of a shark swimming through a flooded street. Within hours, that falsehood has been shared hundreds and thousands of times, until it feels real to a huge number of people. The stress and urgency of a crisis make it hard to slow down and fact-check, especially…