This reading list is not a neutral collection of academic studies about misinformation. It is a map of power, memory, and pain. At first glance, it looks like a bibliography on “disinformation,” but the authors refuse to treat fake news as a technical bug or a psychological quirk. The list includes platform studies and communication research, but it also reaches into feminist theory, critical race studies, public health, and colonial history. This cross-disciplinary approach itself is a statement: misinformation cannot be understood outside the unequal structures that produce it. The syllabus opens with Abhishek’s critique of propaganda research that overlooks…

Alex Murdaugh’s long and twisting legal saga has entered another critical chapter, and this time the fight is not about whether he pulled the trigger, but about whether the system that indicted him played by the rules. Attorneys for the disgraced former South Carolina lawyer are asking a circuit judge to throw out the murder and weapons indictments against him, alleging that investigators manufactured forensic evidence, presented false testimony to grand jurors, and leaked a discredited blood-spatter claim to the press long before Murdaugh was ever formally charged. In a memorandum filed on Friday, October 30, 2026, the defense laid…