On a Thursday morning in Lagos, a roomful of journalists and social media influencers gathered for something far more consequential than chasing headlines or boosting engagement. They had come together for a training session on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, better known as PrEP, organised by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). The atmosphere was part classroom, part public health mission. The people in the room were being asked to become bridges between medical science and real life, to translate clinical facts into stories that Nigerians can understand and act on. The officials leading…

The Syrian Digital Battlefield: Unmasking the Organized Media Campaign Behind the As-Suwayda Massacres In the aftermath of the catastrophic violence that engulfed Syria’s southern governorate of As-Suwayda in July 2025, a grim picture has emerged—one that extends far beyond the physical bloodshed into the treacherous realm of digital manipulation and organized propaganda. A new, expanded joint investigation by Suwayda Press and Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) delved deep into the media and digital discourse that accompanied these massacres, exposing a calculated effort by official transitional authority platforms and their allied media outlets to shape public perception, stoke sectarian hatred,…