In a recent conversation on CNN’s Inside Politics, Maryland Senator Angela Alsobrooks spoke candidly about something that has been worrying families across her state: the sudden, unsettling rise in measles cases. It’s not just a statistic for her—it’s about real children, real parents, and the mounting confusion many of them feel when trying to decide what’s safest for their kids. Sitting down with Dana Bash, Alsobrooks didn’t hesitate to point a finger at a force she believes is fueling this outbreak: the flood of misinformation around vaccines, spread in large part by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…

As the countdown to Kenya’s next general election intensifies, a palpable tension hangs over the nation’s media landscape. It is not merely the usual political jostling or the adrenaline of campaign trails that has journalists on edge, but a far more insidious and technically sophisticated adversary: the deepfake, the manipulated narrative, and the flood of algorithmically weaponized misinformation. In the era of generative artificial intelligence, the line between reality and fabrication has become terrifyingly porous. It is in this charged atmosphere that the Media Council of Kenya (MCK) has sounded a clarion call, cautioning journalists against the seductive pitfalls of…