1 For years, the story of Plateau State was written in fire and fear. Scroll through any social media feed, and you would see the same grim pattern: burned churches, grieving families, and headlines screaming about a “Christian genocide.” It was packaged neatly, shipped overseas, and sold to an international audience that had no way of checking the details. And for a long time, it worked. The world believed it. But here is the thing about narratives: they eventually collide with reality. And in Plateau, reality has become very inconvenient for the people who profit from the lie. The cotton…

During the High-Level Week of the 81st UN General Assembly, as world leaders gathered in New York to discuss pressing global issues, a jarring piece of “breaking news” began circulating on social media in Sri Lanka. The claim was explosive: Sri Lanka had been summarily removed from the United Nations. The posts, which featured a photo of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake alongside the UN emblem, seemed to play directly on public anxiety about the nation’s international standing, tapping into a vein of uncertainty and concern. The message spread quickly across platforms, prompting confusion, disbelief, and a flurry of worried questions.…