There is a quiet, often invisible kind of damage that doesn’t always make the headlines, but it is happening all around us. It begins with a person scrolling through social media and coming across something that seems plausible—a miracle cure, a frightening warning, a smooth-talking “expert” with no real credentials. It ends with a hospital bed, a delayed diagnosis, a worsening illness, or worse. In the North East of England, this is not an abstract threat or a story about somewhere else. According to new research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, almost one in three people…

Imagine scrolling through social media late at night and seeing a headline that seems to confirm your worst suspicion. A wartime president, a man who appears before parliaments asking for billions in military and humanitarian aid, has secretly spent 42 million dollars of Western taxpayers’ money on a private underground bunker in Canada. That was the exact scene in late October when a post on X went viral. The post claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had purchased a 64,000-square-foot bunker in Nova Scotia, and it came with a video news report bearing the Sun’s newspaper logo and a link…