The recent humanitarian tragedy unfolding in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta has ignited a sharp response from the European Commission, which is now putting tech giants like Meta and TikTok under the microscope. As thousands of migrants flooded the borders of this North African territory, officials in Brussels identified a dangerous trend: the rapid, unchecked spread of misinformation on social media played a direct role in fueling the crisis. EU Commissioner for Digital Affairs Henna Virkkunen has explicitly called on these platforms to take immediate, robust action to safeguard the digital landscape, arguing that the chaotic surge was not merely…

The machinery of Kremlin propaganda often functions like a dark theater of the absurd, where facts are sacrificed to weave elaborate, cynical conspiracy theories. A recent case in point involves the Russian Telegram channel “Bloknot.Kherson,” which peddled a bizarre narrative regarding a drone strike on an ATB supermarket truck in Kherson. The Russians claimed that the supermarket chain itself orchestrated the attack on its own vehicle as a cynical ploy to justify closing its stores in the city. To lend this flimsy story a veneer of credibility, the propagandists hijacked footage from our own news outlet, MOST, carefully cropping out…