Modi wants to export traditional Indian medicine to the world, but doctors warn against pseudoscience and quack cures Driven by ideology, the Indian government is promoting Ayurveda, a millennia-old system, as a valid alternative to Western medicine. But its “natural” cures are insufficiently tested and sometimes dangerous feature Catherine Davison
AI image generators enable the creation of fake pictures to support fake news Widespread access to new technology will make fact checking and countering disinformation more complex, warns new report q&a Rebekah Robinson
Election disinformation is moving from TikTok to WhatsApp and beyond in Brazil’s election Digital disinformation has played a pivotal role in Jair Bolsonaro’s rise – and it could determine whether or not he stays in power feature Laura Scofield and Nathallia Fonseca
In the Brazilian runoff, evangelical influencers flock to Bolsonaro In polarized Brazil, neutrality is suspicious and ‘Influencers of faith’ must deliver a point of view to their large and growing audience feature Fernanda Seavon
Chinese government finds African scholarship students return home to tell of disturbing experiences China funds thousands of scholarships for African students to come to China, so they can tell “A good China story.” They are leaving China with a worse impression of the country than when they arrived. Is this soft power backfiring? feature Natasha Robinson
In Nicaragua, there are no more newspapers Journalists are either in jail or in exile, as Daniel Ortega sets about destroying the country’s independent media. And the rest of Central America is following in line. feature Isabel Bonnet
'Nobody helped me': Austria shaken by suicide of doctor trolled by anti-vaccine haters Police in Austria downplayed threats and abuse sent to a small-town doctor. Her death is prompting questions across Europe about how to protect people from trolling and bullying feature Emily Schultheis
Nigerian trolls defend the government and gaslight victims An atmosphere of mistrust stokes ethnic tensions as elections in 2023 approach feature Shola Lawal
While the deliberate lies that led to the January 6 insurrection are exposed, misinformation runs riot on social media Increased scrutiny fails to deter extremists and conspiracy theorists q&a Rebekah Robinson
‘It’s too political’: Authorities censor documentary on Georgian oligarch’s Black Sea pleasure park The abrupt decision comes amid internal political tensions triggered by the war in Ukraine q&a Katia Patin
TikTok influencers are dancing, lip-syncing, and posing to promote Russia’s war in Ukraine Despite TikTok’s ban on uploads in Russia, influencers are using it to spread pro-war propaganda. Others are debunking it roundup Mariam Kiparoidze
Ukraine is winning the information war in the West. What about elsewhere? The West believes Zelensky is a PR mastermind and Putin is on the backfoot. In the rest of the world, that view looks different explainer Isobel Cockerell
The medical establishment gaslights doctors, insisting long Covid is 'psychological' Covid long-hauler physicians reject their peers' party line that their symptoms are psychosomatic feature David Tuller
Canceled exhibitions of Russian artists trigger self-loathing, anxiety Amid the Kremlin’s spreading crackdown on freedoms at home, a Russian photographer contemplates life in a country where a rising fascism of “cheap, talentless construction is being imposed on everyone” q&a Alexandra Tyan
A key source for Covid-skeptic movements, the Epoch Times yearns for a global audience A viral purveyor of Trumpian misinformation and anti-science conspiracies turns to Europe. It has already gained traction in Germany, and now eyes expansion in the UK feature Alessio Perrone and Darren Loucaides
