In a crisis, what shapes outcomes is not only what happens—but what people hear, who they trust, and how they act on information. “We were going to the local authorities, who are supposed to give us the correct information… but then we realized that the information...
Truth, Trust and Humanitarian Action in the Age of Harmful Information The World Disasters Report 2026 warns harmful information as a de facto humanitarian crisis - undermining access to aid, eroding trust, destabilizing social cohesion and increasing risks...
In a crowded rural health facility in one of the villages of Al-Wahj sub-district, Qatabah district in Al-Dhalea governorate, a father carried his young daughter suffering from severe dehydration after days of untreated diarrhoea. When the doctor asked why they had...
Misinformation and disinformation are often described as defining illnesses of our time. They feel new, overwhelming, and uniquely corrosive. And yet, history tells a more uncomfortable truth: they have always been with us. What has changed is not their...
Harmful information has always been part of crises. To take just one example, the 1918 influenza became the “Spanish flu” not because it began in Spain, but because wartime censors elsewhere kept quiet while neutral Spain’s press reported freely. The misinformation...