Welcome to the ‘Borax Challenge’

Among the fistfuls of reporting threads I’ve kept gripping over the years are two topics that recently converged in a TikTok story: health misinformation online and viral challenges. Welcome to the “borax challenge,” where people are drinking borax in water

Facebook bombarded cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments

There’s one misinformation sphere I’ve returned to a few times as a reporter: promises of miracle cancer “cures” targeting patients at their most vulnerable, via social media ads, online support groups, and recommendation algorithms. A couple of years before Covid-19,