Gautama Mehta

Gautama Mehta is the former reporting fellow at Coda Story.

Abortion Italy Drudge Report

Anti-abortion activists launch publication to counter the Drudge Report’s “leftward tilt”

Infodemic: Fake cures from elephant dung to salt to industrial bleach; fraudulent mask exemptions in Spain

Covid-19 brings economic disaster to war-torn Eastern Ukraine

Infodemic: Indian textbook wars and Orban’s attacks on Hungary’s press

Russia Covid-19 doctors

Science & Health

Understaffed health care workers battle Covid-19 across Russia

Lebanon's ban on currency exchange apps fails to stem economic woes

The Infodemic: Junk science in France; the Uyghur lockdown; rising tensions in Belarus

Egypt coronavirus

In Egypt, medics fear raising the alarm on Covid-19

The Infodemic: nursery rhyme outrage; backlash against Germany's Fauci; caste-based hate crimes on the rise in India

The Infodemic: Russia and EU accuse each other of spreading misinfo; Bolivian president turns to pseudoscience; Islamophobic Covid-19 disinfo spreads