In March 2021, after almost one year away from home, I finally went to see my family in India. During the time I had spent away from home, I had started working in the realm of disinformation monitoring, and witnessed the surge of hoaxes and inaccuracies about the pandemic taking over social media. On my first night back in India, while watching TV with my parents, my mom’s phone started buzzing. Annoyed, I picked up her phone, only to realise she’d received a torrent of Covid-related messages on WhatsApp. I looked through her messages in shock.There it was, right in front of me, a deluge...…In March 2021, after almost one year away from home, I finally went to see my family in India. During the time I had spent away from home, I had started working in the realm of disinformation monitoring, and witnessed the surge of hoaxes and inaccuracies about the pandemic taking over social media. On my first night back in India, while watching TV with my parents, my mom’s phone started buzzing. Annoyed, I picked up her phone, only to realise she’d received a torrent of Covid-related messages on WhatsApp. I looked through her messages in shock.There it was, right in front of me, a deluge...WW…