One in five Australian under-16s still used TikTok and Snapchat after 4.7 million accounts were restricted, according to a parental-control firm. Other governments are copying the approach with no evidence yet that it makes children safer.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption50
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence35
Bangladesh's first-dose measles coverage stood near 97 percent in 2019, second-dose near 93, and the country was heading toward elimination. What has followed since March is its deadliest measles outbreak since 2005.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives42
- Confidence61
UNICEF's chief statistician says six frontier models averaged 21.2% accuracy across more than 133,000 questions about development indicators, and the UN's answer is a portal that hands agents the numbers with their sources attached.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption57
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence58
UNICEF's snapshot covers one year in 106 countries and counts students reached by a hazard, a smaller measurement than school days lost. The one-in-ten framing implies a base near 1.7 billion students.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
The 21-country survey hands regulators a prevalence figure instead of an anecdote. Under 1% of cases were ever reported, which is why in-app report volume is the wrong yardstick for the teams being judged.
Reality
- Evidence63
- Adoption30
- Hype gap−5
- Incentives58
- Confidence57
Nearly $2 billion of US global health assistance is moving through faith-based channels, with $850 million to a single grantee. The work now is subaward plumbing, not rhetoric.
Reality
- Evidence33
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives72
- Confidence38