Pakistan, April 24 -- It started, as these things often do, over a steaming cup of chai. I was sitting with a friend at a roadside tea stall in Islamabad, enjoying a brief escape from deadlines and digital noise. That's when it happened - we stumbled into a heated argument. Not over politics, sports, or the usual tea-time banter, but over a post he saw on Instagram claiming that Pakistan army planed and attacked on India in mooring also had deployed troops across the Line of Control in response to recent Indian aggression. I looked at him, surprised. I'd seen no such news in any credible outlet. As a journalist, my radar for misinformation is constantly humming, and this one rang all the alarms.

"I saw it myself - a video of soldiers, ta...