Clarity is an act of resistance: Why I wrote ‘The Noise War Handbook’

I woke up startled, at about 3 a.m. on Oct. 25, 2025.

The room was dark and still, but my mind was not. It was the kind of wake-up you snap into it, as if someone has shaken your shoulder and said, “Pay attention. This matters.”

In 24 hours, I would be on a plane to Brussels, headed for a critical disinformation conference filled with fellow journalists, content creators and fact-checkers — the architects of anti-disinformation narratives. People with slides. People with frameworks.