Umer Ali

As hundreds of thousands of Afghans are coerced into returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan, journalist Umer Ali examines the online hatred that has helped poison attitudes to refugees.

While the name Junaid Hafeez adorns the honour board at Jackson State University, he himself lies on a concrete floor in a jail cell, waiting for his case to inch forward.

Umer Ali writes an in-depth account of the spread of fake news and malicious propaganda in online spaces, which endanger lives and divides the already polarised society.