Max de Haldevang

One of Russia’s international state broadcasters, which reports in over 30 languages, seems to have found a new beat: aliens.

One might think clarity is important when announcing the death of your country’s president. Especially if your country is the largest in a powder-keg-like region. But in Uzbekistan—ranked 166 out of 180 in Reporters Without Borders’ press freedom index—things are…different.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg began his first visit to Nigeria on Aug. 30—a country of 182 million people whose GDP quadrupled between 2005 and 2015. But many Western headlines, including one by CNN, highlighted not that he was visiting Nigeria, but “sub-Saharan Africa.”