Jilali, M. A. Why Pakistan’s Tech Journalists Need More Technical Depth: Pakistani Fact-Checkers Found That Four Out of Five Viral Claims They Investigated in the past Two Years Were False or Misleading, and AI-Related Fact-Checks Rose Sixfold in a Single Year — Yet Most Newsrooms Still Assign the "technology Beat" to Whichever Reporter Is Free, Not to Anyone Trained to Tell a Real Breach from a Rumour or a Genuine Model Release from a Marketing Stunt. PakTech 2026, 1, i-ii.