by Jim Warren “I am Democratic candidate for president,” says Kamala Harris on the startling video, “because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility at the debate.” “This is amazing,” Elon […]
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Russian disinfo targeting elections
What do the recent elections in France and the upcoming election in America have in common? They’ve been the targets of a concerted Russian disinformation campaign. France has been the […]
Deepfakes will hijack your brain — if you let them
by F.D. Flam Realistic AI-generated images and voice recordings may be the newest threat to democracy, but they’re part of a longstanding family of deceptions. The way to fight so-called […]
Denigrating media a political mainstay
by Llewellyn King In the 1990s, someone wrote in The Weekly Standard — it may well have been Matt Labash — that for conservatives to triumph, they had to attack […]
Will 2024 be the year fake news destroys democracy?
by Mihir Sharma In 2024, democracy will face a test for which it is unready. For the first time since the internet age began, the world’s four largest electoral blocs […]
How to spot ‘fake news’
by Jessi Hollis McCarthy Let’s talk about “fake news.” You’ve likely heard the term before. It can be used to describe false content masquerading as actual reported news. It […]
AI can have a place in news, but it will never be a journalist
How will the news and journalism industries handle generative artificial intelligence? That’s the kind of broad and long-ranging question that it’s too soon to answer, mostly because we’re just seeing […]
Who gets fooled by fake news?
In not-so-breaking news: The University of Cambridge reports that people who primarily get their news from social media are less likely to be able to distinguish real headlines from fake […]
Visual misinformation is widespread on Facebook — and often undercounted by researchers
by Yunkang Yang, Matthew Hindman and Trevor Davis How much misinformation is on Facebook? Several studies have found that the amount of misinformation on Facebook is low or that the […]
Chatbots created hundreds of ‘news’ websites
by Jim Warren Consider Hollywood’s evolving villains over the years: Nazis, Russians, South African white nationalists, Middle Eastern terrorists, South American drug lords, dinosaurs, aliens, Wall Street cutthroats and, now, […]
