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Don’t believe your lying eyes

Photos, videos not as reliable in the AI era by Parmy Olson A fake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral across Twitter on Monday, and stocks dipped. The incident confirmed what many have said for months: Misinformation is on course to be supercharged as new AI tools ...

When lies pay, and when they don’t

If we thought last week’s 11th-hour settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems was surprising, that was nothing compared to Monday’s shocking announcement that Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News.  Fox’s statement said the conservative media outlet and its ...

Biden admin. notbanning gas stoves

It’s not a surprise anymore when prominent politicians focus their energies on rabble-rousing culture war battles instead of doing the hard stuff of governing, but we still feel compelled to point out when Kansas and Missouri leaders actively mislead their constituents.  That brings ...

Keep up the fight against misinfo

The good news about news consumption during the 2020 election is that fewer Americans were exposed to “untrustworthy websites” — misinformation — compared with the 2016 election, according to a recently released study by Stanford researchers published in the journal Nature Human ...

Musk’s ‘troll heaven’ an advertiser hell

by Dave Lee More than 3 million listeners tuned in for Elon Musk’s interview with the BBC’s James Clayton last Wednesday morning UK time. They heard the Twitter owner dodge and deflect questions on safety, claim the company’s chief executive officer was now his dog, and make ...

In an info vacuum, an oft-repeated rumor can be mistaken for truth

The announcement that North Elementary’s principal and vice principal have been put on leaves of absence came as a shock. A letter was sent to the North community last Tuesday, and The Dominion Post received a copy of the letter a couple days later. When our reporter reached out to Mon ...