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Facebookopoly: Meta’s info empire

by Seth David Radwell In the world of social media, Facebook is ubiquitous. Coming from humble beginnings as a Harvard student’s pet project, it’s now expanded to 2.89 billion users worldwide, making it the largest social network by 600 million users. A recent Pew Research study ...

NewsGuard tested ChatGPT’s potential for misinformation

by Jim Warren The Oscar-nominated short film “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It” could be the name for Silicon Valley’s latest gift to Western civilization — and to many practitioners of misinformation. The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT ...

Tucker Carlson, Joe Biden and whale beachings

We aren’t whaleologists — actually, the term is cetologist; we just looked it up — but neither is Tucker Carlson. So take it with all the grains of salt in the ocean when the Fox News gasbag blames Joe Biden for an elevated rate of whale deaths off the Atlantic Coast. Carlson’s rant, ...

Media literacy can help democracy

While the internet has increased access to information and has often been a force for good, it has also contributed to making many people misinformed, uninformed and even radicalized. That’s why it is welcome news to see New Jersey become the first state in the country to require schools ...

Misinformation got an $8 upgrade

When Elon Musk purchased Twitter, he was quick to lay off staff, scare off advertisers (though not intentionally) and whine about possible bankruptcy. As part of his (not-well-thought-out) plan to keep the social media giant afloat, Musk and Twitter started selling blue verification check ...

Chief Twit Musk makes disastrous start

by Parmy Olson Elon Musk has wasted no time in showing the world that Twitter Inc.’s new sheriff is in town — or rather its “chief twit” is. That was his new Twitter bio last week when he walked into the company’s San Francisco headquarters holding a sink, a gag prop for a ...