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fromABC7 Chicago
5 days ago

Inspector Clouseau? The mystery man in an AP photo after the Louvre jewel heist creates a buzz

PARIS -- It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when Paris-based Associated Press photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by uniformed French police officers, their car blocking one of the museum gates. Instinctively, he took the shot. It wasn't a particularly great photo, with someone's shoulder obscuring part of the foreground, Camus told himself.
France news
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
5 days ago

Fact check: Has Germany canceled Christmas markets in 2025? DW 10/25/2025

All German Christmas markets are not canceled for 2025; most will open in late November and over 2,500 markets operate annually.
Miscellaneous
fromZDNET
6 days ago

Get your news from AI? Watch out - it's wrong almost half the time

Leading AI chatbots frequently distort news, with 45% of responses problematic and some systems showing major accuracy and sourcing failures threatening public trust and democracy.
Media industry
fromAbove the Law
6 days ago

Before Advocating To Repeal Section 230, It Helps To First Understand How It Works - Above the Law

Repealing Section 230 based on anecdotes and misunderstandings would significantly harm online free expression and damage journalism that relies on platform protections.
fromeuronews
6 days ago

Rise of political influencers sparks questions about ad regulation

The rise of political influencers - content creators on social media who sway public opinion by endorsing political causes or candidates - has raised questions about how best to regulate them, a German media regulator said in a study published Monday. EU rules for political advertising, aimed at countering information manipulation and foreign interference in elections, and at increasing transparency about sponsors, but political influencers fall outside that scope, have entered into force this month.
Miscellaneous
fromLGBTQ Nation
6 days ago

White House website posts topless pic of trans woman in response to critics of East Wing destruction - LGBTQ Nation

The White House website has a timeline of "Major Events" that now includes several scandals - some real, some imagined by the right - likely as a way to justify the president's destruction of the East Wing this week. These scandals include former President Bill Clinton's affair, former President Barack Obama's supposed ties to Muslim terrorism (which was not a real story), Hunter Biden's drug use, and former President Joe Biden's support for trans rights.
US politics
fromVulture
1 week ago

One and a Half Days at Aaron Sorkin's Canadian January 6

It was quite the sight in general but especially unnerving at a moment when Canadian-American relations are so deep in the toilet that they're in the Pacific Ocean. Word on the street is that Aaron Sorkin is to blame. Reports were circulating online that his latest project, The Social Reckoning, began filming in the city on Monday, October 20, and he apparently kicked things off by reenacting the January 6 insurrection on Canadian soil.
US politics
#ai-deepfake
fromFuturism
1 week ago
US politics

Republican Candidate "Debates" Opponent By Sincerely Arguing With AI Deepfake For Nearly an Hour

fromFuturism
1 week ago
US politics

Republican Candidate "Debates" Opponent By Sincerely Arguing With AI Deepfake For Nearly an Hour

US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Revealed: police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats

An erroneous rumor that Tren de Aragua ordered attacks on U.S. police circulated among U.S. agencies before the FBI later acknowledged it was inaccurate.
#ai-generated-content
fromSnopes
1 week ago
Music

Did Barbra Streisand sing 'God Bless America' in response to anti-American chants at NYC concert?

fromSnopes
1 week ago
Music

Did Barbra Streisand sing 'God Bless America' in response to anti-American chants at NYC concert?

#ai-hallucinations
fromArs Technica
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

When sycophancy and bias meet medicine

AI-generated fabricated citations undermine research replicability and public trust in health policy, scientific findings, and legal proceedings.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago
US politics

Conservative activist sues Google over AI-generated statements

Robby Starbuck sued Google alleging its AI falsely generated and widely disseminated severe defamatory accusations about him.
#ai-assistants
#deepfakes
fromIndependent
1 week ago
Miscellaneous

Catherine Connolly files complaint to Electoral Commission over viral AI deepfake videos on Facebook that generated 160,000 views

fromFuturism
3 weeks ago
Tech industry

Jake Paul Invites Users to Fake Him on Sora, So They Immediately Use It to Make Him Gay and Obsessed With Makeup

fromIndependent
1 week ago
Miscellaneous

Catherine Connolly files complaint to Electoral Commission over viral AI deepfake videos on Facebook that generated 160,000 views

fromFuturism
3 weeks ago
Tech industry

Jake Paul Invites Users to Fake Him on Sora, So They Immediately Use It to Make Him Gay and Obsessed With Makeup

#ai-safety
fromFuturism
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown

fromFuturism
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown

#ai-deepfakes
fromIndependent
1 week ago
Miscellaneous

Electoral Commission contact Facebook over viral AI deepfake videos of Catherine Connolly that generated 160,000 views and hundreds of interactions

fromIndependent
1 week ago
Miscellaneous

Electoral Commission contact Facebook over viral AI deepfake videos of Catherine Connolly that generated 160,000 views and hundreds of interactions

#deepfake
fromIndependent
1 week ago
Miscellaneous

Electoral Commission contacted Facebook over viral AI deepfake videos of Catherine Connolly that generated 160,000 views and hundreds of interactions

AI deepfake videos targeting Catherine Connolly amassed over 160,000 Facebook views, including a fabricated withdrawal announcement, prompting Electoral Commission intervention.
fromFuturism
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Police Issue Warning About "AI Homeless Man" Prank

Teens use AI deepfakes to create fake images of homeless people in family homes, causing panic, 911 calls, and law enforcement warnings.
fromIndependent
1 week ago
Miscellaneous

Electoral Commission contacted Facebook over viral AI deepfake videos of Catherine Connolly that generated 160,000 views and hundreds of interactions

#ai-generated-video
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: The guardrails are not real'

Sora 2's social feed enabled rapid spread of realistic AI-generated videos, including violent, racist, and misleading content despite platform content prohibitions.
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

I've fallen into Sora's slippery slop

OpenAI's Sora creates ultra-realistic 10-second AI videos and likeness "cameos," quickly becoming viral while raising misinformation, safety, and internal-concern risks.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Vicious and Depraved': Tucker Carlson Slammed for Pushing Conspiracy Theory That Jews Were Made Immune to Covid-19

Tucker Carlson and a guest promoted a claim that Covid-19 was engineered to affect Jews differently, prompting condemnation and criticism from conservatives.
fromZDNET
1 week ago

What Bill Gates really said about AI replacing coding jobs

In doing so, we went down a series of rabbit holes, finding site after site cross-quoting other sites with the same basic message. We finally found one reference to a French podcast that Gates might have been on as a guest, although we were never able to find the podcast itself. Because The Economic Times and MSN are both outlets with some credibility, all the other sites appear to have taken their Bill Gates quotes at face value.
Artificial intelligence
Public health
fromHigh Country News
1 week ago

Want fluoride in the water? Too bad. - High Country News

Local leaders pushed to remove fluoride from Pasco's water amid a federal rollback and misinformation, threatening increased dental decay and pain.
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

Why this unhinged Donald Trump post defines his entire presidency - LGBTQ Nation

THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Trump Drops Whopper In Rant To Reporters As He Heads For Mar-a-Lago

Trump falsely claimed Democrats spend $1.5 trillion on health care for undocumented immigrants; fact-checks show the amount refers to broader debt increases, not immigrant benefits.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

UK MPs warn of repeat of 2024 riots unless online misinformation is tackled

Failure to address online misinformation and unchecked AI-generated content risks repeating misinformation-fuelled unrest similar to the 2024 summer riots.
US politics
fromBuzzFeed
1 week ago

RFK Jr. Just Ranted About Teen Boys' Sperm, And I Have So Many Questions

Claims that teenagers now have halved sperm counts/testosterone and that girls reach puberty six years earlier lack supporting evidence and contradict published studies.
fromSnopes
1 week ago

Campbell's 'customer service' response to homophobic post is just decade-old satire

The image purportedly captured an exchange between a user and what appeared to be a Campbell's customer service account. The comment read, "Your new commercial with the 2 dads makes me sick," and the response stated: "Hi Kim! If you're feeling sick, we suggest enjoying a delicious can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup. Make sure to enjoy it hot, so that it can help warm up your cold, dead heart." The exchange was accompanied by a caption reading, "Campbell's doesn't f*** around."
Food & drink
Marketing tech
fromFast Company
1 week ago

I helped build the internet's ad economy. Now I want to save it

The ad-driven internet is collapsing as AI-generated content floods feeds, users become the product, journalism loses value, and the advertising economy that funded media is failing.
fromWIRED
1 week ago

The Blurred Truths of Sora

As a purely creative instrument, Sora, the new AI video app from OpenAI, is a game changer. Dream up any scenario and it appears in an instant. Freddy Krueger as a contestant on Dancing With the Stars. Mr. Rogers teaching Tupac Shakur the lyrics to the legendary rap diss "Hit Em Up." But just as its innovations are remarkable, so is Sora's potential for genuine harm.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Trump's anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts it's an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee

Facts are becoming less sacred by the day in Donald Trump's US, where many of his supporters now deny the very existence of truths. To them, inconvenient evidence is by definition bias. His followers and those who fear his fist are falling into line: media, universities and that infamous regiment of tech zillionaires who stood right behind him on inauguration day.
US politics
US politics
fromBoston.com
2 weeks ago

GOP Super PAC posts doctored image of Healey, ties racist caricature to migrant policies

A no-limit super PAC posted a doctored Halloween-themed image mocking Gov. Maura Healey and criticized her migrant policies while backing Brian Shortsleeve.
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
2 weeks ago

Fact check: No, there is not a new survey showing trans identity is decreasing

Transgender and nonbinary identification in America increased over the last two years; a reported decline was caused by a massive statistical and methodological error.
Information security
fromDataBreaches.Net
2 weeks ago

The Alliance That Wasn't: A Critical Analysis of ReliaQuest's Q3 2025 Ransomware Report - DataBreaches.Net

No verifiable evidence exists that LockBit, DragonForce, and Qilin formed an alliance; claims are speculative and unsubstantiated.
fromMashable
2 weeks ago

Elon Musk's X will display which nation users post from

"When you read content on X, you should be able to verify its authenticity," Bier posted on X. "This is critical to getting a pulse on important issues happening in the world."
Privacy professionals
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

Kamala Harris Bizarrely Boasts She May Have Been 'Most Qualified' Presidential Candidate 'Ever'

Kamala Harris said many consider her the most qualified U.S. presidential candidate and attributed her 2024 loss to limited voter familiarity, misinformation, and identity-related challenges.
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

X plans to show more information about user profiles to help improve trust | TechCrunch

The idea is that by exposing some of these details, users will be able to make a more informed decision about whether someone is operating an authentic account or if they're possibly a bot or bad actor attempting to sow misinformation. For instance, if an account's bio claims they're based in a U.S. state, but their account information shows it's based overseas, you may suspect the account has another agenda.
Privacy technologies
US politics
fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

Believing misinformation is a "win" for some people, even when proven false

Some people endorse misinformation to signal symbolic strength or loyalty, valuing provocative assertions over factual accuracy.
fromwww.ocregister.com
2 weeks ago

Do California redistricting ballot envelopes reveal your vote? Debunking social media rumors

At issue is the envelope provided for ballots to be returned either by mail or at a drop box or vote center. Counties are in charge of printing the ballots and mail voting materials (including the return envelope), and some have opted to include small punched holes on the envelope to help visually impaired voters find where they need to sign in order for their ballot to be counted.
California
LGBT
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Doing it for themselves

Trans people face escalating legal, social, and medical hostility while relying on community-driven information and verification amid misinformation and inadequate healthcare training.
#social-media
US news
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

In rural America, scarce doctors battle misinformation as they practice medicine

Political attacks and misinformation are undermining patient trust, complicating care, and worsening physician recruitment in rural communities.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

May I Finish?' Cheryl Hines and The View's Sunny Hostin Throw Down Over Hines's Husband RFK Jr.

Sunny Hostin and Cheryl Hines clashed on The View over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s suitability to lead HHS amid concerns about vaccine skepticism and misinformation.
fromLos Angeles Times
2 weeks ago

California ballot design prompts false conspiracy theories that the November election is rigged

The small holes on ballot envelopes are an accessibility feature to allow sight-impaired voters to orient themselves to where they are required to sign the envelope," Weber said in a statement released Monday.
California
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

How to Train Yourself to Be More Open-Minded

A brief social-norms reminder warning about five reasoning traps significantly increases actively open-minded thinking and improves the ability to distinguish facts from falsehoods.
Books
fromBig Think
2 weeks ago

The world's largest library of lies has good news about fake news

Historical literary forgeries reveal methods for identifying misinformation and show that deceptive information has existed since the origins of writing.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Fact check: Disinformation surges amid Gaza ceasefire DW 10/13/2025

Not all female Israeli hostages were killed; many women were released in earlier exchanges and Israeli authorities say no living hostages remain in Hamas captivity.
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Fact check: Disinformation surge amid Gaza ceasefire DW 10/13/2025

On October 7, 2023 Hamas attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages to the Gaza Strip. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (updated on June 22, 2025), a total of 57 deceased hostages have been brought back to Israel so far. Israel says that the bodies of at least 27 killed hostages who were abducted on October 7 are still being held by Hamas.
World news
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 weeks ago

How Can Philosophers Rebuild Trust in Science?

Unchecked misinformation on social media undermines trust in science, fuels conspiracy theories, harms public health, and impedes informed decision-making.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Swimming Australia moves to shut down Mollie O'Callaghan fake quotes' about transgender athlete

Swimming Australia identified fabricated quotes falsely attributed to Mollie O'Callaghan about Lia Thomas and requested removal of the posts from social media.
Public health
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Tylenol Claims Are a Microcosm of Trump and RFK's Wider Attack on Public Health

The MAHA commission promoted an ungrounded Tylenol–autism claim that reflects patriarchal, anti-science, autonomy-eroding, and stigmatizing public-health priorities.
#youtube-policy
Public health
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

Did a South Korean study really claim that COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer?

A South Korean cohort study found statistical correlations between COVID-19 vaccination and higher diagnoses of cancers within one year, but results were misrepresented as causal.
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

AI bots are everywhere now, filling everything from online stores to social media. But that sudden ubiquity could end up being a very bad thing, according to a new paper from Stanford University scientists who unleashedAI models into different environments - including social media - and found that when they were rewarded for success at tasks like boosting likes and other online engagement metrics,the bots increasingly engaged in unethical behavior like lyingand spreading hateful messages or misinformation.
Artificial intelligence
Tech industry
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

Instagram head Adam Mosseri pushes back on MrBeast's AI fears, but admits society will have to adjust | TechCrunch

AI will expand who can create by lowering production costs, while increasing misuse risks and blurring lines between real and synthetic content.
#autism
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

Instagram head Adam Mosseri pushes back on Mr. Beast's AI fears, but admits society will have to adjust | TechCrunch

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said AI will change who can be creative, as the new tools and technology will give people who couldn't be creators before the ability to produce content at a certain quality and scale. However, he also admitted that bad actors will use the technology for "nefarious purposes" and that kids growing up today will have to be taught that you can't believe something just because you saw a video of it.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 weeks ago

YouTube is letting some previously banned users return. That means you may see videos that violated old rules

The move was announced following an investigation by Republican lawmakers into whether the Biden administration pressured tech companies to remove certain types of content. YouTube said that over the past couple of years, it did away with rules that had prohibited users from repeatedly posting misinformation about Covid-19 and the 2020 US election outcome. Now, users terminated for breaking those rules have the chance to return.
Tech industry
#press-freedom
Media industry
fromPoynter
2 weeks ago

At Media Party, journalists and technologists search for balance in an AI-driven future - Poynter

Media Party promotes embracing technology—especially AI—while keeping humans central to build a sustainable, human-centered future for journalism.
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Trump, the Self-Styled "President of PEACE" Abroad, Makes War at Home

For months, Donald Trump has presented himself as the very incarnation of a global peacemaker, touting an ever-changing list of international conflicts that he claims to have settled. Sometimes it has been six, sometimes as many as ten. "I ended seven wars," the President told the U.N. General Assembly last month, "and in all cases they were raging, with countless thousands of people being killed," which was not true but has not stopped Trump from repeating it.
World politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks ago

Trump Ends Scattershot Vaccine Rant With Stunning Declaration On His Non-Doctor' Cred

Donald Trump linked autism increases to vaccines, recommended spacing or reducing vaccine doses, and advised pregnant women and newborns to avoid Tylenol while asserting non-medical authority.
fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

Reporting the Truth When Politicians Lie

When President Donald Trump delivered a barrage of false statements about climate change during his September 23 speech to the UN General Assembly, he made headlines around the world. Mocking climate change as a "con job" promoted by "stupid people," Trump's remarks also illustrated a dilemma facing journalism's traditional approach to covering politics, where not appearing to take sides has long been a cardinal rule. As more and more political leaders and movements mirror Trump's habit of making factually inaccurate claims, a new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism offers a fresh way to think about this dilemma, along with a host of practical tools for tackling it.
Media industry
US news
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

A voltage surge, not excess solar or wind generation, caused the massive outage across Spain, Portugal, and parts of France.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
3 weeks ago

Striking a Balance: Reconciling Democratic Citizenship and Epistemic Agency

Responsible epistemic practices can paradoxically weaken democratic participation and shift power in ways that harm democratic governance.
US politics
fromwww.dw.com
3 weeks ago

Fact check: Is Gen Z leading a US church revival? DW 10/08/2025

Generation Z attendance increased slightly, with typical Gen Z churchgoers attending 1.9 weekends per month—no evidence of a widespread Gen Z-driven church revival.
US politics
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

AOC says people are being 'algorithmically polarized' by social media

Algorithms and social media have intensified political polarization since 2020, creating algorithm-driven echo chambers across the political spectrum.
Medicine
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr's Autism 'Cure'

A Facebook group for leucovorin surged after FDA approval and was flooded with misinformation, affiliate spam, conflicting medical advice, and conspiracy-driven posts.
Media industry
fromPoynter
3 weeks ago

Poynter launches AI Innovation Lab to house its growing AI portfolio - Poynter

Poynter launched an AI Innovation Lab to provide journalists and the public with strategy, ethical guidance, training, research and tools for navigating AI-driven media.
fromPoynter
3 weeks ago

People used AI to make dozens of fake celebrity tributes to Charlie Kirk. Millions believed them - Poynter

According to YouTube posts, the celebrity tributes were plentiful. They came from Ed Sheeran, Eminem, Taylor Swift, Celine Dion, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Post Malone, Dax, Lil Wayne, Jelly Roll, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber and Imagine Dragons. But none of them were real. They were all generated using artificial intelligence. And they often featured fake thumbnail images that showed the artists in tears or with mournful expressions.
Artificial intelligence
US politics
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Taylor Swift Never Said She Was Anti-AI

Taylor Swift emphasizes control over her image amid fears about AI-generated deepfakes and fan scrutiny of possible AI use in her album promotion.
fromNon Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
3 weeks ago

Putting the "Us" Back in Trust: Media in Filipino American Diaspora Communities - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

If you or your loved ones have ever been sick, you may have encountered a Filipino medical professional at the clinic or hospital-a nurse, doctor, or lab technician-or perhaps an in-home caregiver or staffer in an assisted living facility. This is because Filipinos are disproportionately represented in the healthcare sector-for example, 4 percent of US nurses are Filipino, though Filipinos make up only 1 percent of the population.
Public health
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Sora provides better control over videos featuring your AI self

Sora adds user controls to limit how AI-generated deepfake doubles appear, offering content and appearance restrictions while risks of misuse and weak safeguards remain.
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks ago

CNN's Van Jones Apologizes for 'Dead Gaza Baby' Rant

On Friday night's edition of Real Time on HBO, Jones said: Iran and Qatar have come up with a disinformation campaign that they are running through TikTok and Instagram that is massive. If you are a young person, you are opening up your phone, and all you see is dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, Diddy, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby. The comments received heavy criticism as Jones was called out for turning dead children into a punchline.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks ago

That Is A Lie!' CNN's Abby Phillip Comes Down On Scott Jennings Over Trump Shutdown Talking Point

President Donald Trump and the Republicans have blamed Democrats for the government shutdown by pushing the talking point that, as Trump put it in an AI-generated fake video, Democrats want to give all these illegal aliens free health care. Although that claim has been ruled false by numerous fact-checkers, Vice President JD Vance joined the White House briefing on Wednesday to press the same talking point and try to backfill an explanation with some patter about emergency care.
US politics
Intellectual property law
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Horrific Sora 2 Video Shows Sam Altman Grilling a Dead Pikachu

Sora 2's viral user-generated clips primarily produce meme-like, often misleading content and raise serious copyright and misinformation concerns.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks ago

Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson's Loony Conspiracy Theories Totally Wreck the Credibility That Alternative Media is Trying to Gain

Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson reach large podcast audiences while promoting debunked conspiracy theories that erode alternative media credibility and deepen societal misinformation.
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

The government is shut down but Trump's social media feed is working overtime | Fortune

On Thursday morning, as thousands of federal employees stayed home and faced potential layoffs because of the government shutdown, President Donald Trump got right to work on social media. He started by sharing praise from supporters. Then he falsely claimed that "DEMOCRATS WANT TO GIVE YOUR HEALTHCARE MONEY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS." And then he announced that he would meet with his top budget adviser to figure out where to make permanent cuts to federal programs that "are a political SCAM."
US politics
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