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New: It took me two days, $105 and no expertise whatsoever to launch a fully automated, AI-generated local news content farm with the partisan news coverage framing of my choice. Read about my experience in commentary I wrote for the The Wall Street Journal.
wsj.com/politics/how-i…
NewsGuard's Jack Brewster writes in the The Wall Street Journal about how he launched an AI-generated, partisan local news site for just $105. As Brewster writes: 'The results were impressive—and, in an election year, alarming.'
Read more: wsj.com/politics/how-i…
Before the Baltimore bridge collapse, there was the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse. But the truth survived then.
'The example of the two bridges spans a shift in belief from the authoritative to the groundless,' writes NewsGuard's Jim Warren.
More: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-chec…
In this special edition of Reality Check, we bring you everything you need to know about disinformation surrounding the Moscow terror attack, including how Russia, China, & Iran are spinning the tragedy to spread disinformation about the West.
Read more: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/special-edit…
In today's Reality Check: With the 2024 U.S. presidential election 7 months away, secretly partisan local news sites are expanding their reach.
Plus: An AI content farm plagiarizes the article that called it out for plagiarizing.
Read more & subscribe: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/pink-slime-t…
Is censorship better done by the government or by the tech platforms? Neither, writes Gordon Crovitz. 'People should get control over what they see online, including in social media feeds, search results, and AI responses.'
Read more in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-chec…
A routine American Red Cross questionnaire for potential blood donors morphed into a baseless vaccine rumor peddled by health misinformers with large online followings.
Read more: newsguardtech.substack.com/p/nestle-nesqu…
In today's Reality Check: KFC is falsely accused of insulting Palestinian refugees.
Plus: Navalny widow targeted by deepfakes; AI fuels gender hoax about Macron’s wife; launch of NewsGuard’s 2024 Election Misinformation Tracker
Read more and subscribe: newsguardtech.substack.com/p/kfc-falsely-…
In today's Reality Check commentary, NewsGuard co-CEO Steven Brill writes about the current SCOTUS social media case and how, with Section 230 in place, it will continue giving platforms the freedom to 'edit' recklessly.
Read more & subscribe: newsguardtech.substack.com/p/commentary-s…