The Truth Gap: How Social Media’s Scale Is Overwhelming Journalism (and the truth)
AI generated content and algorithm-driven social media are overpowering traditional news sources in a trend the sees no slowing down. The Washington Post is cutting a third of their staff. It is a significant number and a significant moment in journalism. Since 1877, the Post has been a pillar of investigative journalism, earning numerous Pulitzer Prizes…
Deception
Adapted from Data Duped: How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation The Deception In 2003 Elizabeth Holmes had a brilliant idea. She recently left Stanford University and was raising money for her new company. Her plan was a never-before-attempted approach to health care testing that would discover, and presumable preemptively treat hundreds of diseases from…
Our Truth Insecurity Has Arrived: AI and Misinformation Reach a New Level
What do you know to be true? And can you spot an AI-generated news story or online video? A recent video posted on X and reported by NBC News of an American company distributing food aid to the people of Gaza sparked an online debate about what was real and what was not. Beyond the facts of…
Open Your Eyes to the Truth: The Mess of Misinformation
I am not sure how we got here. That is saying something from a person like me who thinks a lot about data and misinformation and even wrote a book about it with Jeff Camm – Data Duped: How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation. We have been advocating for everyone to build their own…
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