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Deep Fakes: Down the Horrifying Rabbit Hole
On the topic of our tenuous collective relationship with the concept formerly known as “truth,” this examination of “deep fakes,” high-tech simulated video recordings of people you recognize doing...
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Reality: Now Faker Than Ever
In a brilliant and dizzying end-of-year rant, Max Read takes stock of how much of our digital world is constructed from weapons-grade fraud, deception, nonsense, hokum, and miscellaneous bullshit. “How...
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Michael Cohen, Idle Worship
When vanity gets the best of you… 11 Tweets From The Fake Fan Account ‘Stud’ Michael Cohen Paid To Fawn Over Him by Lee Moran HuffPost January 18, 2019 Michael Cohen reportedly hired an IT company to...
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Another James O’Keefe’s Failed Trolling Op
Score 1 for investigative journalism on James O’Keefe‘s botched attempt to discredit The Washington Post on behalf of a Senate candidate and alleged pedophile. “A woman approached The Post with...
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Tracing the Roots of Wishful Thinking
As the year-end recaps gather on the horizon, many will attempt to make sense of Donald Trump’s ascent to the Presidency. Kurt Andersen’s book Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire provides a...
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The Long Overdue Trump Apology
From Liz Plank’s Twitter @feministabulous. Click through to watch this inspired video: The president won’t apologize to women so I did it for him. Related posts: Not #FakeNews, But an Incredible...
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New Dirty Politics: Fake Internet Comments
Fake internet comments may be the only thing worse than real internet comments. “Fake Comments on Trump Administration Website are Trying to Take Down an Obama-era Rule” By Greg Price Newsweek December...
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Disinformation at the Speed of Light
At a time of unspeakable tragedy, Russian propagandists and right wing conspiracy theorists work together to neutralize a rational, well-spoken high school student pleading for safe schools. How the...
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Aviv Ovadya and the Coming “Infocalypse”
In a far-ranging, frightening, and fascinating interview, Buzzfeed News catches up with engineer and tech prognosticator Aviv Ovadya, who anticipated the current scourge of “fake news” and says we...
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Sinclair Broadcasting Screams “Fake News” But They Are Fake News!
Gene Policinski, President & COO of the Newseum Institute, opines on the Sinclair Publishing hostage scenario revealed by Deadspin in a video of news anchors all over the country spouting...
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Behold Instagram’s Digital Conmen
Money, money, money… money. “Oyefeso is one of the most high-profile figures of an internet subculture that reveres Jordan Belfort and has taken his Wolf of Wall Street persona to social media. Posing...
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Google Maps, the Fraud Frontier
It’s the wild, wild west. Why has Google Maps, “plagued by fake reviews, ghost listings, lead generation schemes and impersonators,” barely begun to fight back? These online volunteers fight fake...
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Academic Journalism?
Three academic scholars prove once again that you can’t trust academic journalism, especially when it comes to “grievance studies”. From Vinay Menon in The Star: “They are self-described liberals. They...
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Shooting Fish in a Barrel for Profit
This pathetic story oozes with irony. h/t Felipe & Eli ‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America by Eli Saslow Washington Post November 17, 2018 Christopher Blair, 46,...
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The Best Defense Against a Bad Guy With a Bot
During the 2016 US election cycle, artificial intelligence was wildly successful at spreading lies and propaganda. These researchers suggest weaponizing better bots and aiming them in the opposite...
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Deep Fakes: Down the Horrifying Rabbit Hole
On the topic of our tenuous collective relationship with the concept formerly known as “truth,” this examination of “deep fakes,” high-tech simulated video recordings of people you recognize doing...
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Reality: Now Faker Than Ever
In a brilliant and dizzying end-of-year rant, Max Read takes stock of how much of our digital world is constructed from weapons-grade fraud, deception, nonsense, hokum, and miscellaneous bullshit. “How...
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Michael Cohen, Idle Worship
When vanity gets the best of you… 11 Tweets From The Fake Fan Account ‘Stud’ Michael Cohen Paid To Fawn Over Him by Lee Moran HuffPost January 18, 2019 Michael Cohen reportedly hired an IT company to...
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Sinclair Broadcasting Screams “Fake News” But They Are Fake News!
Gene Policinski, President & COO of the Newseum Institute, opines on the Sinclair Publishing hostage scenario revealed by Deadspin in a video of news anchors all over the country spouting...
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Behold Instagram’s Digital Conmen
Money, money, money… money. “Oyefeso is one of the most high-profile figures of an internet subculture that reveres Jordan Belfort and has taken his Wolf of Wall Street persona to social media. Posing...
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