Evolving Media & News Sources

Misinformation spread by adversaries and AI

Also, using AI to recognize it.
10-1/2 minutes, plus a one-minute self-promotion at the end:

MEIDAS TOUCH
(Trigger warning, pendulum swinging back to Lefties?)

I start this youtube video several minutes in, leaving 7-minute out take:

(I still hate the hyperbolic headlines, but they’re successfully grabbing lots of clicks. These guys are headed toward a million subscribers.)

Google inks deal with The Associated Press to bring more real-time info to Gemini

In a bid to make its Gemini chatbot app more of a one-stop shop, Google says it’s working with The Associated Press to build “a feed of real-time information” in Gemini.

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Google, which has a longstanding partnership with The Associated Press, is but one of man…

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I like SAN because of their attempt to give unbiased news, and sometimes point out biased “news” as in the following video. I think the biases are obvious to most of us, so it seems to me the question is, why do people keep watching and supporting these news orgs?

In any case, I avoid watching news more these days, and rely more on either short…[Read more]

Reg posted this story first, but it’s worth mentioning here, too!

Evidence suggests Russia has been deliberately targeting journalists in Ukraine — a war crime

[Established in 1938, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard administers the oldest fellowship program for journalists in the world. More than 1,300 journalists of accomplishment from 88 countries have received…[Read more]

Katherine Wu, writing for The Atlantic, has been called “alarmist” when writing about covid. But come on, over a million people have died now! (Perhaps alarmism made science/medicine deniers just close their ears and get stupider?)

I jump 13-1/2 minutes into the following yt vid, starting at the meat of her interview. Other timestamps:

26:24…[Read more]

I just added a science-oriented source of news, a podcast, This Week in Virology. See the post above this announcement post.

Unseen wrote:
I apologize if there may be one or two duplicates of sources already mentioned.

Awesome, thanks! No apology needed, at all. Dupes in a topic like this are just reinforcements.

The following goes for everyone:
Feel free to add links to any topic or post that exists elsewhere on AZ… just paste link(s) into any topic here, or create…[Read more]

I’m here to offer reasonably honest and reliable “alt” sources. I apologize if there may be one or two duplicates of sources already mentioned.

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The Seymour Hersh Substack
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/
Hersh is a highly-respected independent investigative journalist. Unless you want to subscribe to his substack, his views are…[Read more]

I want to finally recommend some news and news talk sources I like. The following video segment is from one of my favorite tech news video shows.

Here they discuss big tech company (e.g. Amazon) evolution in our economy. Leo Laporte highlights an article written by one of my favorite authors, Cory Doctorow.

This video skips some minutes, leaving…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
He could expat to Hungary. (Crossing my fingers.)

I know what you’re talking about, but on the other hand he is one of the few (maybe the only) stridently antiwar voices on the mainstream media.

I, too, am antiwar. I think being in NATO is a mistake. The Europeans don’t need us to counter Russia. Two of them are even nuclear…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
BUT, we haven’t heard the last of TC and we won’t have to wait long to see how this is resolved.

He could expat to Hungary. (Crossing my fingers.)

I predict that Tucker will get out of or get around his noncompete clause. Maybe he’ll give up the money they’d continue paying him, but he’s very rich as it is. Maybe he’ll get a court to decide the clause is unreasonable.

BUT, we haven’t heard the last of TC and we won’t have to wait long to see how this is resolved.

Fox News has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Tucker Carlson as he ramps up a competing series on Twitter that drew a combined 169 million views for its first two episodes, Axios has learned.

1 minute read, about Fox “exclusiveness” contract with Tucker
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/12/fox-letter-tucker-carlson-twitter

After watching the video, my main response is that repairable differences between ordinary folk aren’t the main problem. It’s the puppetmasters plus the fact that when it comes to some differences there is no middle ground: gun control, abortion, school prayer, etc.

For example, how much religion would you feel comfortable allowing in schools?…[Read more]

Correct on PTB. I will watch it now. Promise.

“PTB” = powers that be? Just guessing.

Did you watch the PBS video? It’s actually quite informative.