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Mar 20 2023
Analysis
The case for slowing down AI
“Computers need to be accountable to machines,” a top Microsoft executive told a roomful of reporters in Washington, DC, on February 10, three days after the company launched its new AI-powered Bing search engine.
Everyone laughed.
“Sorry! Computers need to be accountable to people!” he said, and then made sure to clarify, “That was not a Freudian slip.”
Slip or not, the
VoxSep 19 2022
Analysis
What Is This Eerie Salute People Are Doing at Trump Rallies Now?
On Saturday night, as former President Donald Trump was wrapping up a political rally in Youngstown, Ohio, one section of the crowd all raised their arms in the air and extended one finger.
The strange salute came as Trump was once again spreading lies and disinformation about the 2020 election and the FBI search on his Mar-a-Lago home. The signal was immediately compared to the “Sieg
ViceAug 25 2023
Perspectives Blog
Unpacking Media Bias on Climate Change
As weather-related events like wildfires, droughts, and hot summer temperatures have made headlines in recent years, debates and disagreements across the political spectrum abound about climate change.
In general, left-rated media conveys the belief that climate change is human-caused and an urgent threat, and that climate science proves this. Their coverage conveys that carbon
Julie MastrineApr 20 2022
Analysis
Former Intelligence Officials, Citing Russia, Say Big Tech Monopoly Power is Vital to National Security
A group of former intelligence and national security officials on Monday issued a jointly signed letter warning that pending legislative attempts to restrict or break up the power of Big Tech monopolies — Facebook, Google, and Amazon — would jeopardize national security because, they argue, their centralized censorship power is crucial to advancing U.S. foreign policy. The majority of this
Glenn GreenwaldNov 04 2022
Opinion
The week in whoppers: Biden’s ‘intimidation’ nonsense, the NYT’s biased scaremongering and more
Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
This claim:
“Crime is not on the rise. It’s actually going down.”
— Joy Behar, Tuesday
We say: With elections near, the left’s desperate to get voters to ignore crime they see with their own eyes. “The View’s” Joy Behar says she “looked it up” and found murders in major cities down 4%. Which proves nothing:
New York Post (Opinion)Oct 12 2022
News
Penn State is about to host the Proud Boys founder, and its students are protesting
Penn State University says Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes spouts "hateful and discriminatory" rhetoric — but the school also says a student group has the right to bring McInnes to speak on campus this month, at an event paid for with thousands of dollars in student fees.
Students have launched a petition and plan to protest the Oct. 24 event, seeking to block McInnes and another
NPR (Online News)Nov 01 2022
News
We Now Know More About DHS' Collusion With Big Tech to Police Speech
A government-only web portal to allow reporting of alleged disinformation to Facebook to be "throttled or suppressed," Homeland Security bureaucrats nudging tech companies to be more "responsive" to their requests to censor information, concern about online posts related to President Biden's withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, and a wish to "avoid the appearance of government
TownhallOct 05 2022
News
Election Firm CEO Arrested for Storing Data in China One Day after NYT Reporter Dismissed Allegations as ‘Conspiracy Theory’
A sympathetic profile of Eugene Yu and his election-logistics software firm, Konnech, was published by the New York Times on Monday. Stuart Thompson, a technology reporter specializing in “misinformation” and “disinformation,” declared that Konnech had been accused of giving the Chinese government “backdoor access” to the personal information of poll workers based on “threadbare evidence,” or
National Review (News)Nov 22 2022
Fact Check
CBS Finally Gets Around to the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
CBS News reported this week that it had conducted an independent review of Biden’s laptop which showed “no evidence” that the laptop hard drive “was faked or tampered with.”
That would have been useful reporting — two years ago.
When the New York Post first reported on some of the contents of the laptop in October 2020, much of the mainstream media and a group of more than 50
National Review Fact CheckAug 05 2022
News
Wray says FBI downplaying Hunter Biden information is 'deeply troubling,' as Republicans demand answers
FBI Director Christopher Wray said whistleblower allegations claiming FBI agents falsely labeled derogatory information on Hunter Biden as disinformation are "deeply troubling," but Republicans are calling on him to further acknowledge broader "politicization" within the bureau.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, Wray was asked by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., about
Fox News (Online News)