Tag: media manipulation

Google joins the race to provide robots for news stories

The tech giant’s AI chatbot Bard is already notorious for serving up false information as factual: Google is joining others in the race to replace humans – even left-wing liberal inky-fingers. The sinister hi-tech Silicone Valley Google is testing an AI-powered journalism product and pitching it to major news organizations, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing three sources close to the matter. The Times was allegedly one of the outlets approached by Google.

STALIN’S SECRET WAR PLANS

When the German armed forces invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941, Berlin described the offensive as pre-emptive in the face of imminent Soviet aggression. The claim was generally dismissed as Nazi propaganda. Recently disclosed evidence from Soviet sources, however, suggests that Moscow’s foreign policy was not governed by neutrality when Europe went to war in 1939.

Snowden criticizes US’s attempt to pressure journalists to accuse Assange

Edward Snowden called the Biden regime’s attempt to strengthen charges against Julian Assange a ‘historic scandal’, Newsweek reports. Snowden expressed his outrage at the fact that the founder of WikiLeaks was being persecuted for political reasons and the silence of the mainstream media about how the FBI put pressure on journalists, trying to get them to testify against Assange.

Syria withdraws BBC certification due to fake news propaganda

Damascus has accused the British news channel of ‘providing politicized and misleading reports’ about the situation in the country. As a consequence, BBC journalists will no longer be able to legally work in Syria after the country’s authorities revoked their accreditation. Officials in Damascus claim that the British news channel produced news reports on multiple occasions which provided a distorted picture of reality in the Arab country.

Political Correctness changes features of Bronze Age woman who lived in Scotland 3,800 years ago

Researchers created a 3D image of a Bronze Age woman who was likely part of Europe’s Bell Beaker culture. In 1987, Scottish workers accidentally unearthed the burial of a Bronze Age woman during a road construction project. The stone, coffin-like tomb, called a cist, contained the woman’s skeletal remains alongside grave goods, including a short-necked pottery beaker, a cow bone fragment and small pieces of flint.

Mainstream media to replace journalists with artificial intelligence

Despite massive cock-ups like publishing fake news about Formula 1 racing driver Michael Schumacher, the media conglomerate Alex Springer-Verlag, which publishes the largest German newspaper Bild, is to lay off about 200 journalists in order to cut costs. According to the company’s internal mailing list, instead of people, some news work tasks are planned to be delegated to artificial intelligence or automatic processes.

Zuckerberg admits that Facebook removed millions of posts during the Covid-19 pandemic

Facebook was asked by the ‘scientific establishment’ to remove posts related to Covid-19 which later proved to be ’debatable or true,’ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a podcast interview this week. Speaking to the Russian-American interviewer Lex Fridman in a podcast released on Thursday, Zuckerberg said that policing Facebook’s attempts to remove mistruths is really tricky.