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A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Abraham Lincoln is often quoted for saying: "As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” But the passage I think of daily from the same 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois is this one. (don’t get hung up on his use of the word genius)

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 32 days ago • 917 comments

Women have done a better job than men so far at standing up to Trump.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

In case anyone says “it’s just measles”.

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

Read this. All of it.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 41 days ago • 382 comments

Clarification: This is the conversation reporters should be having but aren’t… instead of simply taking sound bites, reframing the BS spouted and putting it back to the “spouter” in this example, Mike Johnson. Spouter - a person who speaks foolishly & without sense… 😂

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submitted 51 days ago • 515 comments

Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

submitted 49 days ago • 2772 comments

This is absolutely abominable!

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Okay, let's keep going. Got another one today looking at just how absolutely fucking crazy it is that an inexperienced Musk-lackey is apparently pushing untested live code to America's checkbook. Tried to contextualize all of it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...

submitted 46 days ago • 94 comments

Read this again.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

This is Chad Pergram of Fox News. One of the great Hill reporters, no matter what you think of his network.

submitted 45 days ago • 111 comments

For those who want to follow the litigations.

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submitted 56 days ago • 302 comments

Wow. Just Wow.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Not nearly enough, though.

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submitted 58 days ago • 387 comments

Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?

submitted 58 days ago • 1656 comments

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO

submitted 78 days ago • 463 comments

Finished tweaking this meme. Please spread on other platforms. Thanks.

submitted 82 days ago • 10 comments