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Chris Cuomo Fell for an AI Video Labeled "100% Fake" and It Gets Worse From There
NewsNation's Chris Cuomo wants you to know he's a serious journalist. He's a former CNN anchor, which makes it extra special that he just fell for a laughably bad AI-generated video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling Sydney Sweeney's jeans ad "Nazi propaganda."The fake AOC in the video, which Cuomo
Oh No, What is Jim Acosta Doing?
Jim Acosta wants you to know he just did something special. "A show you don't want to miss," he promised his Substack subscribers. "A one of a kind interview."What followed was Acosta, the former CNN White House correspondent who spent years asking tough questions of the powerful, sitting down to lo
There's Now a Report Card for Media Capitulation, and It's Full of Chickens
Over at Margaret Sullivan's always-excellent newsletter, she's got an exclusive on something called the Media Capitulation Index. Free Press, the media advocacy group (not to be confused with Bari Weiss' thing), basically created a report card for how badly major media companies are caving to Trump
How Trump Plans to Weaponize AI's "Superhuman Persuasion"
The Trump administration just released a 25-page plan for American AI dominance, and buried in the bureaucratic language is something that should worry anyone who cares about truth. They claim they want to eliminate "ideological bias" from AI systems. They say they want artificial intelligence to be
The Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad "Backlash" Is Mostly Fake
So apparently we're all fighting about Sydney Sweeney's jeans now. Or her genes? Both, actually — that's the whole thing.This week, American Eagle dropped a new denim campaign featuring the actress sprawled across various surfaces while delivering this gem of ad copy: "Genes are passed down from par
Trump Has Left Reality Behind. He Took the Justice Department With Him.
So Trump is back at it again, and this time he's calling for people to be thrown in prison over payments that never happened. I wish I was making this up.Over the weekend, Trump took to Truth Social with quite the accusation. He claimed Democrats paid Beyoncé $11 million for her Kamala Harris endors