#misinformation

#misinformation

Decades of communications research has found that, all else equal, people do tend to think that the news media is rooting against people like them. It's a phenomenon known as the hostile media effect, and we know that the more politically committed someone is to a party or ideology, the more likely they are to see the news media as biased against them.

The colonies understood the British threat. Revere's warning provided urgency and timing, not persuasion. Americans acted collectively because they largely agreed on the underlying reality.

Experts say a series of AI-generated online news outlets posing as local mastheads in regional Western Australia could be the first recorded example of "pink-slime" journalism in Australia. "Pink slime" is the colloquial term for AI-generated news sites masquerading as legitimate local journalism to attract clicks and advertising revenue and, in some cases, to influence politics. This form of low-quality, AI-generated news, widespread in the United States, is named after a by-product of cheap, highly processed meat products.

We are in a moment of crisis and potential. The promise of democracy, never fully realized, appears to be slipping away as rights are eroded and as people are disconnected from the civic sphere while living in a constant stream of misinformation. At the same time, organizations and people are gathering to determine how we can defend the democracy we know, and fight for one that's better. Masses of people mobilize for protests and small groups of neighbors fiercely protect one another, quickly developing new practices to keep each other safe in the face of government violence and repression.

“I think it's a very dangerous trend. One, because it is absolutely 150% fiction. But what's worrying me now is, is that his social media is now taking on a violent turn. And that worries me because when you do that and when your messages are so hateful, or when you demonize people, then you do provoke people who are unstable and you can jeopardize people's safety, Bass said.”

Speaker Julie Menin stated, 'When the federal government is deregulating, it is up to cities to take the lead.' She emphasized the council's responsibility to share factual information against misinformation.

"Content shared during emergencies is assessed not only for its accuracy, but also for its potential impact on stability, security, and public perception. What might appear as commentary or documentation can, in such contexts, be interpreted as harmful or unlawful communication."

Garber offers an eye-opening account of how today's internet-inflected culture conditions us to see one another not as people but as characters in an ongoing show.