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The Study Republicans Demanded About Trans Kids Just Backfired. Guess What the Media Isn't Covering?
Utah commissioned actual experts to review the science on gender-affirming care. The results? Inconvenient truths that don't fit the narrative.
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Watch CBS News' Scott Pelley Warn Graduates About the Threats Facing American Democracy
The 60 Minutes correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to…
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Updates on the Chicago Sun-Times' AI-Generated Summer Reading List Disaster
How it happened and where the paper goes next.
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The Chicago Sun-Times Published an AI-Generated Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books — And This is Just the Beginning
The Sun-Times' publishing of fake books shows what happens when media outlets hollow out their newsrooms and replace humans with tech.
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The Right's Outrage Machine Takes No Beach Days
Republicans want us to believe James Comey is plotting assassination via Instagram shells.
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The Grok 'White Genocide' Incident Shows How AI Can Become a Propaganda Machine
When Musk's chatbot started injecting "white genocide" conspiracy theories into unrelated conversations, it revealed the dangerous power of AI to…
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CBP Detains Hasan Piker: When Border Control Becomes Thought Police
The progressive streamer's two-hour interrogation about his political views is a chilling signal of what happens when criticizing the government becomes…
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Qatar's $400 Million "Gift" to Trump Is Corruption on an Unprecedented Scale
As the White House prepares to accept a luxury jet from a foreign government, Trump's Attorney General — a former Qatar lobbyist — assures us it's all…
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The Ventriloquist Court: AI "Victim Statements" and the Death of Reality
An Arizona case shows how digital resurrections of the dead could undermine the foundations of our justice system.
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