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Over the next few months, Michael Moritz will try to sell us on his mayor-as-dictator ballot measure by manufacturing a fake crisis over SF having too many commissions.
Moritz, a donor to Republicans, published a piece on his news site about a boring commission meeting, which concludes we have "Too much democracy."
In reality, we're a strong-mayor city, which our mayor abuses to block evidence-based drug policy, Slow Streets, and more. The mayor needs less power not…

„To Elon Musk, the Brazilian Supreme Court justice is a “dictator.”
In the justice’s view, Musk is allowing his social media platform to support the “digital militias” that are using disinformation to threaten democracy.
Together, they’re making this South American nation the battleground for the global debate on free speech and fake news, a dispute that could affect how people everywhere communicate information, ideas and opinions online.“

The ‘fake news’-ification of local news—and what to do about it
from Doron Taussig @…
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/the-fa…

The ‘fake news’-ification of local news—and what to do about it
The Letter from the Editor that ran on March 23, 2021, did not shrink from acknowledging the challenges the Bucks County Courier Times faces reaching conservative readers in its politically diverse community. But Shane Fitzgerald, then the paper’s executive editor, still managed to take a hopeful tone. “We’ve been called biased, fake news, a liberal […]

Senate hearing: US DNI Avril Haines says foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming elections, harnessing AI to spread disinformation (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/election-inte…

Now armed with AI, America's adversaries will try to influence election, security officials warn
Top U.S. security officials say America’s foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming U.S. elections. Countries like Russia, China and Iran are likely to use the latest artificial intelligence programs to create and spread disinformation aimed at polarizing voters and undermining faith in democracy. During a Senate hearing Wednesday, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers that the U.S. has greatly improved its ability to detect fake content. Forei…

Detecting AI fakes is a losing battle.
Instead, we should assume everything is fake unless proven valid, using tools optimized for proving provenance. Anything else is at minimum suspect.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deepfake-detection-…

Deepfake Detection, A Lost Cause
Lately, there’s been a ton of buzz about deepfakes in the news. Honestly, I’m not sure if they are going to destroy democracy and all that, but I am convinced of one thing: trying to detect them is a lost cause.

Today is the second anniversary of Eric Boehlert's tragic and untimely death.
Soledad O’Brien celebrated Eric as "“an awesome human being" with a "Crazy devotion to facts, context and good reporting. Enemy of BS, fake news.”
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Fox News is lying about Trump's trial
https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/fox-news-is-lying-about-trumps-trial
Sabrina Haake, The Haake Take.
"The big story is that, in a trial exposing how Trump used fake news to get elected…

Fox News is lying about Trump's trial
David Pecker said he worried that what he, Trump and Cohen were doing violated federal law.