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AI fact checks can increase belief in false headlines, study finds

Filippo Menczer, right, is the senior author on the study. Credit: Indiana University Although many tech companies and start-ups have touted the potential of automated fact-checking services powered by artificial intelligence to stem the rising tide of online misinformation, a new study led by researchers at Indiana University has found that AI-fact checking can, in […]

Politics

Opinion: When Trump talks ‘bad genes’ and ‘racehorse theory,’ he is telling us who he is

Donald Trump’s fascination with genetics, especially his own “good genes” of the white European sort, as well as the “bad genes” of the you-know-which types, has always been creepy. I won’t compare him to Hitler; I leave that to historians and JD Vance. Here’s Vance in 2016, before Trump’s election: Writing to a former Yale […]