17 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

When It Comes to Spotting Fake Receipts, It’s A.I. vs. A.I. - New York Times

ChatGPT Fails to Flag Retracted and Problematic Articles – The Scientist 

The rise of A.I. nostalgia bait – New York Times 

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History – 404 Media  

Fake celebrity chatbots sent risqué messages to teens on top AI app – Washington Post  

Almost Every State Has Its Own Deepfakes Law Now - 404 Media 

Cybercriminals Use AI to Create Fake Websites That Look Just Like the Real Thing – Wall Street Journal  

The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality - ArsTechnica 

'AI slop' videos may be annoying, but they're racking up views — and ad money – NPR

Foreign disinformation enters AI-powered era - Axios 

Wired and Business Insider remove ‘AI-written’ freelance articles – Press Gazette

Does ChatGPT Ignore Article Retractions and Other Reliability Concerns? – Wiley

Image fraud in nuclear medicine research – Springer

AI exposes 1,000+ fake science journals – Science Daily

Can fake faces make AI training more ethical? – Science News

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources – ArsTechnica

What happens when fake AI celebrities chat with teens - Washington Post

20 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

What's behind the TikTok accounts using AI-generated versions of real Latino journalists? – NBC News 

Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal business of AI video - The Washington Post

Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said – The Atlantic 

Inside a Network of Fake College Websites Dozens of fake college websites built with or supplemented by generative AI – Inside Higher Ed 

Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt – The Guardian  

Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online – New York Times 

Artificial intelligence as author: Can scientific reviewers recognize GPT-4o-generated manuscripts? – Science Direct 

How to spot an AI video? LOL, you can’t. - The Washington Post  

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles – 404Media  

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds - New York Times

 Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia - The Washington Post

AI slop videos are ruining our scrolling - Axios

How journalists can spot and mitigate AI bias - Reuters

AI slop might finally cure our internet addiction - The Atlantic 

Dave Barry Is told by AI that he’s dead – Dave Berry  

LeBron James Not Happy With AI Videos Showing Him Pregnant - Futurism

Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case – ABC News

Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes? – Wired

AI news videos blur line between real and fake reports – NBC News

Battling deepfakes: How AI threatens democracy and what we can do about it – The Conversation

32 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

Israel and Iran use propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence  - New York Times  

Florida woman conned out of $15K after AI clones daughter’s voice – WFLA

How a Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to streaming success – CBC

A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials – Washington Post

Panel with AI experts to review appeal of NTU student penalised for academic misconduct - The Straits Times  

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations – Retraction Watch

How "consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation – Wired

How to Detect AI Writing: Tips and Tricks to Tell if Something Is Written With AI – CNET

How AI-generated content & misinformation are corrupting online academic resources, creating a "zombie" internet where errors and fake science perpetuate – The Dispatch  

Digital Literacy in the Age of AI: How to Fight Misinformation – Ed Tech Magazine  

AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse - Wired

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper – New York Times

OpenAI takes down covert operations using social media tied to China and other countries – NPR 

Wired Envisions a Deepfake Future you’re not prepared for – Wired

AI is perfecting scam emails, making phishing hard to catch - Axios

Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger’s dream – The Verge

AI models hallucinate less than humans — just in “more surprising ways”  - Tech Crunch

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist – 404 Media

Trump signs bill criminalizing revenge porn and explicit deepfakes - TechCrunch

Fake AI images are already manipulating you, and this crazy controversy is proof - BGR

Musk's xAI blames Grok's "white genocide" responses on unauthorized update - Axios

Music streaming service Deezer adds AI song tags in fight against fraud – Associated Press

Scammers use AI to spoof senior U.S. officials' voices, FBI warns - Axios

A.I. Videos Have Never Been Better. Can You Tell What’s Real? – New York Times

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features -
The Guardian

AI has probably already faked one of your memories. Here's what that means – BBC

How to Spot Fake Reviews on Amazon – Wired

Journalist says 4,000 fake AI news websites created to game Google algorithms – Press Gazette

What Are Deepfakes? Everything to Know About These AI Image and Video Forgeries - CNET

AI and disinformation fuel political tensions in the Philippines – Al Jazeera 

AI is polluting truth in journalism. Here’s how to disrupt the misinformation feedback loop. – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

A racist campaign message caused ire among Oklahoma Democrats. But it wasn't real, it was AI – The Oklahoman

Impersonating People with Down Syndrome

AI-generated accounts impersonating people with Down syndrome are spreading across social media. Many of these artificial intelligence-backed profiles are gaining followers faster than real disability advocates — and they're making money from it. For people with Down syndrome, these fake accounts can feel like a new level of discrimination — one where their lived experiences are copied, exaggerated and monetized. -CBS News

18 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

Why people are using AI to fake disabilities like Down syndrome online – CBS News

The AI Slop Presidency – 404 media

An AI-created video of a murdered man is used to deliver a victim's statement at a killer's sentencing - BBC

In Battle Against AI-Powered Fraudsters, Colleges Turn to New Weapon – AI – Voice of San Diego

Deepfakes on trial: How judges are navigating AI evidence authentication -Reuters

The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here – 404 media

Reasoning models don't always say what they think - Anthropic

Is this AI or a journalist? Research reveals stylistic differences in news articles – Techxplore  

Nine Ways to Protect Yourself From ‘Impostor’ Voice Scams – Wall Street Journal

A deepfakes bill is flying through Congress. Critics say it’s flawed. – Washington Post

YouTube Turns Off Ad Revenue For Fake Movie Trailer Channels After Deadline Investigation – Deadline

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality – 404 media

Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way. – Washington Post

Researchers raise red flag about AI-generated fake images in biomedical research – Medicalxpress

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops – 404 media

Major deepfake porn site shuts down – NPR

7 Best Deepfake Detector Tools & Techniques (May 2025) – Unite AI               

Former school athletic director gets 4 months in jail in racist AI deepfake case – Associated Press

Road rage victim 'speaks' via AI at his killer's sentencing

Chris Pelkey died in a road rage shooting in Arizona three years ago. But with the help of artificial intelligence, he returned earlier this month at his killer's sentencing to deliver a victim's statement himself in what could be the first-of-its-kind use of the technology. -Read more at the BBC

23 Recent Articles about AI Fakes & Deepfakes

What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025 – Columbia Journalism Review

Sony Music says over 75,000 songs in battle against AI deepfakes – Gizmodo 

‘Hi mom, it’s me’: voice cloning services demand stronger voice deepfake detection – BioMetricUpdate

Dark Side of GenAI: Ethical Dilemmas Threatening Our Future – Analytics Insight  

AI Search Has A Citation Problem – Columbia Journalism Review 

Celine Dion warns fans to beware of fake, AI-generated songs appearing online – CNN

YouTubers are being scammed with AI-generated deepfake videos – PC World

AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it – NBC News

Deepfakes, cash and crypto: how call centre scammers duped 6,000 people – The Guardian

I was so freaked out by talking to this AI that I had to leave – PC World

Chinese AI Video Generators Unleash a Flood of New Nonconsensual Porn – 404 Media

AI detectors are poor western blot classifiers: a study of accuracy and predictive values – PeerJ

Fake Video of Trump and Musk Appears on TVs at Housing Agency – New York Times

A ‘True Crime’ Documentary Series Has Millions of Views. The Murders Are All AI-Generated – 404 Media

Scarlett Johansson warns of 'AI misuse' after fake Kanye video – BBC

AI Slop of Musk and Trump on TikTok Racks Up 700 Million Views – 404 Media

Schools face a new threat: "nudify" sites that use AI to create realistic, revealing images of classmates – CBS News

AI enters Congress: Sexually explicit deepfakes target women lawmakers – 19th News

AI nude photo investigation uncovers twice as many likely victims at Lancaster Country Day – WGAL  

Deepfakes didn’t disrupt the election, but they’re changing our relationship with reality – The Hill

Scarlett Johansson Slams AI Video of Celebrities Fighting Kanye West’s Antisemitism: ‘We Must Call Out the Misuse of AI, No Matter Its Messaging’ – Variety

How to Tell If Your Job Candidate Is an AI Deepfake – INC

Judge fines lawyers in Walmart lawsuit over fake, AI-generated cases – Reuters

15 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

AI-generated images threaten science — here’s how researchers hope to spot them – Nature

AI hallucinations gone wrong as Alaska uses fake stats in policy – AI News 

AI-generated child sexual abuse images are spreading. Law enforcement is racing to stop them – Associated Press

AI is spawning a flood of fake Trump & Harris voices. Here's how to tell what's real – Washington Post

An ‘Interview’ With a Dead Luminary Exposes the Pitfalls of A.I. – New York Times

A group of experienced editorial board members struggled to distinguish human versus AI authorship - AHAIASA Journals

AI scams have infiltrated the knitting and crochet world - why it matters for everyone - ZDnet

'Garbage in, garbage out': AI fails to debunk disinformation, study finds – Voice of America

His murdered daughter’s name and image was used to create an AI chatbot - Washington Post

AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences – Bloomberg

America's gullibility crisis – Axios 

Russia using generative AI to ramp up disinformation, says Ukraine minister – Reuters

An American in Moscow is creating deepfakes & works with Russian intelligence -  Washington Post

AI deepfakes a top concern for election officials with voting underway – ABC News

What to know about the rise of AI deepfakes – CBS News (video) 

15 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

Fake and AI generated images spread online after Hurricanes Helene, Milton – NBC News  

Created an A.I. Voice Clone to Prank Telemarketers. But the Joke’s on Us. – New York Times

The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes – 404 Media

The rise of fake influencers - Axis

A proposal to enhance AI text detectors - Arxiv

Why Watermarking Text Fails to Stop Misinformation and Plagiarism – Data Innovation

How A.I., QAnon and Falsehoods Are Reshaping the Presidential Race - New York Times 

Rice research could make weird AI images a thing of the past – Rice  

How to Tell If What You're Reading Was Written By AI - Lifehacker

Chatbots can chip away at belief in conspiracy theories - Axios

AI tool claims 94% accuracy in telling apart fake from real research papers – Decca Herald

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation – Harvard’s Kennedy School: Misinformation  

Teachers still can't trust AI text checkers – Axios

Is Detecting genAI in Scholarly Research Beside the Point? – Adam Day on Medium 

LinkedIn says if you share fake or false AI-generated content, that's on you – Tech Radar

24 Recent Articles about AI Deepfakes

What to know about the rise of AI deepfakes – CBS News

High School Is Becoming a Cesspool of Sexually Explicit Deepfakes – The Atlantic

Sophistication of AI-backed operation targeting senator points to future of deepfake schemes – Associated Press

Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here - ArsTechnica

Taylor Swift and the Power of the AI Backlash – New York Magazine

How AI Is Helping ‘Fake Candidates’ Land Jobs – Wall Street Journal

A.I. Can Now Create Lifelike Videos. Can You Tell What’s Real? - The New York Times

FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist - ArsTechnica

Educational resource page with information and tips about deepfakes - Microsoft

5 Best Deepfake Detector Tools & Techniques – Unite  

U.S. Army soldier charged with using AI to create child sexual abuse images – Washington Post

New McAfee tool can detect AI-generated audio - Axios 

See why AI detection tools can fail to catch election deepfakes – Washington Post

Google's Nonconsensual Explicit Image Problem is Getting Worse – Wired

Something fascinating is wrong with the eyes in deepfakes – Futurism

Bill to Outlaw AI Deepfakes Backed by SAG-AFTRA – Variety  

As AI entrenches itself in the political world, discerning real from fake is critical – NBC Boston

The FCC wants the AI voice calling you to say it's a deepfake – Tech Radar

California lawmakers approve legislation to ban deepfakes, protect workers and regulate AI  - ABC News

YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training – Tech Crunch

Scammers now using deepfakes to commit title fraud – NBC 6 South Florida

Many political AI deepfakes are totally cartoonish, but the technology is still shaping the election – Fortune

AI-generated deepfakes are a growing threat to consumer identity – CBS 8

What the US can learn from the role of AI in other elections – MIT Tech Review

17 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

Microsoft Bing Copilot blames reporter for crimes he covered - The Register

AI researchers call for ‘personhood credentials’ as bots get smarter – Washington Post   

AI was responsible for the fake quotes in the Megalopolis trailer – The Verge 

Trump Promotes A.I. Images to Falsely Suggest Taylor Swift Endorsed Him – New York Times

How do AI checkers actually work? - ZDnet

Watermarking in Images Will Not Solve AI-Generated Content Abuse – Data Innovation

Trump's crowd-photo claims speed AI-driven truth decay – Axios

This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it? – The Verge

Secretaries of state urge Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading false election info – Washington Post   

AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond? – Nature

Research findings strongly argue against the use of free AI detectors to detect fake scientific images - Arxiv 

How universities spot AI cheats – and the one word that gives it away – Telegraph  

US agents shut down huge Russian AI bot farm as fears over misinformation grow – Semafor 

Hunting for AI bots? These four words could do the trick – NBC News

How to Teach Kids to Spot AI Manipulation – Ed Week

OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT  - Tech Crunch 

Tom Hanks alerts fans about AI ads using his voice to sell ‘wonder drugs’: ‘Do not be fooled’ – LA Times 

How AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election – NPR

How do AI Checkers Work?

AI checkers will break down text, removing punctuation then use a technique called vectorization to convert it into a mathematical hash code for comparison to other text. Phrases and grammatical structure are assigned weights with uncommon language rated as more likely human-written. The AI detector also looks across the internet for use of the same language. The comparison identifies exact matches and paraphrases. This means data-rich companies like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are more likely to successfully identify AI-written material. Read more about this process on ZDnet

14 Recent Articles about AI Deepfakes

Why the Pentagon is looking to speedily buy deepfake-detection technology – Defense Scoop

Forget deepfake videos. Text and voice are this election’s true AI threat. – The Hill

Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All – Wired

Fake AI-generated video of Justin Timberlake drinking beer shocks fans: ‘Where do we go from here?’ – NY Post

Political deepfakes top list of malicious AI use, DeepMind finds – Financial Times 

A.I. Is Getting Better Fast. Can You Tell What’s Real Now? – New York Times

The Near Future of Deepfakes Just Got Way Clearer – The Atlantic 

Deepfakes and the First Amendment: Are Deepfakes Illegal? – Freedom Forum

AI Fake Nudes Are Wreaking Havoc at Schools Across the Country – Wall Street Journal

A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm - CNN   

‘I Felt Shameful and Fearful’: Teen Who Saw AI Fake Nudes of Herself Speaks Out - Wall Street Journal

How to spot generative AI ‘hallucinations’ and prevent them – ReadWrite

Few AI deepfakes identified in EU elections, Microsoft president says – Reuters

The danger of deepfakes is not what you think – Financial Times

13 articles about AI Fakes

Battling AI's error problem: Experts craft BS detector - Axios

Top 10 Generative AI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims A Third of the Time – News Guard

Facebook Is Already Mistakenly Tagging Real Photos as "Made With AI" – Futurism

Battling AI's error problem: Experts craft BS detector – Axios

Can AI police itself? Experts say chatbots can detect each other’s gaffes. – Washington Post

Fake science in fraudulent papers is on the rise - The Week  

Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures – Wall Street Journal

Leading chatbots are spreading Russian propaganda – Axios

Google’s and Microsoft’s AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election - WIRED

A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm - CNN 

AI Is Helping Scammers Outsmart You—and Your Bank – Wall Street Journal 

Propagandists are using AI too—and companies need to be open about it – MIT Tech Review  

Researchers made an algorithm that can tell when AI is hallucinating – BGR

18 articles about AI Fakes

These ISIS news anchors are AI fakes. Their propaganda is real. – Washington Post

Generative AI poses Threat to election security, intelligence agencies warn – CBS News

Bank of Italy warns against AI-powered fake videos – Reuters

Google's AI Watermarks Will Identify Deepfakes – Dark Reading

In novel case, U.S. charges man with making child sex abuse images with AI – Washington Post

Voice-cloning technology bringing a key Supreme Court moment to 'life' – Associated Press

Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures – Wall Street Journal

New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes - Ars Technica 

She was accused of faking an incriminating video but nothing was fake after all  - The Guardian

TikTok’s AI watermarks could help curb deepfakes, but it’s no panacea – Semafor

OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers – New York Times 

Microsoft and OpenAI launch $2M fund to counter election deepfakes – Tech Crunch  

OpenAI Says It Can Now Detect Images Spawned by Its Software—Most of the Time – Wall Street Journal

How AI-generated disinformation might impact this year’s elections and how journalists should report on it – Reuters Institute  

How Generative AI Is Helping Fact-Checkers Flag Election Disinformation, But Is Less Useful in the Global South – Global Investigative Journalism Network  

In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024 – Washington Post

Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies - EL PAÍS English

Fooled by AI? These firms sell deepfake detection - Washington Post

14 Articles about How AI Tools are being Used to Create Fakes

Contest invites Penn Staters to write believable fake news with generative AI – Penn State

AI-fueled scams target tax refunds - Axios

AI Spam Threatens the Internet—AI Can Also Protect It – IEEE Spectrum

Fake news YouTube creators target Black celebrities with AI-generated misinformation – NBC

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’- CNN

Underage picture of Jenna Ortega used in ‘no clothes’ deepfake app ad on Instagram, Facebook – NBC

A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning - CNN

AI deepfakes of Taylor Swift spread on X. Here’s what to know. – Washington Post

A Photographer Who Found Instagram Fame for His Striking Portraits Has Confessed His Images Were Actually A.I.-Generated - ArtNet

Google, Bing put deepfake porn at the top of some search results – NBC News

A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. – Politico

Police investigate explicit fake images of high school students generated by AI – NBC Chicago

The Future of AI Video after Sora is impressive—and Flawed – Washington Post

Algorithms are pushing AI-generated falsehoods at an alarming rate. How do we stop this? – The Conversation

The Deepfake Dangers Ahead

Because of advances in computing power, smarter machine learning algorithms and larger data sets, we will soon share digital space with a sinister array of AI-generated news articles and podcasts, deepfake images and videos—all produced at a once unthinkable scale and speed. As of 2018, according to one study, fewer than 10,000 deepfakes had been detected online. Today the number of deepfakes online is almost certainly in the millions. Deepfakes pose not only criminal risks but also threats to national security.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal

Articles of interest about journalism, writing, privacy & more - May 27

***COVID-19 

New York will raffle off scholarships to kids who get vaccinated

Learning How To Smell Again After COVID-19

***JOURNALISM

The effects of media narratives about failures and discoveries in science on beliefs about and support for science 

These Ex-Journalists Are Using AI to Catch Online Defamation

The news doesn’t set with the sun. What it’s like to be a night-shift journalist.

Google AMP is dead! AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search  

California City Ends Lawsuit Against Bloggers For Publishing Police Records

Russia’s attack on U.S. media has become a test case (opinion) ($) 

The AP and the latest style

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Subpoena for sources, records related to Washington Post journalist’s college reporting is improper and invalid, RCFP argues

Local TV news employment confounds expectations in 2020  

Newspaper Layoffs Grew In 2020 

AP sent a memo about its controversial decision to fire a young staff reporter over her college activism regarding Israel-Palestine 

New Owner Set for Chicago Tribune, Daily News and Baltimore Sun 

***PRODUCING MEDIA 

How Did the Pandemic Impact the Video Production Industry?

Vice Media Group now produces more Stories than text or video

In Google’s new world, your phone camera is for way more than taking photos 

Spotify will auto-transcribe podcasts over the coming weeks

Why QR codes are here to stay after the COVID-19 pandemic

***WRITING & READING

Does your writing transgress this editor’s pet peeves?  

Checking In With Black Bookstores Nearly A Year After 2020's Book Boom On Racism

The 9 Types of Adjectives 

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel 

***PLAGIARISM 

You Say Plagiarism. I Say Provocation

Plagiarism and how to not do it

***FAKES, FRAUDS & SCAMS

Trump Continues To Push Election Falsehoods. Here's Why That Matters

Covid Vaccines: Could they be magnetic?

Science Had a Misinformation Problem Before COVID. Scientists Want to Fix It

Unvaccinated TikTok Users Believe They Will Be ‘Lone Survivors’

Google now fights fake news in search results. Here's how it works

QAnon believers go undercover to spread conspiracies online…and it’s working

***SOCIAL MEDIA  

New Florida law bars social media from blocking politicians: Unconstitutional, conflicts with federal law, experts say ($)   

TikTok Radio is coming to SiriusXM as companies join forces to create ‘exclusive audio experiences’ 

Twitter axes AI cropping after tests prove racial bias

The Case For Deleting Everything

***DATA PRIVACY

“Apps Are Not Listening To You”: Privacy Tech Worker Explains How Ads Know Things They Seemingly Shouldn’t

Google Must Face Privacy Claims Over Data Transfers To App Developers 

Data privacy bill: All tech giants would have to follow Apple lead

Experian exposes credit scores through unprotected API

Apple’s iOS 14.5 update comes with App Tracking Transparency for better privacy

***LANGUAGE

DARPA helped make a sarcasm detector, because of course it did   

Scientists find 'missing link' behind first human languages

Meet the mystery woman who mastered IBM’s 5,400-character Chinese typewriter  

Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century 

How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively? (video)

***POETRY

Poetry Challenge: How Has The Pandemic Changed You?

“Dead Souls” is an exceedingly cerebral comedy about the viability of contemporary poetry   

Articles of interest about journalism, writing, conspiracy theories & more - May 3

***COVID-19

Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now ($)

Vaccines could be approved for children by summer 

The Covid-19 Pandemic Ends With Exponential Decay ($)

How Pfizer manufactures its COVID-19 vaccine (data visualization) 

U.S. May Have Hit The Mark With Vaccinations To Beat Back COVID-19 

Vaccinated and ready to hit the gym? Here’s how to assess the risks. Vaccinated and ready to hit the gym? Here’s how to assess the risks. ($)

CDC says it is safe for vaccinated people to unmask outdoors

What ‘Taking the Pandemic Seriously’ Means Now (opinion)

***JOURNALISM

‘Understanding Title IX’ is a new Poynter course to help student journalists navigate this complex federal law

‘1619 Project’ writer to join UNC journalism school faculty  

Reporter resigns over story that claimed migrant kids were being given VP's books ($) 

Why the New York Times's Opinion Redesign Drops 'Op-Ed'  ($)

How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and accuracy aren’t the only things that matter 

News deserts and weak ethics laws allow corruption to run rampant in SC

Science journalism grows up (opinion) 

Why do people still get print newspapers? Well, partly to start up the grill (seriously)

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Do newsrooms have to be in … newsrooms?

A Gannett union study shows major gender and racial pay gaps in 14 of its newsrooms 

Major media is taking millions from Facebook — and keeping the details secret

How local TV stations plan to remain relevant as viewers shift to streaming 

Wave of New Newspapers Sue Google and Facebook

***SUBSTACK

What Substack is really doing to the media 

Substack cofounders discuss $1 million local news plan

***FREE SPEECH 

Cheerleader's case could shape workplace social media policies

Wave Of 'Anti-Protest' Bills Could Threaten First Amendment  

***PRODUCING MEDIA

A Complete Guide: How To Save on Professional Video Production Costs

Apple will let podcasters sell subscriptions and keep a cut for itself

Podcast paywalls are here 

***WRITING & READING

This Is How Reading Rewires Your Brain, According to Neuroscience

Where should you buy books? ($)

Is It OK When Passive Voice Is Used? 

When the Plagiarist Sends the DMCA Notice 

A Joy Of Reading, Sparked By a Special Librarian 

11 books to pull you out of a reading rut

Be careful about what you give away in your excitement about signing a contract for a book ($) 

***COVID CONSPIRACIES

Study: COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs increased among users of conservative and social media

How conspiracy theories about COVID-19 prey on Latinos (opinion) ($)

***SCIENCE CONSPIRACIES

What’s the secret science of conspiracy theories?

Misinformation in and about science 

***FAKES, FRAUDS & SCAMS

The slow, painful death of Trump allies’ voting-machine conspiracy theories

Scam sends threatening texts about drug cartels 

How QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Are Winning Local Elections

Study lacks evidence on masks, isn’t linked to Stanford

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Parler's New iPhone App Will Block Posts That Apple Prohibits

Facebook announces Clubhouse clone, podcast features, Spotify integration, and more

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Experian exposes credit scores through unprotected API

Internet industry braces for new privacy rules

Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are 

D.C. Police Department Victim Of Apparent Ransomware Attack

***LITERATURE

The science behind how literature improves our lives

Shakespeare’s musings on religion are like curious whispers – they require deep listening to be heard

‘A Jane Austen Museum Wants to Discuss Slavery. Will Her Fans Listen?’

***POETRY

How Poetry Has Helped To Guide People During The Pandemic 

For National Poetry Month, five poets reflect on the seasons ($)

Articles of interest about journalism, writing, conspiracy theories & more - April 5

***COVID-19

CDC: Fully vaccinated people can travel in U.S. without tests or quarantines 

Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus? We Don’t Know, Scientists Say.

CDC Data Suggests Vaccinated Don’t Carry, Can’t Spread Virus

***JOURNALISM

Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity

The journalism crisis across the world

Asian America women like me have been objectified & dehumanized. This was my TV news experience (opinion) 

Paul Brock, a founder of Black journalism group, dies at 89

Vaccine Hesitancy: What Journalists Need to Know

News deserts and weak ethics laws allow corruption to run rampant in SC

Kansas City newspaper sends a warning with a blank front page ($)

More than 25 places to find journalism jobs and internships

Bystander intervention training to stop anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Billionaires push to derail hedge fund takeover of local newspapers

U.S. Supreme Court permits FCC to loosen media ownership rules

West Coast billionaires buy dying legacy media companies

How Stat survived, and thrived, during the craziest year in health reporting history 

***WRITING & READING

HarperCollins to Acquire HMH Trade 

Graphic novel from the “Captain Underpants” series pulled from library and bookstore shelves

‘Hemingway’ documentary Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration ($)

***COVID-19 MISINFORMATION 

Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’

As the flood of false & misleading health information continues unabated on social media, publishers find themselves in for a battle

The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands

COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook

The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now

'You can't trust the government': Spanish-speaking social media spreads COVID-19 vaccine disinformation, adds to hesitancy

***FAKES

How Sounds Are Faked For Nature Documentaries

***SOCIAL MEDIA  

How to check if your account was part of Facebook’s 533M record leak

Google integrates Chat to Gmail for all accounts

How beauty filters took over social media | MIT Technology Review 

Facebook Disputes Claims It Fuels Political Polarization And Extremism

Group-Chatting Platform Discord Might Change Social Media With Its Business Model 

QAnon Facebook Group Linked to Capitol Riot Still Active

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Personal data from over 500M Facebook users leaked online - 9to5Mac

IRS Warns of Scam Targeting .Edu Email Addresses

Fake apps are circumventing Apple’s rules in order to rob users

New study reveals iPhones aren't as private as you think 

Spy pixels in emails have become endemic 

Companies use this email trick to spy on you all the time – and you had no idea 

***LANGUAGE

Words Like 'Racism' Have Lost Their Common Meaning (opinion)

***POETRY

San Diego's Poet Laureate Launches Digital Poetry Platform

Amanda Gorman’s Poetry United Critics. It’s Dividing Translators

Poetry Challenge: Create A List Poem That Grapples With Rise Of Anti-Asian Racism