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When Influence Replaces Expertise
Inside the weighted-vest trend and the illusion of authenticity driving it.
Allison McSorley
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The Synthetic Newsroom
Part 2 of The Manufactured Reality: How AI Is Rewriting What You See
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The Outrage Machine — You Are the Experiment
Part 4 — Every scroll, every pause, every click feeds the lab.
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Big Tech Is Building More Than a Ballroom
The same companies that shape your screen are now shaping state power.
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The Media Takeover You Missed
Part 1 of The Manufactured Reality: How Trump’s Network Is Rebuilding Media to Control Perception
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When Manufactured Outrage Meets Machine Vision
How AI, right-wing media, and an FCC chair turned a late-night joke into a political weapon.
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The Four-Fingered Protester
When government agencies use AI-altered images to justify crackdowns, it’s not propaganda evolving — it’s reality collapsing.
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The Protest Photo That Fooled the News
A single AI-altered image ran in The Atlantic, NPR, The Guardian, and USA Today — with no disclosure.
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Manufacturing Evidence
How conservative influencer Benny Johnson became the Trump administration’s most effective content operator
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Outrage Is the Product
How the NFL and conservative media weaponized Bad Bunny to win the Attention Economy
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Taylor Swift and the Quiet Normalization of AI
The pop star who warned about AI misinformation is now using it — without disclosure
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When Influencers Become the Press
Inside Trump’s White House program turning content creators into credentialed storytellers