The Doctor in Your Feed Isn’t Real
The people cashing in on fake doctors, and the platforms that pay them to keep posting.
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The AI Reckoning
Part 4: AI Won't Kill You. The People Building It Might.
The System Is Built for the Grift
How one AI influencer exposed the machine that pays people to lie to you.
The AI Reckoning
Part 3: The AI Agents That Hacked Their Way Out of The Lab
"Hook, Hold, Harvest, Hide"
The four words that summed up Meta's case, a $17 billion settlement, and what all of it means for your teenager.
The $400 Million Illusion: Why the TikTok Settlement Won't Protect Your Kids
It looks like the government cracked down. It mostly just collected a check.
The Epistemic Glitch: Why We Fight Over Images We Can No Longer Verify
The panic over Ariana Grande's weight is a dress rehearsal. The real performance, waged over political images we can't confirm are real, is still to come.
The Ad Was Fake. The Reach Was Real.
A synthetic attack ad cost a couple hundred dollars to run and reached six million people. Here’s how that happens — and how to see it coming.
I Use AI. Here’s Why That’s Exactly the Point.
How an independent media critic uses the machine to expose the machine.
Social Proof & Conformity Bias
Why we look to the crowd — and why the crowd is not what it seems
The Government Manufactured a Crime to Justify Watching You
How a botched contract at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool became a surveillance operation, built on video no one could verify.
Seen Everywhere, Checked Nowhere
What a viral World Cup story reveals about the modern information ecosystem.
Algorithmic Influence
The Invisible Editor
Algorithmic influence is designed to go unnoticed. The TikTok deal is a warning about who controls it — and who inherits it next.
Media AI Watch
Media AI Watch
The disappearing thumb on Meet The Press.
Billionaire Influence
The Billionaires Who Decide What You See
Control of American media is collapsing into a handful of owners — every one of them courting the same White House.
Media Accountability
When a Newspaper Decides the Truth Is Optional
The Washington Post editorial board defended a man whose viral, discredited claims helped fuel an operation that killed two Americans.
The Blueprint
The Illusory Truth Effect
How repetition gets turned into belief
Media Literacy
Quarantined in Nebraska, Brought to You by Heinz
The New York Times called him an influencer. The morning shows that reached millions did not.
Government AI Watch
Government AI Watch: The Selfie
An attempted presidential assassination. A federal court filing. A photograph the government admits was enhanced.
Meta
Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Have a Privacy Problem
Inside the global pipeline that turns "Hey Meta" into a stranger watching you undress.
White House Correspondents Dinner
Inside the Lie Factory
How a Vietnamese clickbait operation paired Cole Allen with fifty celebrities, and the 7 billion reasons Meta has to let it happen.
Media Literacy
The Amish lady selling you supplements doesn't exist.
Inside the AI-generated influencer operation that hundreds of thousands of people trust for health advice.
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Government AI Watch
The FBI released this video. The New York Times analyzed it. Nobody asked why a man's forearm vanishes into a door, and reappears a frame later.
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Government AI Watch
The official White House Instagram posted this. No label. No disclosure.