Hyper Coverage Of AOC’s ‘Um’ Non-Scandal Highlights How The U.S. Press Is Eager To Be Gamed By Bad Actors
Hyper Coverage Of AOC’s ‘Um’ Non-Scandal Highlights How The U.S. Press Is Eager To Be Gamed By Bad Actors
Geez Tudor Dixon girl go AWAY
So let’s recap: The owner of the Midwesterner, which publishes reams of anti-Democrat and anti-Whitmer content (much of it likely AI-generated), is literally the president of her Republican challenger’s campaign. And they went into business together with Dixon’s husband nearly a decade ago, long before Dixon ran for office.
I hate Substack, but this seems like valuable info re: the sexist AOC attacks.
https://spinclass.substack.com/p/spin-class-case-study-i-caught-politico
via https://bsky.app/profile/newsjennifer.bsky.social/post/3mfkqyrvxak2k
U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appeared on a panel together at the 62nd Munich Security Conference along with Matthew Whittaker, United States ambassador to NATO. They talked about complicated issues of foreign policy and geo-diplomacy for an hour or so and it was, at the time, seen as an uncontroversial, non-newsworthy conversation. Yet a few days later, the press was full of stories about their slip-ups and lack of knowledge. Emily Horne, a former National Security Council and State Department spokesperson, did a deep dive into what had happened. What she found? Stories from "pink slime" sites — local news publications that are largely funded by right-wing dark money groups — picked up and "laundered" into real news by POLITICO, The New York Times and more.
#News #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #AOC #GretchenWhitmer #PinkSlime
We know how AI is affecting the wider information & news ecosystem - here's James Cracknell in the @enfielddispatch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("written by real, local people, who care about where they live") on a fake local website in North #London.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/how-ai-is-po...
#pinkslime #localnews
How AI is polluting the intern...
#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
List of political disinformation website campaigns in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_disinformation_website_campaigns_in_the_United_States
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_political_disinformation_website_campaigns_in_the_United_States
Sky news are reporting on the upcoming Reform conference, mostly in fairly glowing terms. The only reference to Farage's USA trip is he returns from a meeting with Donald Trump. No mention at all of his humiliation when he spoke to congress. None. So, here's what happened, available in other papers if you hate the Grdn. UK media really needs to do journalism, not pink news slime.
#news #ukpolitics #PinkSlime #journalism
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/03/nigel-farage-called-a-putin-loving-free-speech-imposter-during-bumpy-us-congressional-hearing
WARNING: What’s hiding in your food? 🚨
13 shocking food additives that are banned in many countries—but still legal in your supermarket. From pink slime to growth hormones, this video reveals what to avoid and how to protect your health.
🎥 Watch now: https://youtu.be/TEB0QFdDNtY
#HealthyEating #BannedIngredients #FoodSafety #Nutrition #PinkSlime #VitalAgingWorld
New post.
Versions of both the Jan. 7 City Council agenda, and Jan. 16 Rules Committee agenda were image-only until sometime around 3:30 PM on Jan. 9, with an updated version being published during the drafting of this article.
https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2025/01/chicopee-begins-optical-character.html
#massachusetts #pinkslime #westernmass #chicopee #pioneervalley #hampdencounty
New post. This is the fourth public pool in Chicopee found to be contaminated with PCBs, which were once used as plasticizers in paint and caulk, before being banned in 1979.
https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2025/01/chicopee-approves-19-million-renovation.html
Based and car-pilled new post. In a reversal of a decision a judge described as "not arbitrary or capricious," Chicopee approves plans to build a truck stop next to a truck stop on Burnett Road.
https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/plans-to-build-truck-stop-next-to-truck.html
New post. I filed an Open Meeting Law complaint against the Chicopee City Council because it doesn't OCR its agendas or minutes. https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/meta-i-filed-open-meeting-law-complaint.html
#massachusetts #pinkslime #localnews #westernmass #chicopee #mapoli #openmeeting #OCR #ADA
New post. Should the police use AI to streamline report writing, or should this be reserved for hack journalists? https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/chicopee-finance-committee-green-lights.html
#massachusetts
#pinkslime
#localnews
#westernmass
#chicopee
#mapoli
#axon
New post. Chicopee to spend nearly $800,000 on AI tech for police department. https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/christmas-comes-early-for-chicopee.html
#Massachusetts #Chicopee #WesternMA #mapoli #Springfieldmetropolotianstatisticalarea #mapoli #LLM #localnews #pinkslime
#axon #ai #ml #police
https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/mark-mccarthy-appointed-to-fill-vacant.html?m=1
Mark McCarthy appointed to fill vacant school committee seat in Chicopee
also renamed my blog to The Generative Adversarial News Network because The Onion stole my infowars joke and didn't have the courtesy to threaten me with a lawsuit even after I emailed their legal dept.
#Massachusetts #Chicopee #WesternMA #Springfieldmetropolotianstatisticalarea #mapoli #LLM #localnews #pinkslime #pinkslimejournalism
https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/chicopee-city-council-approves-property.html
Chicopee City Council approves property tax increase for 2025
#Massachusetts #westernmass #Chicopee #localnews #LLM #pinkslime
https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/chicopee-city-council-throws-support.html
Experiment with AI generated local news coverage. If anyone has tips or advice please reach out. I have no clue what I'm doing.
#AI #LLM #Ollama #localnews #massachusetts #pinkslime "#hyperlocal #thedeathoftheauthor
Reading up more on pink slime. This article is from Oct 2023, but there are now a good number of academic articles on the problem of slime in the open knowledge web (aka the knowledge commons). Slime sites can be about recipes, pets, car stuff, gun stuff, fishing, yadda yadda, and news, especially local news. The more slime there is, the more likely it gets scraped into new LLM training data. Model collapse is still a thing.
#slime #PinkSlime #ai #GenAI #data
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/media-literacy/2023/pink-slime-journalism-local-news-deserts/
Same people coordinate + fund attacks on: low income/trans/First Nations/🙋♀️/🏳️🌈/reproductive/migrant/voting rights health/education/housing/climate action + the fight *for* dark money, corruption, weapons + war, #pinkslime media ownership because all connected. The response needs to be too.