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Psychology: Your brain fixates on bad things, and propagandists use that to manipulate you
A new book discusses our focus on negative news - and how negativity in all aspects of our life is…
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Journalism: Newsweek caught making up a story. Again.
Newsweek did it again. They just keep making things up. I grew up on Newsweek and this surely isn't the…
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Business: “Fake Diversity” used to fool consumers
Rather than hire actual diverse workforces, or recruit actual diverse student bodies, businesses and universities are using AI generated fake…
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Mass hysteria: Delusions of drone sightings
The FAA and other officials, using high tech gear, are unable to locate any drones among the media reports of…
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Journalism: A little duct tape, some Gorilla Glue and they should be good to go
Get a good laugh at this C-130 with a destroyed left wing and left engines - and the headline saying…
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Social media: Did you know you can’t trust what you read on social media? 🙂
A Facebook bug inadvertently revealed the names of who is actually writing the content of various online personalities. What a…
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Privacy: Facial recognition everywhere, whether you approve or not
Facial recognition is popping up everywhere and will be used to amass databases of your daily life and your interactions.…
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Social media: Are fewer and fewer people posting Tweets?
Twitter is randomly inserting tweets from people I do not follow and this seems to be increasing. That suggests fewer…
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Journalism: It’s all 24×7 rage, says former NBC TV Anchor
Tom Brokaw, former NBC TV news anchor, now retired, notes that today's media (and culture) has devolved to 24 x…
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Begging the Question Fallacy: Boeing, after showing us who they are, says this is not who they are
After Boeing's internal records show employees criticizing the safety of the 737 MAX, Boeing insists "this is not who we…
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