The photo below, which quickly went viral, isn’t real. It’s artificial intelligence fakery. But the stock market dipped on the “news;” somebody pocketed money from this hoax. Read story here. The internet has always been a cesspool of lies and misinformation, and it’s about to get[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hoaxes’
May 19th, 2023 - 6:42 pm § in News Media, Politics
Tale of migrants displacing homeless veterans is a hoax
A viral tale was born when the New York Post published an article (here) on May 12, 2023, claiming that “nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants.” The Post’s source was Sharon Toney-Finch, CEO of the Yerik Israel [...]
October 29th, 2022 - 7:52 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Where does the GOP get these candidates?
Don Bolduc, the GOP Senate nominee in New Hampshire, last week told a crowd at a campaign event “that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and use litter boxes in schools,” CNN reported on Saturday, October 29, 2022 (see story here). “Guess what? We have fu[...]
A brief history of Bigfoot
This photo is probably the best-known image of a “Bigfoot,” a legendary creature believed by some to inhabit the forests of the Pacific Northwest from California to British Columbia. It’s from a grainy home movie shot in the woods of northern California in October 1967. In the movi[...]