The #ABC's US correspondent Barbara Miller is doing the bare minimum to keep her job.

Stenography is not #journalism.

#Trump #ElonMusk #Vivek #misinformation #auspol

Dutton gets a free pass from the media at large for a huge gaffe (a lie) on #Labor's #housing numbers.

How did the #ABC react when #Albo got the jobless rate wrong in the 2022 election campaign? It was a feeding frenzy.... Franzy. It went on for weeks.

#journalism #misinformation #auspol

#LNP leader Peter #Dutton just told 12 minutes of Trumpian lies with zero pushback/fact-checking from a mob of journalists.

One journalist did find to promote one of his lies as a chyron.

#journalism #bias #misinformation #auspol

The #ABC parrots #Trump-style #misinformation on #qanda.

This is why Trump-wannabe Dutton will win the next Australian election.

#journalism #auspol

"How media ‘fluff’ helped Hitler rise to power."

"By the end of the 1930s, news stories around the world described him as a caring, gentle individual with great taste in home décor."

#journalism #misinformation #disinformation #Trump

https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2015/08/034.html

The media hates educating the public about the disgusting stuff the Right says, with Senator Ralph Babet being the latest example.

Mark Di Stefano, a journalist with 100k followers, has only tweeted about #Trump 11 times in 2024. #weird

#journalism #misinformation #auspol

And that is why several years ago Musk with the help of Saudi and other investors bought Twitter and turned it into his own private megaphone.

And you know what?

It worked…

#Election2024 #manipulation #media #misinformation

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/a-new-era-dawns-americas-tech-bros-now-strut-their-stuff-in-the-corridors-of-power

After four years of covering gaffes, the #ABC is back to covering policy.

A bit late fellas.

#Trump #journalism #misinformation #auspol

The focus of #journalism should be facts, not balance.

“Reuters/Ipsos poll found a powerfully strong connection between people who believed provably false information and whether they planned to vote for #Trump or #Harris”

#elections #misinformation #education

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trust-mainstream-media-2024-election-20241110.html

Trump's potential re-election would reinforce concerns that the combination of US social media platforms and their legal protections from liability for user content may be fundamentally incompatible with the civility democracy requires.

#socialmedia #democracy #misinformation

The Daily Show: "Desi Lydic Reacts to #Trump's Election Win & the Media's Blame Game".

#elections #journalism #misinformation #USElection2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPHH5trgC1w

PM Albo announces Rupert Murdoch as the new Social Media commissioner, to police #misinformation spread to children.

This tweet is a parody. Barely.

#SocialMedia #journalism #disinformation #auspol

The media and Kamala #Harris’s campaign team have failed to educate the public on the state of the #economy.

#Trump #journalism #misinformation #HarrisWalz2024

#PSA Regular reminder that...

#Israel has existed long enough to have families whose #immigrant ancestors have all died of old age, and most #Israelis are from the #MiddleEast, while many of the #Jews who immigrated were fleeing persecution campaigns like the #Holocaust, and don't have anywhere else to go.

They exist, have a right to exist, and aren't realistically going anywhere.

#Palestine has existed for thousands of years, the vast majority of #Palestinian families have been there for so long there is no longer a clear record of when they got there, but genetic testing has shown that the typical Palestinian is descended from #Jewish people.

They exist, have a right to exist, and aren't realistically going anywhere.

The solution to the #IsraeliPalestinianConflict is to get past the violence, and get them to live in their shared region in #peace.

Anyone who says otherwise is #racist / #antisemetic / #islamophobic, and advocating #genocide, and their input should be rejected for it.

#misinformation

Republicans bring back fake electors in battlegrounds https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/04/trump-fake-electors-return-election-denial-00186977?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Financialcrime/fraud #Electionsecurity #Disinformation #Misinformation #SocialMedia #Department #Elections #Security #Defense #Courts #Rights #Fraud #Media #Poll

A website posts an article about a parade that doesn't exist. This news spreads and a huge crowd shows up for a #Halloween parade that was not happening (this year).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd5319pz2ro

#Media #Dublin #misinformation

(I've seen toots saying this was AI but the BBC article does not say that.)

Fascism starts slowly until it doesn't. Not only Bezos and the billionaires who are hedging and hoping to remain untouched/unharmed if trump wins. How about the National Archives rewriting — whitewashing — history —
https://thepit.social/@acdha/113414969541895673
h/t @acdha
[The Atlantic: What it feels like when Fascism starts https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/12/the-oppermanns-book-holocaust-nazi-fascism/672505/]
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election #elections #Harris #Walz #HarrisWalz #vote #VoteBlue #VoteSmart #misinformation #disinformation #fascism

We live in an amazing time—a Pakistani website specializing in publishing fake news created by AI to earn advertising revenue published an announcement of a non-existent Halloween parade in Dublin. The article was picked up by search algorithms and rose in Google's results. Journalists began spreading the news in their publications without even bothering to verify it. As a result, thousands of people came to the square, ready to participate in a parade that didn't exist. #FakeNews #AI #Media #Dublin #Halloween #Misinformation

July 2024: The #ABC's Michael Rowland attacks President Joe Biden for using the word 'BULLSEYE'.
(#Misinformation from #Russia)

REAL journalists understand context.
REAL journalists don't use:
- gaffes
- gotchas
- narratives

#journalism #bias #Garbage #auspol

Full article: Perceptions of #misinformation salience: a cross-country comparison of estimations of misinformation prevalence and third-person perceptions - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2375256 #journalism #paper #disinformation

Climate and vaccine misinformation seemed worlds apart – but it turned out the Cranky Uncle was a universal figure https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/07/cranky-uncle-climate-change-game-vaccine-misinformation-john-cook #misinformation

Grok's selling point is real-time access to news, but Motherboard found that it generated inaccurate information about Israel-Palestine and lent credence to conspiracy theories.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxqp9/elon-musks-grok-ai-is-pushing-misinformation-and-legitimizing-conspiracies?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#elonmusk #X #grokAI #ChatGPT #israel #palestine #misinformation #pizzagate #CrisisActor

‘Serious breach’: social media platform X booted from Australia’s misinformation code https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/27/x-twitter-removed-digi-misinformation-code-australia #auslaw #auspol #socialmedia #misinformation

“What’s at stake here is literal human life. But Palestinian life matters so little, that spreading incendiary information that justifies Israeli war crimes isn’t a concern for those tasked to punch up to power by virtue of being journalists.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/11/israel-hamas-disinformation/

#tech #misinformation #gaza #israel

GRAPHIC CONTENT
V @zurch #BBC North America correspondent:
'Murdered #children are a heartbreaking tragedy no matter how they were killed. But Mr #Biden ’s remarks complicate matters for the US as it seeks to aid and support #Israel

As the fog of war continues to swirl around this new conflict, any walking back or confusion risks aiding those who are trying to sow #misinformation and cast doubt on events and atrocities that are verifiably true.'

I was concerned that this tool could be used to write #misinformation - which it does, but you can then tell it to debunk it.

SO, although you could use a tool like this to create large amounts of noise for people to sift-through... you can also use it to sift through noise.

Though, important to note - no references provided by either side of this #ai argument. Time for more tests..

(formatting my own)