misinformation
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Casualties of Misinformation & Psychological Impact
I wrote about a false Facebook post earlier. Someone with a platform and self-declared expertise posted statistics about UK Reform that actually came from Estonia’s Reform Party. Different country. Different party. Same name. When I corrected it with the source, I got blocked. In Brief: False information posted with authority doesn’t just spread lies, it…
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Fact-Checking Gets You Blocked – A Misinformation Case Study
In Brief: I corrected false information on Facebook this morning. The person who posted it deleted the evidence, accused me of trolling, and blocked me. This wasn’t some random keyboard warrior spouting rubbish in a comments section. This was someone claiming to be a leading expert on violence against women and children in the UK,…
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Your Brain Is Being Hijacked for Profit. Here’s the Proof.
In Brief: That viral post about Australian swimmer Mollie O’Callaghan threatening to boycott the 2028 Olympics over Lia Thomas? Completely fabricated. O’Callaghan never said it, Swimming Australia officially intervened to get it removed, and Thomas can’t compete in 2028 anyway because World Aquatics already banned her in 2022 after she lost her legal challenge. The…
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The Outrage Machine Never Wants The Story To End
The modern internet doesn’t want resolution. It wants seasons. Pick any headline that has dominated the UK over the last few years. Lucy Letby. Jeffrey Epstein. Keir Starmer. Lucy Connolly. Search YouTube. Or don’t, if you value your sanity. What you’ll see isn’t reporting. It’s manufacturing. “Bombshell update.” “Everything changes today.” “Starmer is FINISHED.” “They…
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AI Slop is Not New, Just Industrialised
The behaviour came first, the label arrived later. For many years, lazy and shady people have been building “channels” by scraping other people’s clips, Reddit posts, pet videos, podcast moments and news footage, then stitching them into compilations with a new title, thumbnail and maybe a watermark. AI simply took that lazy mentality and put…
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The Great AI Pivot: Everyone’s an Expert Now
We’re closing in on the end of 2024 and the AI grift is in full swing. Anyone with a few followers, or a few million, has gradually pivoted into talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) as if they are seasoned experts. But let’s be honest, most of them haven’t a bloody clue what they’re talking about.…
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Ragebait, Deepfakes and the Death of Trust Online
This has been bothering me for a while, and it’s finally tipped over from background noise into something I can’t ignore. Ragebait isn’t new. Sensationalism isn’t new. People twisting stories for attention has been around as long as people have been selling newspapers on street corners. What is new is how little effort it now…