On this week’s Galaxy Brain episode, Charlie Warzel is joined by New York Times technology reporter Tiffany Hsu to discuss the rise of AI influencers—synthetic avatars, often indistinguishable from ...

An episode of “Hey Duggee”, a bbc children’s show, takes seven minutes to watch and about five months to make. Before Duggee—think Mary Poppins in dog form—can go to space or bake a cake or teach ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, social media was littered with crude fakes that were presented as fresh images of the war but were either photoshopped phonies or mislabeled clips taken from ...

X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war. When disinformation expert Tal Hagin asked Grok to verify a post ...

A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...

The new dual live-action and animation preschool series Monster Makes, from Terrific Television, is slated to premiere on March 16 on CBeebies. “Monster Makes is everything we love in a CBeebies ...

Counterfeit iPhones have become increasingly sophisticated, making it harder to distinguish them from genuine Apple devices. However, by carefully examining key aspects such as packaging, design, ...

On Facebook, people are posting just about everything. From those sharing their life accomplishments, people inquiring about who knows a good plumber, and those igniting conversations through ...

The White House just dropped a flamethrower on the Fake News Media: a new public database that catalogs the avalanche of lies, deliberate distortions, and manufactured hoaxes churned out by activist ...

ABC “News” is not journalism — it’s a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network. The network’s longstanding commitment to hoaxes, character assassinations, and outright fiction ...

One of the phenomena triggered by the AI boom in recent years is deepfakes. The term is made up of the words deep learning and fake. Deep learning refers to machine learning methods, while a fake is a ...

Service dogs can be four-legged lifesavers, alerting to dangerous allergens, assisting with travel and making people with a wide range of disabilities safer. But fake service dogs, advocates say, are ...