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At least six news sites in the UK and US have run a pretty obvious fake news story about "pregnancy robots" — and they're still live.

Mainstream Publications Are Getting Suckered by a Ridiculous Fake News Story About a “Pregnancy Robot”

By Noor Al-Sibai

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk just can't stop falling for fake news on his own social media network.

Gullible Elon Musk Falls for Fake News Again, Deletes Post

By Victor Tangermann

X owner Elon Musk fell for fake news on X-formerly-Twitter after making fun of people who "believe everything" in the news.

Elon Musk Bashes the News Media, Then Immediately Falls for Fake News

By Victor Tangermann

A tiny cohort of "supersharers" spread the majority of fake news on Twitter during the 2020 election. They were mostly older white women.

Scientists Find That a Tiny Proportion of People Spread Almost All the Fake News, and They Turn Out to Be Exactly Who You’d Expect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After reelection, Philadelphia's sheriff has been forced to admit that articles cited as positive press for her campaign were made up by AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Embattled Sheriff Caught Posting AI-Generated Headlines About How She’s Awesome

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CEO of a crypto Ponzi scheme appears, much like the promises his firm made to investors, to be completely fake.

CEO of $1.3 Billion Crypto Firm Appears to Be Entirely Fake

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI-generated article about a murder that never happened in New Jersey has police and local news outlets in a tizzy.

Artificial Intelligence

Police Say AI-Generated Article About Local Murder Is “Entirely” Made Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

A book claiming to document the events of the Maui wildfires was published on Amazon just days after the deadly disaster had begun.

Artificial Intelligence

Seemingly AI-Written Book on Maui Wildfire Becomes Amazon Bestseller, Gets Taken Down

By Frank Landymore

The age of AI arrests appears to have begun in China, where a man who used ChatGPT to allegedly generate fake news headlines was detained.

China Arrests Man for Using ChatGPT to Write Fake News

By Noor Al-Sibai

MSN has deleted some of their garbage fake news, but continues to publish fake stories about the Loch Ness Monster, haunted toys, and killer asteorids.

Artificial Intelligence

MSN Deletes Fake News About Mermaids and Bigfoot, Runs New Story About Haunted Ventriloquist Dummy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

MSN peddled a story about Grimes and Elon Musk based on a fake tweet. Now it's boosting another article that claims a "dark beast" was spotted on Mars.

MSN Fired Its Human Journalists and Replaced Them With AI That Publishes Fake News About Mermaids and Bigfoot

By Frank Landymore

Twitter testing out a new feature on Android that would prompt users if they want to click and actually read the dang article they're planning to retweet.

Twitter Is Calling You Out for Sharing Articles You Haven’t Read

By Victor Tangermann

An tech company published a website, purportedly meant to help journalists write better, that's using AI to publish believable fake news articles.

Artificial Intelligence

This Site Uses AI to Generate Fake News Articles

By Dan Robitzski

In a call with reporters on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the social media company has nixed 5.4 billion fake accounts in 2019 alone.

Facebook Says It Has Shut Down 5.4 Billion Fake Accounts in 2019

By Victor Tangermann

An AI text generator trained on real speeches by President Donald Trump fooled quiz participants with its output more than half the time.

Artificial Intelligence

This “RoboTrump” AI Mimics the President’s Writing Style

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers from Harvard and MIT's IBM Watson Lab have created an AI system that can detect if text or fake news was generated by another AI.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Can Help Humans Spot AI-Generated Fake News

By Victor Tangermann