Fake News 2024

[Edgy MD]

Doing a basic news search on Google and other basic search engines has become far more complicated of late, due to the number of fake news sights multiplying by 10 (10!) or more in the last few months. Trying to find out what's up with John Curtiss takes a lot of deep diving because 18 of the first 20 hits (sorting for relevancy or recency or whatever) are going to be nonsense sites populated by AI with scraped together clusters of text from old news stories legitimately posted elsewhere. Or they are fake marketing sites allegedly trying to sell me a John Curtiss game-used jersey that I'll never see, but they've manipulated their SEO to make them appear as news sites to browser algorithms.

It's all of a piece, I guess, with a current common refrain that the Web isn't fun anymore, but I don't know if "fun" is where things are failing for me, so much as "functional."

Regulation ain't such a dirty word.

[kcmets]

X Considering Changing Name Back to Twitter

Musk, when asked why, says Donald told me to while I
was sucking his tiny orange dick.

Details at eleven.

[MFS62]

The fakest news you could hear, presented by mother-Tucker Carlson.
He gave a two hour airing to an antisemite and Liz Cheney's post went viral:

Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney is blasting former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for interviewing a podcaster who argued that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was searching for "peace."
Carlson conducted an interview of more than two hours with podcaster Darryl Cooper, whom Carlson called "the most important popular historian working in the United States today," in a video posted on Monday to X, formerly Twitter.

"Actually, this is pro-Nazi propaganda, including, 'Churchill was the chief villain of WW2' and Hitler 'didn't want to fight,'" Cheney wrote in response to Carlson's video post. "No serious or honorable person would support or endorse this type of garbage."

https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-rip ... st-1948365

Later