They say a lie travels around the world before the truth has time to put on its pants. Lies shoot through MAGAworld before the truth even has time to wake up and figure out what the heck is going on. On Monday, far-right accounts began circulating videos purporting to show fencing and barricades lining the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are challenging patents on 20 brand name drugs, including the blockbuster weight-loss injection Ozempic, in the latest action by the Biden administration targeting industry practices that drive up pharmaceutical prices. The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday sent warning letters to 10 drugmakers, taking issue with patents on popular drugs for […]
A manipulated picture that surfaced online days before India began its marathon election on April 19 falsely claimed a major newspaper published a “mega survey” that found an opposition alliance was set to win in states ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s party. The Dainik Bhaskar newspaper denied publishing such a survey, while analysts said […]
Nearly four years after Joe Biden flipped Arizona blue, the state — and in particular, its largest county, Maricopa — remains a hub for debunked claims of election fraud. In 2021, Republicans pushed for a recount of the vote in Maricopa, a lengthy and chaotic process that failed to validate former President Donald Trump’s false […]
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. The White House is formally calling on Fox News to walk back its coverage of bribery and corruption allegations against President Joe Biden. In a letter sent to the […]
Attorneys for the president’s son say an FBI informant’s lies have “infected” the case against their client. Hunter Biden faces federal charges for having failed to pay his taxes on time and for illegally owning a gun when he was addicted to crack cocaine. A plea deal and diversion agreement collapsed last summer over a […]
The campaign team behind Philadelphia’s embattled sheriff acknowledged on Monday that a series of positive news stories posted to their website was generated by ChatGPT. Sheriff Rochelle Bilal’s campaign removed more than 30 stories created by a consultant using the artificially intelligent chatbot. The move came after a Philadelphia Inquirer story on Monday reported that […]
Conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and his former organization Project Veritas have settled a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania postmaster after the group spread a Postal Service worker’s false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election. A lawyer who represented Robert Weisenbach, the Erie postmaster who filed the lawsuit in state court, confirmed that […]
Trump lawyer Alina Habba on Monday claimed that the judge who oversaw the former president’s defamation trial has a conflict of interest and argued that it may warrant overturning writer E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million jury award. Habba in a letter to the federal court in Manhattan cited a Jan. 27 New York Post article […]
A Georgia woman is accused of filing more than 40 phony pet insurance claims in her dog’s name — a scheme investigators said netted her $45,000. The 39-year-old from Dallas, Georgia, fudged invoices and lied about veterinary visits, according to Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King. From January 2019 to December 2022, she […]
Donald Trump’s former “fixer,” Michael Cohen, used Google Bard to cite made-up legal cases that ended up in a federal court. The New York Times reported Friday that Cohen admitted in unsealed court papers that he passed on documents referencing bogus cases to his lawyer, who then relayed them to a federal judge. Cohen reportedly […]
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, the onetime fixer for former President Donald Trump, said in newly unsealed court papers that he had mistakenly given his lawyer bogus legal citations after the artificial intelligence program Google Bard cooked them up for him. The fictitious citations were then used in a motion provided to a Manhattan federal […]