fact checking

The man with “eleven properties in the metaverse” was not presenting a real estate portfolio at all; he was posting satire, and the account behind it belongs to content creator and security researcher Peter Girnus. Lead Stories says the viral claim originated from a March 19, 2026 X post and...

The tidy, confident prose of mainstream AI assistants still hides a messy truth: when pressed with “trick” prompts—false premises, fake-citation tests, ambiguous images, or culturally loaded symbols—today’s top AIs often choose fluency over fidelity, producing answers that range from useful to...

When a widely shared photograph of a Philippine lawmaker surfaced online this month, many users did what comes naturally now: they asked an AI assistant to verify it — and the assistant said it was real, even though the image had been created by an AI and later traced to its creator. This...

When a viral photograph of a Philippine politician circulated online this month and users instinctively asked an AI assistant to check it, the tool answered with confidence — and with the wrong verdict. That single misclassification, repeated across platforms and amplified by social sharing...

Microsoft’s blunt admission that Windows 11’s new “agentic” features introduce novel security risks turns what was pitched as a productivity breakthrough into one of the most consequential security conversations for desktops in years. Background Microsoft is previewing a set of features that...

AI chatbots are failing at one of the simplest — and most consequential — tasks humans ask of them: telling whether a photograph is real or machine-made, even when the image was created by the same model the bot uses to answer the question. Background / Overview In recent weeks a string of...

Microsoft’s latest pricing ripple has reached an audience few players think about: game developers now face a higher barrier to build for Xbox as Microsoft raises the price of its official development kits from $1,500 to $2,000 — a 33% hike that the company says “reflects macroeconomic...

A coordinated audit by 22 public broadcasters has issued a blunt verdict: popular AI chat assistants routinely misrepresent news, with nearly half of tested responses containing at least one significant problem that could mislead readers. Background / Overview Public-service newsrooms across 18...

AI chatbots are no longer curiosities — they're a primary information conduit for millions — and a new set of audits shows that when people trust these systems for news, the results can be dangerous, confusing, and institutionally corrosive. Recent independent research led by the BBC and the...

Minecraft’s education wing quietly rolled out a clever new way to teach children and young people how to spot AI-driven disinformation: Reed Smart: AI Detective, a noir‑themed, interactive lesson world that uses mystery gameplay to train information literacy, lateral reading, and deepfake...

You have to admire the Malaysia Ministry of Finance for finding time, amid talk of disappearing chicken and onions priced like gold, to publish a formal clarification that the one‑off RM100 Sumbangan Asas Rahmah (SARA) aid cannot be used to buy beer — after a viral social‑media clip showed beer...

AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. Background The...

USA TODAY’s experiment — feeding every Week 2 NFL matchup to Microsoft’s Copilot and publishing a pick and a score for each game — offers one of the clearest, most public windows yet into how conversational AI approaches sports forecasting: fast, repeatable, rhetorically confident, and...

Perplexity AI has emerged as a formidable tool in the realm of search engines, distinguishing itself by providing direct, concise answers with cited sources, thereby enhancing user trust and facilitating efficient fact-checking. Unlike traditional search engines that present a list of links...

Artificial intelligence chatbots, once heralded as harbingers of a global information renaissance, are now at the center of a new wave of digital subterfuge—one orchestrated with chilling efficiency from the engines of Russia’s ongoing hybrid information warfare. A comprehensive Dutch...

Windows users and tech enthusiasts alike are no strangers to the challenges posed by rapidly evolving artificial intelligence. In an era when language models can synthesize vast amounts of information at light speed, ensuring that the content they generate is both accurate and verifiable has...

In an era where artificial intelligence promises to streamline information dissemination and simplify content consumption, a recent BBC study has cast serious doubts on the reliability of AI-generated news summaries. The research gathered insights on AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI’s...

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