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As seen in: Question Everything (Podcast), Fandom, TechRadar, Vanity Fair, CBR, Washington Times, KCRW-FM (Santa Monica, CA), Poetry Magazine, Poetry Off the Shelf, EIN News, The Paris Review and
Investigative Journalist Host, “Question Everything" podcast (@placementtheory) Past: @stownpodcast, @serial, @thisamericanlife, @nytimes Signal: brihreed.45
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‘Kick Him Off The Bench.’ A Judge in Trump’s Pulitzer Case Gets a Prize

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By Brian Reed
| listennotes.com
The Freedom of the Press Foundation just filed an ethics complaint against Florida Judge Jeffrey Kuntz, who has been nominated by President Trump for a lifetime federal court appointment. They want him stripped of his gavel and his law license. Why? Judge Kuntz was one of the judges who ruled in Trump’s favor in his peculiar defamation lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize board.
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Can a Chatbot Convince Conspiracy Theorists of the Truth?

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By Brian Reed
| listennotes.com
Like millions of others, Gordon Pennycook’s older brother has leapt down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, and Gordon says he’s tried to change his brother’s mind, without success. Which tracks, if you’ve ever debated a conspiracy theorist — it can feel impossible to pull them back to reality. If anyone was qualified to convince his brother, though, it’s Gordon, who’s a psychology professor at Cornell University where he studies why people believe things that aren’t true.
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Claude’s Russian Propaganda Problem

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By Brian Reed
| listennotes.com
According to the fact-checking company NewsGuard, Claude has been a very reliable and accurate chatbot. But in the last month or so, users have started complaining that it seemed to be getting slower, stupider, and less trustworthy. So NewsGuard AI analyst Isis Blachez ran a test on Claude, to see if it is actually getting worse.
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