• AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms

    AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms

    Mar 14, 2024 01:03 AM EDT

    ... which has just 11 employees, according to its website — has largely kept silent in the public debate over how generative AI tools could fuel election misinformation around the world. Midjourney was the only maker of a leading image-generating tool that didn't join a voluntary tech industry pact in ...

  • GOP state lawmakers refuse to revisit abortion bans, but some say they'll offer more clarity on rules

    GOP state lawmakers refuse to revisit abortion bans, but some say they'll offer more clarity on rules

    Mar 11, 2024 05:36 PM EDT

    ... laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear, resulting in denied treatment to some pregnant women in need. Instead, GOP leaders accuse abortion rights advocates of deliberately spreading misinformation and doctors of intentionally denying services in an effort to undercut the bans and make a political point. At the same time, however, some ...

  • The NYPD is using social media to target critics

    The NYPD is using social media to target critics

    Mar 08, 2024 11:19 PM EDT

    ... agenda or attack other civil servants. But the NYPD hasn’t backed down. “We want to go on social media and push back on the misinformation that’s out there,” Tarik Sheppard, the NYPD’s top spokesperson, said in an interview. “Because if we don’t, it could cause damage ...

  • Uvalde parents lash out after new report clears city police of wrongdoing during 2022 mass shooting

    Uvalde parents lash out after new report clears city police of wrongdoing during 2022 mass shooting

    Mar 07, 2024 10:04 PM EDT

    ... in January. The report also found failings in the aftermath, with untrained hospital staff improperly delivering painful news and officials giving families mixed messages and misinformation about victims and survivors. One official told waiting families that another bus of survivors was coming, but that was untrue. Texas Republican Gov. Greg ...

  • ‘Burn Book' explores Kara Swisher’s life and complicated relationship with tech industry

    ‘Burn Book' explores Kara Swisher’s life and complicated relationship with tech industry

    Mar 05, 2024 11:35 PM EDT

    ... you see between what we are living today and what you were studying back then? Kara Swisher: It's the same thing. They call it misinformation, disinformation, digital, all kinds of bots. It's propaganda. And so now, with -- and especially since we're addicted to these devices, it gets ...

  • Live updates: Super Tuesday

    Live updates: Super Tuesday

    Mar 05, 2024 10:49 PM EDT

    ... From there, the ballot is sent to the Mission Control Center in Houston and forwarded to the county clerk’s office. Emergency robocalls correct voting misinformation in North Carolina COLUMBIA, S.C. — North Carolina officials activated emergency robocalls Tuesday to correct misinformation from a country music radio station serving a ...

  • Chatbot info on U.S. elections is inaccurate, misleading and could keep voters from polls, report finds

    Chatbot info on U.S. elections is inaccurate, misleading and could keep voters from polls, report finds

    Feb 27, 2024 09:47 PM EDT

    ... support the answers they generated to medical questions. OpenAI, which last month outlined a plan to prevent its tools from being used to spread election misinformation, said in response that the company would “keep evolving our approach as we learn more about how our tools are used,” but offered no ...

  • February 25, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    February 25, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    Feb 25, 2024 11:00 PM EDT

    Sunday on PBS News Weekend, we look at the state of health care for children of low-income families in Florida, and what a federal lawsuit could mean there and the rest of the country. Then, how vaccine hesitancy and misinformation are playing into rising rates of measles and COVID ...

  • News Wrap: Trump moves closer to GOP nomination with win in South Carolina

    News Wrap: Trump moves closer to GOP nomination with win in South Carolina

    Feb 25, 2024 10:50 PM EDT

    ... the hospital with life threatening injuries. The Times of Israel reports that no embassy staff was involved. Still to come on PBS News Weekend, how misinformation about vaccines is contributing to a rise in some preventable diseases. And a black midwife story is told by her granddaughter to her great ...

  • How vaccine hesitancy is contributing to rising rates of measles and COVID

    How vaccine hesitancy is contributing to rising rates of measles and COVID

    Feb 25, 2024 10:40 PM EDT

    ... should be welcoming these conversations. They should be ready to answer questions, and shouldn't discourage patients from having them in the first place. Vaccine misinformation expert also told me that people are going to misinformation for a number of reasons. But some of those reasons is because they weren ...