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#Trump frequently employs use of the term “#invasion”, especially when discussing #immigrants who illegally cross at the border. He used it to justify the use of the #AlienEnemiesAct to rapidly deport Venezuelan immigrants by saying there was an “invasion”by the gang Tren de Aragua. But there has been no “invasion” & #LosAngeles is place embraces rich & various immigrant cultures.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #immigration #NationalGuard #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #RightToProtest #authoritarianism

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@markcarrigan.net It's an impressive and creepy example for a problem we could also get in popular non-fiction books as well as in journalism.
Therefore, some authors' associations demand a rule that authors indicate in their book whether and how they have used LLMs. But authors can lie.

Usually, you have to #factCheck every quote/stuff found in the internet: there were fakes long before #AI.

#Trump admin deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent & drug crimes & a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.”

Cuz, obviously they can’t have people learning the #truth!

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #propaganda #censorship #gaslighting #facts #data #immigration #law

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National Institute of JusticeAdvancing Justice Through ScienceThe National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science.

Fact check: How credible is Russian fact-check site GFCN?

Russia's new "Global Fact-Checking Network" (GFCN) claims to fight fake news — but experts criticise it as propaganda in fact-checking clothes.

Who's behind GFCN and why does it not meet global fact-checking standards?

mediafaro.org/article/20250604

Stock photo: fingers are seen typing on a keyboard illuminated in red. | Image: Nicolas Armer/dpa/picture alliance
DW · Fact check: How credible is Russian fact-check site GFCN?By DW

How the Liverpool car-ramming sparked the spread of misinformation.

False claims about the identity of the driver swirled online despite Merseyside Police swiftly disclosing the suspect's ethnicity and nationality in a bid to stamp out speculation.

mediafaro.org/article/20250602

A red scarf on the street after the attack. | Copyright AP Photo
Euronews · How the Liverpool car-ramming sparked the spread of misinformation.By Mared Gwyn Jones
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ProPublica and the Tribune, along with Venezuelan media outlets Cazadores de Fake News (Fake News Hunters) & Alianza Rebelde Investiga (Rebel Alliance Investigates), also obtained lists of alleged gang members that are kept by #Venezuelan law enforcement officials & the international law enforcement agency #Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. NONE of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists.

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But the govt’s own data, which was obtained by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune & a team of journalists from #Venezuela, showed that ofcls knew that only 32 of the deportees had been convicted of #US crimes & that most were nonviolent offenses, such as retail theft or traffic violations.

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When multiple news organizations disputed those assertions w/reporting that showed many of the deportees did not have #criminal records, the #Trump admin doubled down. It said that its assessment of the deportees was based on a thorough vetting process that included looking at crimes committed both inside & outside the US.

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The #Trump admin knew that the vast majority of the 238 #Venezuelan #immigrants it sent to a maximum-security prison in #ElSalvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the US before it labeled them #terrorists & #deported them, acc/to #DHS data that has not been previously reported.
Trump & his aides have branded the #Venezuelans as “rapists,” “savages,” “monsters” & “the worst of the worst.”

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@werd.io Now lets forget all our degrees or non-degrees and make a test: how many images do we recognise correctly? real-or-fake-the-ai-game.onren

Here's a scientific study about the ability to recognise fake images of people (only 61% succeeded): sciencedaily.com/releases/2024

real-or-fake-the-ai-game.onrender.comReal or Fake: The AI Game