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  • People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk

    09/13/2025 1:09:38 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 158 replies
    NPR ^ | September 13, 2025 | By Huo Jingnan , Jude Joffe-Block , Audrey Nguyen
    Over thirty people across the country have been fired, put on leave, investigated or faced calls to resign because of social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk or expressing schadenfreude about the conservative influencer's assassination earlier this week, according to an analysis by NPR. And more may be to come:
  • Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler'

    07/09/2025 12:30:30 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 15 replies
    NPR ^ | July 9, 20253:12 PM ET | Lisa Hagen , Huo Jingnan , Audrey Nguyen
    "We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions." Indeed, the update did not go unnoticed. By Tuesday, Grok was calling itself "MechaHitler." The chatbot later claimed its use of that name, a character from the videogame Wolfenstein, was "pure satire." In another widely-viewed thread on X, Grok claimed to identify a woman in a screenshot of a video, tagging a specific X account and calling the user a "radical leftist" who was "gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white...
  • To combat misinformation, start with connection, not correction

    09/30/2024 6:00:16 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 15 replies
    npr ^ | 09/30/2024 | Audrey Nguyen
    Misinformation and disinformation can be a threat to our democracy. [Almost stopped reading right there] It can divide communities. It can make it harder for people to make informed choices — at the ballot box, at the grocery store and at the doctor's office. No one is immune. “We just don't have the time, the cognitive resources or even the motivation to literally fact-check every piece of information that comes our way,” says Briony Swire-Thompson, director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab at Northeastern University. How to avoid sharing false or misleading news about the election People trust information more...