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If you scroll through the news today, it’s easy to feel like every health headline is expertly designed to scare you. Whether it’s because journalists are playing a game of telephone by lazily regurgitating exaggerated press releases without consulting the actual studies they report on, deliberately oversimplifying or distorting findings, or even politicizing the issues—we’re very often not getting an …

Asia In Brief Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for allegedly misleading users of its Microsoft 365 bundle. The consumer protection agency alleges that Redmond’s advice to users of Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans with auto-renewal was that “to maintain their subscription they must accept the integration of Copilot and pay higher prices …

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. After the government of the Canadian province of Ontario released an anti-tariff ad taking aim at U.S. trade policy, President Donald Trump said the United States was cutting off trade negotiations with its northern neighbor. READ MORE: Trump threatens Canada with 10% tariff increase for not pulling down critical ad sooner In an Oct. 23 Truth …

Explaining the G.O.P.’s Misleading Talking Point on the Looming Shutdown  The New York Times Who would get blamed for a shutdown?  CNN More Voters Say They’d Blame Republicans Than Democrats for a Shutdown  Morning Consult Pro Playbook PM: Republicans and Democrats make their bets on a shutdown  Politico Republicans all but guaranteed a shutdown this fall when they sided with Trump  MSNBC News Source link

E-commerce giant Amazon.com (AMZN) is facing a civil trial over allegations that it misled customers into signing up for and retaining its Prime subscription service. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) claims that Amazon has duped nearly 40 million subscribers and violated consumer-protection laws. The lawsuit seeks civil penalties, customer refunds, and a court order barring Amazon from using subscription practices …

A flood of false and misleading claims filled social media in the two days it took officials to arrest and publicly identify 22-year-old Tyler Robinson as the suspect in Wednesday’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. The reaction followed a well-worn pattern of misinformation and conspiracy theories that often come after breaking news events when facts …

Amid a fierce debate about the environmental toll of artificial intelligence, Google released a new study that says its Gemini AI assistant only uses a minimal amount of water and energy for each text prompt. But experts say that the tech giant’s claims are misleading. Google estimates that a median Gemini text prompt uses up about five drops of water, …

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools,” according to a press release issued Monday. “In today’s digital age, we must continue to fight to protect Texas kids from deceptive and exploitative technology,” Paxton is quoted as …

Last year I attended a panel on generative AI in education. In a memorable moment, one presenter asked: “What’s the big deal? Generative AI is like a calculator. It’s just a tool.” The analogy is an increasingly common one. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman himself has referred to ChatGPT as “a calculator for words” and compared comments on the new …

Sky Daily, the wife of the late Hulk Hogan, cautioned that there is false information being spread after the wrestling icon was laid to rest in a private funeral on Tuesday in Clearwater, Fla. Hogan, who died on July 24 from a heart attack at the age of 71, and his family, including ex-wife Linda and their two kids, Brooke …