Is Massively Faulty AI Measuring Your Medical Claims?
Journalists ignore fact checking while discussing distrust in media
It’s all too typical. News agencies discuss the growing distrust of the media, and, in the process, provide powerful reminders of why people have good reason to distrust the media.
In the new episode of They Stand Corrected, how a claim about AI and health care serves as case in point.
The same goes for a claim about so-called “journalists” killed in Gaza.
This episode, like so many others, was inspired by your questions and comments. I explain:
Looking into all this led me to a paradigm shift. There's a whole different way to look at the media's failures at this moment. It requires removing the political lens altogether. When I picture this, it's almost surgical. It's like we have to get that off of our eyes so we can see straight. We as Americans keep being presented with a false choice that we somehow have to subscribe to one of these two options. But what you all keep showing me through your fantastic feedback is that what so many of us want and need from the news media is the same thing.
Along the way, I mention this Snopes piece on the UnitedHealthcare claims, and independent journalist David Collier’s deep dive into “journalists” killed in Gaza, who were actually propagandists for Hamas. (Here’s some coverage.)
Also, a new study on food aid sent in to Gaza, even as Israeli hostages (including U.S. citizens) were being starved and abused. Plus, how news agencies including CNN misrepresented a controversial Israeli official’s remarks.
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