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☆ Top news app in U.S. has Chinese origins and ‘writes fiction’ with the help of AI
  + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +7 min
Billing itself as "the go-to source for all things local," Newsbreak says it has over 50 million monthly users. "It seems this 'news' outlet's AI writes fiction they have no problem publishing to readers." Billing itself as "the go-to source for all things local," Newsbreak says it has over 50 million monthly users. Two local community programs assisting disadvantaged people told Reuters they were impacted by erroneous stories produced by NewsBreak's AI. The company launched in the U.S. in 2015 as a subsidiary of Yidian, a Chinese news aggregation app.
Persons: Newsbreak, NewsBreak, Harvest912, Jeff Zheng, Zheng, Norm Pearlstine, Pearlstine, paywalls Organizations: Facebook, Reuters, Fox, AP, CNN, NewsBreak, NewsBreak's, Food, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, LA Times Locations: China, United States, Bridgeton , New Jersey, Small Towns, Mountain View , California, Beijing, Shanghai, America, U.S, Colorado, Erie , Pennsylvania, Yidian, NewsBreak
☆ Fact Check-Article on Aldi horsemeat scandal is about a decade-old incident
  + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
An article reporting as if new a decade-old supermarket scandal involving horse meat and German-owned discounter Aldi is confusing people online. “Aldi was guily (sic) ten years ago of selling horse meat in place of their advertised beef. A spokesperson for the supermarket group told Reuters that the social media posts and Newsbreak article were likely based on the 2013 incident. Search engine results produced no other news articles about a 2023 horse meat scandal involving Aldi (archive.md/m2m7X). Aldi has not confirmed that its products are subject to a new horse meat scandal.
Persons: Aldi, ”, Newsbreak, Read Organizations: Aldi, Facebook, Reuters Locations: U.S
☆ In this economy, the winner is weather apps
  + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Sirena Bergman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Weather apps are tech's sleeper hit. The Guardian is rather boldly reporting that weather apps have become an "addiction." At best, weather apps "perform about as well as meteorologists, but some of the most popular ones fare much worse," Charlie Warzel recently wrote in The Atlantic. Still, there's a weather app for everyone: Sassy weather apps, irreverent weather apps, fashion-conscious weather apps, practical weather apps, and aesthetic weather apps. A weather app can use US government data (and many do, The Guardian reported) which is free to use for any purpose, according to the National Weather Service's website.
Persons: haven't, who's, it's, Eric Floehr, Charlie Warzel Organizations: Morning, Guardian, View Research Locations: monetization
☆ ‘Verified’ Twitter accounts share fake image of ‘explosion’ near Pentagon, causing confusion
  + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Donie O'Sullivan Jon Passantino | Donie O'Sullivan | Jon Passantino | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —A fake image purporting to show an explosion near the Pentagon was shared by multiple verified Twitter accounts on Monday, causing confusion and leading to a brief dip in the stock market. “Large explosion near the Pentagon complex in Washington DC. Under owner Elon Musk, Twitter has allowed anyone to obtain a verified account in exchange for a monthly payment. A fake image purporting to show an explosion near the Pentagon was shared by multiple verified Twitter accounts on Monday, causing confusion and leading to a brief dip in the stock market. AI-Generated Fake Image/Twitter“Republic had aired news of a possible explosion near the Pentagon citing a post & picture tweeted by RT,” the outlet later posted on its Twitter account.
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