“The Iffy Index of Unreliable Sourcescompiles credibility ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check. MBFC has substantial experience, comprehensiveness, transparency, accountability, and currency in reviewing news sites (details in methodology). Peer-reviewed studies, health/media guides, and mis/disinfo tools all use the Iffy Index. Political leaning is not a factor. The Iffy Index includes only sites that MBFC rates as Low Credibility rating and categorizes as either Conspiracy/Pseudoscience (CP) or Questionable Source/Fake News (FN), listed in the MBFC Cat column of the table below.
A credibility rating of Low means the site regularly fails fact checks by IFCN-verified fact checkers. Other columns are the site’s: MBFC Factual rating (linked to the site’s MBFC page), Alexa Traffic Rank, Misinfo.mecredibility (low: -1.0 to high: 1.0), Wikipedia article (if one exists), and the news outlet’s name linked to fact-checks of its articles. (Version 2.0.1, 2023-01-30 | Changelog | Methodology | Corrections)”
Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars Quanta
Landmark vaccine for honeybees Bangkok Post
Lula Can’t Tell Vladimir from Volodymyr WaPo. The most PMC headline ever…
ChatGPT May Be the Fastest Growing App in History Gizmodo.
Cathie Wood says AI will power the ‘most massive productivity increase in history’ Yahoo Finance. Given that increased bullshit = increased GNP, certainly.
Microsoft injects AI into Teams so no one will ever forget what the meeting decided The Register. “[A]utomatically generated meeting notes.” I love it. I wonder how long before somebody figures out how to game the minutes….
AI Goes to K Street: ChatGPT Turns LobbyistIEEE Spectrum. Is there anything this wonder engine cannot do
THE UNEXPECTED NEAR-PEER WAR: Ukraine’s Nation In Arms.
Eleven months of combat and suffering demonstrate that on the battlefield Ukraine can defeat a Russian invasion then launch limited but sustained (and thus effective) local counter-offensives.
As Month 12 begins, satellites photograph trenches and shell holes, wire services report artillery slugfests and cable TV experts speculate on new attacks when the Russians get more soldiers, when the Ukrainians deploy Leopard 2 tanks.
In other words, the war has become a bloody stalemate between two armies that refuse to lose.