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Google reimagines deceptive photo editing

The Pixel 9's Reimagine feature is a disinfo delight. Plus: Facebook's AI single parent cops drive a content farm and Telegram's channels for undresser apps reach hundreds of thousands

Welcome to Instagram's blended unreality

Instagram's army of AI thirst traps represent a new blended unreality. Plus: Wikipedia is a battlefield in Brazil, and the Harris campaign co-opts media credibility

Perplexity AI is stumped by hoaxes from outside the US, Apple and Play allow a faceswapping porn app that targets celebrities, and misinformation adds a communal twist to violent events in Bangladesh

Google is running ads for undresser services

Plus: The world is seeking fact checks about Imane Khelif, and AI blends academic results with "some people's" beliefs about sleep training.

Generative AI is brat | Spying the fact-checkers | DEFIANCE clears the Senate

Three books about digital deception

The Death of Truth | Invisible Rulers | The Lie Detectives

Negated Notes | Dissing RT | Unlabeled

Psych! An AI wrote this

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