Business Today: Who is Emily Hart? How an Indian medical student fooled ‘dumb’ MAGA fans with AI. “Meet “Emily Hart.” To her millions of fans, she was a gun-loving, beer-drinking nurse who looked like Jennifer Lawrence and loved ‘Christ is King.’ But in reality, she was the creation of ‘Sam,’ a 22-year-old orthopaedic surgeon in training in India. According to a Wired report, Sam (name changed) […]

New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]

Reuters: China moves to regulate digital humans, bans addictive services for children. “The Cyberspace ‌Administration of China’s proposed rules would require prominent ‘digital human’ labels on all virtual human content and ​prohibit digital humans from providing ‘virtual intimate relationships’ to those under 18, according to rules published for public comment until May 6.”

Washington Post: Thousands have swooned over this MAGA dream girl. She’s made with AI. This link goes to a MSN-syndicated version of the article (no paywall). “[Jessica] Foster’s viral takeoff highlights an increasingly prevalent strategy for winning online attention. A slew of right-wing accounts, peddling patriotism mixed with soft-core pornography, use fake women and convincing imagery […]

Techdirt: 37,000 Fake AI Comments Mysteriously Oppose Washington State’s Effort To Tax The Rich. ” Washington State has been exploring the RADICAL SOCIALIST ANTIFA EXTREMIST idea of having the state’s rich actually pay their taxes. That’s not been received particularly well by the extraction class, which has been making empty promises about leaving the state. Recently the state opened up […]

Mashable: Scammers are increasingly posing as loved ones, survey suggests. “Phone number verification tool ClarityCheck just conducted a survey of around 1,900 adults in the U.S., UK, and European Union, and found that 64 percent of respondents have encountered a suspicious message or call that seemed to come from someone they knew.”

PressGazette: Faces of fakery: More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media. “Out of a sample of 250 expert-quoting articles published in The Sun, Daily Express, Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Star in 2025 and late 2024, 25 experts do not exist, are impossible to track down/verify online or were not named in the first place.”

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Canary Media: Are faked public comments about to tank an Ohio solar farm?. “Ohio is poised to block a major solar farm because of local pushback — even though a substantial number of public comments opposing the installation appear to be fabricated.”

The Guardian: Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media. “Political leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned.”