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As anti-LGBTQ rhetoric surges, a deepfake targeting Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking openly transgender US government official, spread across X.
I spoke to the pagan priestess whose image was doctored online to create the fake. She says it is "horrible."
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Not so black and white? Panda fibs fuel anti-US vibe in China
Chomping peacefully on a fruitsicle cake in her grassy Washington zoo enclosure Mei Xiang is blissfully unaware that she and a handful of other cute pandas are at the center of a ferocious misinformat...
My colleagues at AFP dug into the misinformation firestorm that has engulfed pandas in the US, on loan from China. Not mentioned here is that the campaign has also spread to Malaysia and Singapore, where emotional pleas to send them home circulate on Facebook
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When a journalist asks your field of study? We need "I'm an ecologist" or "neuroscientist" etc.
So "I'm in the ecology department but I really study host parasite interactions on evolutionary timescales..."
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