ISSUE 23.44 • 2026-11-02 PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston Although we are already deluged with information from the Internet, our content-overload problem is being made worse by “technology” newsletters and websites that knowingly publish outrageous fictions. I’m not referring to the usual breathless prose by tech writers about some new gizmo that the authors are […]

PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston Realistic-looking videos that are the most-often recommended by the popular TikTok social media app regarding health care contain no real people 40 percent of the time, a new analysis of the site’s mini-movies has found. Many of TikTok’s top-rated videos on every topic are AI-generated but look exactly like actual […]