Just yesterday, I shared my thoughts about the danger to "truth" and "reality" caused by the ubiquitous and growing use of plausible misinformation and AI-generated images and videos almost impossible to detect as bogus. And now today the New York Times does a deep-dive into the myriad ways Trump is using these tools nonstop to create a world in which whatever he says carries inordinate apparent authority. I urge you to read this amazing account from the NYT below to see ju

“Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.” If you were a kid back when I was a kid—the thirties, forties, fifties—you heard that advice often from your elders.  They knew that life was routinely corrupted by those with an axe to grind and the means to spread misinformation.  It’s been going on since mass media emerged.  Newspapers were respected and persuasive just by dint of being published, even when the publishers were trying to start a war or ruin a p