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Political Strategists Are Hacking AI To Influence Voters

This is a web version of The Lever’s daily email newsletter. Thinking of consulting an AI chatbot to research candidates and issues before Election Day? Think again.  Political influence campaigns are turning artificial intelligence chatbots into political …

The problem with the internet and AI

Noted media watchdog Steven Brill of NewsGuard discusses the perils of platforms and services that pay no heed to the accuracy of what they produce. In the absence of guardrails, he said, inflammatory content sells. Plus, how local news outlets rate for …

NewsGuard’s Midterms Misinformation Briefing

Published on Oct. 26, 2026   From Russian influence campaigns pushing bogus claims about candidates, to new secretly partisan-funded “pink slime” sites masquerading as legitimate news outlets, NewsGuard analysts have been separating truth from fiction …

A Mystery ‘News’ Site Is Helping Vivek Ramaswamy Push His Nasty Attack Ad

Source: Michael Swensen / GettyRepublican slime bag and relentless troll Vivek Ramaswamy, who also happens to be running for governor of Ohio, has become the center of unethical ad campaigns after he released an attack featuring his Democratic …

Pink Slime Websites Infect AI Chatbots Ahead of U.S. Midterms

Mystery Ohio news site boosting Ramaswamy's Amy Acton ad tied to California GOP nonprofit

As Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy came under fire for releasing an attack ad featuring his Democratic competitor’s estranged mother, a mysterious news site was running a Facebook ad boosting the controversial video. The Buckeye …

Pink Slime journalism sticks to public universities

Over the past year, a publication known as the High Country Times has sent an array of Freedom of Information Act requests to App State, requesting compensation data, syllabi records and information regarding the board of trustees.  It is one of thousands …

'Pink slime' sites: 'Pseudo-journalism': Partisan 'news' sites target US midterms

It bills itself as an "independent journalism" outfit, but the innocuous-sounding North Carolinian is among hundreds of partisan sites that researchers say masquerade as local news outlets in battleground states ahead of the US midterm elections …

AI is embedded in your election experience. So are its dangers.

And despite pressuring tech companies for details about testing, safeguards and the extent of voter interactions with AI, lawmakers and watchdog groups have said that the companies are not sharing enough information about those efforts. “We’re in uncharted …

We Owe Ghostbusters II an Apology

Mike It has never not been strange to me that, to this very day, in some critics’ circles, while wearing fedoras and way too tight for their body type pants, they consider Ghostbusters II a “bad movie”. Was it all the fighting and struggles behind the …

Rodent and insect activity at school found during Berks food safety inspections

Berks County is divided into three jurisdictions: Reading, Muhlenberg Township and the rest of the county. Reading and Muhlenberg Township have their own food safety inspectors and the rest of the county is inspected by Pennsylvania Department of …

Conversation with Latin American Storyteller Fernanda Trias

She primarily writes novels and short stories. She is also a translator. Her story collection ‘Miembro Fantasma’ has just been published, which means ‘Phantom Limb’ (a limb that remains active or appears alive even after all its parts have been amputated …

Kenyan woman in US shattered after husband loses nursing job: "Yeye ndiye breadwinner"

Miss Riungu, a Kenyan content creator based in the US, shared that her husband lost his nursing job after a two-month suspension ended in termination The couple scrambled to update her hubby's CV and drove 30 minutes to visit an HR contact as Miss …

Experts warn of ‘pink slime’ tactics from new Georgia news websites

In late July, a new website popped online carrying local news stories from Georgia. There was an article about a disgraced former Atlanta City Council member, another about President Donald Trump’s visit to Cobb County, and one about Georgia coach Kirby …

Portland Press Herald, Which Publishes Paid Stories For Maine’s Democrat Governor, Complaining About ‘Pink Slime?’

The state’s largest daily, which Gov. Janet Mills has paid to produce rose-colored “news,” is upset with websites publishing “politicized” content. Hard to believe if it weren’t in print. In a piece Wednesday, the Press Herald catalogued online …

Inside the rise of Maine’s partisan ‘pink slime’ news pages

Anonymous no more: Meet the 36-year-old Boston software engineer behind the viral Mass Daily News website

The Boston Globe Simon Pacheco, a Boston software engineer, runs the website Mass Daily News. Ryan HuddleGlobe staff, Handout, Adobe stock By Aidan Ryan, The Boston Globe October 19, 2026 | 5:00 AM 7 minutes to read Share Close Send this article to your …

A Handbook for a Bad Dystopia: Everything That Is Wrong with “The Memory Police”

26 For months, I’d been meaning to read “The Memory Police”, a novel by Yoko Ogawa, and after finally getting my hands on a copy, I can say that the ice cream was not great. In fact, it was the most disappointing ice cream I’ve had in a long time. The …

Russian propaganda website hit with record ‘pink slime’ payout at High Court

Thursday 06 August 2026 4:45 am  |  Updated:  Wednesday 05 August 2026 5:49 pm An Uzbek businessman won a default judgment at the High Court An Uzbek businessman has been awarded £105,000 in damages and £117,663.38 in legal costs after winning a defamation …