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Wikipedia Editors Discuss Blacklisting CBS News After Bari Weiss Named Editor-In-Chief

Following reports of former New York Times editor and the Free Press founder Bari Weiss being appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News, editors on Wikipedia began negatively slanting her page and those of CBS and the Free Press. This includes attempting to label Weiss as right-wing and slanted edits about a CBS settlement with President Donald Trump. Some suggested blacklisting CBS as a source in the future.

Bari Weiss is in charge of CBS News

Chinese Crooks Have Made $1 Billion from Scam Text Messages in the U.S.

Criminal organizations operating out of China have made more than $1 billion over the last three years by bombarding Americans with scam text messages, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Typical scam messages warn unsuspecting Americans of toll violations or postal fees, eventually asking for a credit card number.

Many chinese hackers in troll farm. Privacy and security concept.

Marsha Blackburn: Federal AI Regulation Is Coming Soon

Despite opposition from big tech companies, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asserts that federal regulation of AI is on the horizon. Blackburn explains, “We have to have the states standing in the gap until such time that Congress will say no to the big tech platforms.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn takes on AI

Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger Plans Group Letter Protesting Site’s Smears

In an interview with Jan Jekielek of the Epoch Times that aired this week, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger announced plans to circulate a letter of protest among prominent individuals and groups harmed by Wikipedia before sending to the Wikimedia Foundation that owns the site. He further suggested such a letter could be sent to U.S. government officials and other governments to press for reform at the online encyclopedia.

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger targets bias

Wikipedia Owner Rejects Board Candidates Sparking Community Outcry Blaming Israel, Republicans

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, last week rejected two Board of Trustees candidates during its community elections allowing regular contributors to directly choose board representatives. Its purported rationale included one candidate’s involvement with a major community newsletter and another’s social media comments attacking Israel. The rejections provoked community outrage, including from former board members and staff. Petitions and statements opposing the decision, some blaming Israeli and United States government pressure, generally pledged to boycott the election.

Pro-Palestinian protesters

Elon’s Flop: Tesla Cybertruck Sales Plummet 62%

Tesla has suffered a massive drop in Cybertruck sales, with Elon Musk’s EV giant struggling to find a market for its pickup truck. Musk once boasted that the company could produce 250,000 Cybertrucks a year, but it sold only 5,400 trucks last quarter.

Elon Musk unhappy with Tesla Cybertruck sales

Anthropic Study: AI Models Are Highly Vulnerable to ‘Poisoning’ Attacks

A recent study by Anthropic AI, in collaboration with several academic institutions, has uncovered a startling vulnerability in AI language models, showing that it takes a mere 250 malicious documents to completely disrupt their output. Purposefully feeding malicious data into AI models is ominously referred to as a “poisoning attack.”

bottle of poison

Wikipedia Editors Pushed ‘Far-right’ Smear Against Charlie Kirk Following Assassination

Following the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk one month ago today, Wikipedia editors responded by smearing Kirk across multiple articles even as tens of millions viewed the pages and high-level site leaders monitored them. Such smears included editors labeling Kirk far-right both openly and surreptitiously, in one case prompting Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to call Wikipedia “wicked” on social media. Editors also advocated labeling Trumpism as fascism in response.

Charlie Kirk shortly before his assassination