Why Elon Musk is so obsessed with this violently xenophobic Armie Hammer movie ^66.3%

Vox - By Constance Grady - 6/30/2026, 9:20 PM

Biased Writer Voice 47.8% - Negativity Bias 36.7% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 22.2%

A violent anti-migrant propaganda movie titled Citizen Vigilante was a smash hit on Apple and Amazon over the weekend, and the online right is celebrating. The film, directed by a man frequently described as the world’s worst director and starring disgraced actor Armie Hammer, blew up after Elon Musk began promoting it on X. It currently... more

Europe Discovers the Land of Plenty ^73.7%

Washington Free Beacon - By Mike Watson - 6/27/2026, 9:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 45.7% - Hasty Generalization 26.7% - Negativity Bias 20.2%

The Great American State Fair opened on the National Mall this week, but the heartland is already the focus of international attention. As the United States, Canada, and Mexico host the World Cup, soccer fans from around the world are crisscrossing this country, gawking at the sheer abundance they find in our stores and restaurants.... more

Israel’s Arabic-language military spokesperson has gone viral, inspiring fear and fascination ^33.1%

AP News - By Melanie Lidman - 6/9/2026, 5:05 AM

Negativity Bias 32.6% - Anecdotal 24.6% - Availability Heuristic 23.4%

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — For over 2 1/2 years, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza and Lebanon have lived in dread of Avichay Adraee’s next social media post. Israel’s Arabic-language military spokesman has been the animated face of its campaigns and the main source of warnings ahead of strikes and major offensives. That has made him... more

The Pentagon Is Running an AI Propaganda Mill Targeting Latin America ^40.6%

The Intercept - By Sam Biddle - 6/2/2026, 4:20 PM

Negativity Bias 40.4% - Biased Writer Voice 34.4% - Hasty Generalization 20.5%

The United States is feeding Pentagon propaganda to internet users in Latin American countries using a new AI-laden content mill, an investigation by The Intercept has found. La Tilde quietly began development early this year and appears to still be a work in progress, pitching itself as a modern media brand for Latin American audiences... more

Banned AI-generated Iran propaganda videos using Legos have gone viral ^0%

MS NOW - By Ken Dilanian, Julia Jester - 4/16/2026, 7:21 PM

Negativity Bias 31.2% - Appeal to Authority 22.9% - Pessimism Bias 21.3%

Americans love the internet, rap music and Legos. And yet somehow, Iran is exploiting those things in what experts say is a massively successful wartime propaganda operation aimed at denigrating the United States and its president. A series of artificial intelligence-fueled animated videos produced by an overseas firm has spread across... more

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death ^90.6%

The Guardian - By Jan-Werner Müller - 3/23/2026, 10:00 AM

It appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them. Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes. Markwayne Mullin is apparently still proud of challenging a witness to a fistfight at a Senate hearing; he also refuses to apologize for... more