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The staff of an "independent, locally owned" South Florida news site was entirely faked with AI, a team real journalists revealed.

A joint investigation by The Florida Trib and the KCRW podcast Question Everything found that a so-called “independent, locally owned digital news publication” dubbed the South Florida Standard was in reality an AI-generated Potemkin village staffed entirely by fake writers.

The writers had AI-generated profile pictures and made-up biographies to match their beats — a practice that’s become a hallmark sign of AI-fabricated “journalists” — and churned out an extraordinary amount of content, much of which turned out to be plagiarized from other outlets.

With the help of University of South Florida journalism professor Casey Frechette, the real reporters traced the South Florida Standard to more news sites in South Carolina and California — titled the Charleston Sentinel and the San Francisco Download, respectively — and, finally, connected them all to a Philadelphia-based guy named Drew Chapin, who runs an image management firm called The Discoverability Company.

On the Discoverability Company’s website, Chapin describes himself as a “digital fixer for people and businesses who need the internet to tell a better story about them.”

In other words: according to this unnamed entity, they were juicing up a locally-targeted web domain with AI content in order to later flip it.

But after some dogged reporting by the investigative team, Chapin finally admitted to journalists that he was indeed the owner of the South Florida Standard — and 17 similar AI-powered properties in total. According to him, all it took was a $10 domain name and some limited AI tooling, and he could spit out a fake news site in under 20 minutes. Bleak.

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According to a new investigation by Mother Jones, OpenAI's ChatGPT still easily gives advice on how to plan mass shootings.

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Several families are suing OpenAI for its failures in the lead-up to the Tumbler Ridge massacre. Dozens of plaintiffs are expected.

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Billionaire Trump donor and tariff advocate is moving his Ohio manufacturing plant to China: report

Brendan Rascius

Mon, 16 February 2026 at 2:22 pm GMT-7

Cue the sad trombone: Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson — a major Trump donor and advocate of tariffs — is shuttering his Ohio brass instrument plant and offshoring work to China, according to a new report.

Paulson’s company Conn Selmer, the nation's top maker of orchestral and brass instruments, notified employees it will shift most of its East Lake plant operations to Asia by July, triggering about 150 layoffs, The Guardian reported.

Employees were informed of the decision last month, when they expected to negotiate a new union contract, according to United Auto Workers Local 2359, which represents the workers.

The employees said the company unveiled a new plant in China in 2025, and that work has slowly shifted to that location. However, workers in Ohio had previously been told their jobs were not in jeopardy.

Workers there expressed deep dissatisfaction with the decision, with one saying, “It really pisses me off,” while another said they felt “betrayed.”

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Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says

We should remember the poc who died at the hands of ICE but we must also remember the brave people like Marimar Martinez who survived 5 gunshot wounds from ICE agents and is going to make sure they pay for it.

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I don't think any of us can truly comprehend how fucking brave she is for doing this.