The Daily Populous Thursday September 5th, 2024 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by LigmaDragonDeez

There is no KBSF-TV in San Francisco, and, according to a BBC Verify investigation, the original website that published the story was registered less than two weeks ago. The photograph attached to the article, which supposedly depicted the crash itself, was actually snapped in Guam in 2018. And the video of Brown—whom the article and video misname several times—also appears to be a deepfake. The x-ray images of Brown’s spine, allegedly taken after the accident, can be traced back to medical journals that have no relation to the supposed crash.

Strangely, it’s not the only recent instance of a wildly fabricated story taking root against Democrats. Behind the operation is John Mark Dougan, a former Florida cop who has since relocated to Moscow to work full-time inventing fake news sites in an effort to spread misinformation among American voters ahead of the 2024 election, according to the BBC.

Another site launched by Dougan, The Houston Post, accused the FBI of illegally wiretapping Donald Trump’s Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago. Other sites bore equally American names, including the Chicago Crier, Boston Times, and DC Weekly. According to the BBC, most of the stories posted on the sites were not necessarily fake, but rather poor copies of actual news items that had been reworked by A.I. engines. Some of the articles still sported the user’s instructions to the bot at the bottom of the text, at the time of the BBC’s investigation: “Please rewrite this article taking a conservative stance.”

reddevils on September 5th, 2024 at 00:10 UTC »

Is not that he ordered donuts like a normal person, it’s that the guy looked like he wanted to talk to him. These could be manufactured of course and set up in advance to show him in a good light. But it also highlights how stupid they are to go in cold like that with a guy who has the charisma of a jar of mayonnaise talking to people who clearly were not interested. And then the dumbfucks released it.

ANTHROPOMORPHISATION on September 4th, 2024 at 23:49 UTC »

He reminds me of my best friends dad. I didn’t have a dad. He scooped me up and made me his. I miss that wonderful man.

sublimesting on September 4th, 2024 at 22:31 UTC »

I’m Tim Daytona, perfectly normal human person buying normal human donuts.