<story><title>MSN replaced journalists with AI publishing fake news about mermaids and Bigfoot</title><url>https://futurism.com/msn-is-publishing-more-fake-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>civilized</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused about what &amp;quot;the rules&amp;quot; are for fake news. Once we a week we go to the supermarket, and lining the checkout aisle we see tabloids peddling what seem to be obviously false celebrity gossip stories, but presented as news. This has been going on for as long as I can remember - so, at least 30 years.&lt;p&gt;I guess we&amp;#x27;re supposed to be alarmed here because MSN was once not a tabloid? Not that I would know, I&amp;#x27;ve never read it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DemocracyFTW2</author><text>Some people have been alarmed about this and did drag publishers to the courts over fake news parading as truth for much longer than three decades. That it has been having a constant presence for as long as you can think and doesn&amp;#x27;t do harm to you personally doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it&amp;#x27;s not a societal problem. Car exhausts haven&amp;#x27;t killed you in the past and have been around for ages, so... more car exhausts should be no problem, no? Especially when I choose to ignore them?</text></comment>
<story><title>MSN replaced journalists with AI publishing fake news about mermaids and Bigfoot</title><url>https://futurism.com/msn-is-publishing-more-fake-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>civilized</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused about what &amp;quot;the rules&amp;quot; are for fake news. Once we a week we go to the supermarket, and lining the checkout aisle we see tabloids peddling what seem to be obviously false celebrity gossip stories, but presented as news. This has been going on for as long as I can remember - so, at least 30 years.&lt;p&gt;I guess we&amp;#x27;re supposed to be alarmed here because MSN was once not a tabloid? Not that I would know, I&amp;#x27;ve never read it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>Amusingly enough if you actually &lt;i&gt;read&lt;/i&gt; the tabloids (or at least decades ago this was true) they often were just reprints of actual small-time news stories; the tabloids basically made the front cover out of &amp;quot;Bob in Bobville said what his brother done got et by a hornytoad&amp;quot;.</text></comment>