AI news poachers are littering the internet. We hunt them down | Media Watch

0:00 - AI unmasked

Four AI-run news sites, including League Initiative and F1 Initiative, are taken down after we identify the host of the web server.

4:29 - Furry fury

Adelaide Advertiser’s unsourced, front-page story about a police officer who ‘identifies as a furry’ sends Sky News over the edge.

7:00 - AFR v Stokes

The Financial Review to stop selling its print edition in WA after Seven West Media doubles the cost to print the newspaper.

10:11 - Sunrise vax scare

Sunrise teases a ‘serious new side effect’ of the AstraZeneca vaccine only to be proven wrong by a GP live on air

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