“Meta won’t say if politicians can post AI-made fakes without warnings”
It seems … suboptimal … for platforms to be building terms-of-service policy ad hoc and mid-campaign for AI images and video in a political context.
Category Archives: chicanery
“With more costs to come, Shasta County will spend $950,000 on new voting system”
The $950,000 is apparently for “the equipment needed to hand-count ballots”; the final bill will also include personnel costs estimated at more than $1.6 million.
How Fox Chased Its Audience Down the Rabbit Hole
Jim Rutenberg in the NYT Magazine with a deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep dive on how we got to the Dominion defamation lawsuit.
House Judiciary Subpoenas Former Manhattan Special Assistant DA Mark Pomerantz
Here’s the cover letter attached to the subpoena, explaining House Judiciary’s rationale for conducting a deposition. Pomerantz worked on the Trump investigation for the Manhattan DA’s office, resigned in protest when Trump was not charged earlier in DA Bragg’s tenure,… Continue reading
More takes (collected) on the Trump indictment
Eric Columbus has started a thread accumulating several beyond those out in the immediate aftermath of the arraignment.
“Attacks on Dominion Voting Persist Despite High-Profile Lawsuits”
It may take an enforced monetary judgment to actually stop the nonsense.
“Trump-fueled election deniers still ‘spread lies,’ experts warn. What does that mean for 2024?”
USA Today discusses the half-life of information disorder.
“Cochise supervisors ordered to pay legal fees in election certification suit”
The supervisors who initially refused to certify the canvass for the 2022 midterms are on the hook for fees for the subsequent suit compelling certification. Here’s the order.
The court rejected the argument that “taxpayers might bear the burden… Continue reading
Interview with Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi
I missed this interview on Monday, talking at least in part about the impact of cheap speech on democracy (and about the Mackey conviction).
“Rupert Murdoch Can Be Forced to Testify in Defamation Trial, Judge Says”
In addition to Fox’s star on-screen hosts, the judge in the Dominion defamation case has said that “if Dominion issued a subpoena for Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corp, and other corporate officers, he ‘would not quash it’ and… Continue reading
About that draft 2020 executive order to seize voting machines
Spotted heading into the special counsel’s grand jury on April 4: Ken Cuccinelli — named in November 2019 as the official acting as the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, though both GAO and several courts determined that the appointment was… Continue reading
More activity in the federal classified information case
Several former Secret Service agents are apparently scheduled to testify on Friday in the federal classified documents probe.
“Trump’s legal drama could soon continue in Georgia”
A deep dive into the Fulton County probe into election interference.
Still more defamation actions
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene notes Devin Nunes’s latest, about an allegation that federal investigators were looking into Trump Media for potential money laundering activities.