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Major investigations and mainstream reporting reject the claim that “9/11 was an inside job,” concluding the attacks were carried out by al‑Qaeda operatives; government analyses such as NIST and debun...
Controversies and persistent myths about Anthony Fauci’s role in early AIDS research are well-documented in recent reporting and commentary: critics and conspiracy authors have accused him of promotin...
Bill Gates has publicly urged wealthy countries to shift toward “synthetic” or plant‑based and lab‑grown meat as a climate strategy and has invested in alternative‑protein companies such as Beyond Mea...
Available reporting shows countries vary depending on the metric: the Netherlands and the United States repeatedly appear as high-volume hosts of CSAM when measured by hosting location or per‑capita h...
Bill Gates has invested—either personally or via vehicles he’s linked to—in multiple companies developing plant-based and cell-cultured meat, including early stakes in Memphis Meats (now Upside Foods)...
Polling and third‑party lists consistently place wire services and public broadcasters—especially The Associated Press and Reuters—and outlets like BBC and PBS among the most factual and least biased;...
Commercial -detection products from and combine traditional hash‑matching against known illicit files with machine‑learning classifiers that operate on image embeddings and text classifiers to surface...
Multiple U.S. and international government agencies have studied geoengineering concepts (solar radiation modification, marine cloud brightening, ocean alkalinity) through reports, modeling and limite...
Chinese authorities combine legal mandates, corporate cooperation and advanced technologies — including the “Great Firewall” (blocking sites and filtering keywords), pervasive CCTV and facial/voice re...
Two U.S. restaurants—Bar Crenn in San Francisco and China Chilcano in Washington, D.C.—are the documented, early public venues to place cell‑cultivated chicken on tasting‑menu plates after U.S. regula...
Social platforms have responded with a mix of rule-making, ad removals, automated detection and public-facing statements, but investigators and researchers say those measures have often lagged behind ...
AI models exhibit measurable, systematic biases across tasks from hiring and healthcare to essay evaluation; studies and reviews show these biases arise mainly from training data, model design, and re...
Neuralink’s public messaging and reporting in 2024–2025 focus on restoring motor control, vision restoration (Blindsight), and helping people with paralysis use computers — not on bladder-control or i...
The short answer: —there is technically enough global electricity to power rapidly expanding AI workloads in the near term, but doing so without major trade-offs to emissions, water use and local grid...
The evidence shows concrete examples where or amplify disinformation, and governments — including the executive branch — are actively shaping AI policy in ways opponents say could enable political mes...
Commercial AI‑detection tools claim they can identify AI‑generated text and even the originating model, and some vendors report very high accuracy in tests . Independent academic testing and educator ...
The AI landscape in 2026 converges on a few clear commonalities—practicality over pure scale, proliferation of multimodal and agentic systems, and a shift toward specialized, industry-tuned models—whi...
Independent, peer-reviewed research on Neuralink’s human-trial outcomes is essentially absent; published evidence available to the public so far comes mainly from company disclosures, regulatory filin...
Recent large reviews and trials show growing evidence that vitamin D affects more than bones: a 2025 MDPI review lists roles in immunity, pregnancy, brain function, cancer and cardiovascular health , ...
U.S. courts currently evaluate probable cause from AI-generated CSAM flags under existing Fourth Amendment frameworks that require a judge to assess whether informant-style tips — here, algorithmic ou...