The trump regime’s attack on our democracy is unparalleled. An emergency is declared based on misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies to justify federal takeover and unabated overreach.
Our citizens need to be clear eyed on what is happening and educate itself! The public can protect itself by knowing where to go find the facts. And then there is the rapid growth of AI. AI could be a potential source for spreading even more lies because it so convincing to an unwary public. The following resources can be used to educate ourselves and provide us a means to fight back!
Fact Checking
UMAT Technology and Media Bias/Fact check have provided a number of sources to be used for fact checking.
Media Bias/Fact check
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/2016/07/20/the-10- best-fact-checking-sites/
UMAT Technology
https://umatechnology.org/the-6-best-fact-checking-sites-for-finding-unbiased-truth/
AI can also be detected by learning how to recognize glitches in the AI program. “AI – Can you tell What Is Real” provides a quiz which you can take to see how well you can detect AI generated images. It also provides some explanation of how easy it is to create AI videos. There are also many resources that AI generators can use to perfect their videos. Hopefully detection devices will also become more sophisticated!
AI -Can you tell What Is Real?
Fight back
Robert Reich has written several articles that provide that tell us what we can do now and how we can protect our vulnerable populations.
Robert B. Reich: How To Fight The trump Regime’s Use Of Fear And Intimidation
Robert Reich – What You Can Do Now
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-f3d
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/what-you-can-do-f3d?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Robert Reich – An Important Way To Fight trump Fascism
There are also many articles on how we can help protect our neighbors from ICE raids and how families can – protect themselves.
They Saw Their Neighbors Being Taken Away By ICE. Then They Made A Plan
How to protect your immigrant neighbors from ICE raids – common FAQs
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-protect-your-immigrant-neighbors