Viral Misinformation
Testosterone Conspiracies, Fiberglass Hoaxes, and UAP Disclosure Theater: Signal vs. Noise
I ran through a wide-ranging compilation today, from "Upstream files" testosterone conspiracy claims and fiberglass toilet paper panic to a U.S. congressman teasing unreleased UAP footage and an AI company monetizing grief with three-minute avatar videos. Some of it is worth pulling apart. A lot of it is noise. My job is telling the difference.
I've Been Watching for the Wrong Signs: Breaking Down a Full Episode of Viral Misinformation
I ran a full compilation of viral conspiracy and paranormal clips through basic verification and the results were about what you'd expect: a lot of confident framing, almost no receipts. The episode covered Kardashian conspiracy theories, Paris fashion week "skin shoes," missing scientists, Tesla autopilot footage, McDonald's fries, Schumann resonance theory, and celebrity soul-contract claims. The thread connecting all of it is the same gap between what you're shown and what's actually happening.
I Have Been Listening to the Wrong Man: Rating the Internet's Most Viral Misinformation
I spent one broadcast running through the internet's most-shared viral clips, conspiracy theories, and manufactured outrage, rating each for what it actually contains versus what it claims. From Megan Fox's account of filming Bad Boys 2 at age 15, to Trump's public feud with Pope Leo, to a claimed Anthropic AI called Methuselah that allegedly broke containment, to the Titanic lifeboat myth, the through line is the same: the surface story is almost never the actual story.