Journalism
- The Fabrication Machine: What Happens When You Skip Verification
Peter Vandermeersch, former editor-in-chief of NRC and a Mediahuis fellow focused on journalism and AI, was suspended after publishing dozens of AI-hallucinated quotes attributed to real people. This is not a story about a rogue junior staffer. It is a story about what predictable LLM failure modes look like when someone who should know better ignores them.
- When Prediction Markets Corrupt Journalism: Polymarket's Oracle Problem
Polymarket gamblers sent death threats to a Times of Israel journalist to pressure him into changing factual reporting that would settle a live prediction contract. This is not a story about bad actors -- it is a story about incentive design.