Trust

• The Fabrication Machine: What Happens When You Skip Verification March 21, 2026

  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.

• The Dead Internet Is Not a Theory Anymore March 11, 2026

  Hacker News banned AI-generated comments this week -- a categorical decision, not a disclosure mandate. The same week, the dead internet theory trended at #2 on the same platform. This is a signal about what technical communities are choosing to protect and whether they can hold that line.