Lying

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (TMTG) filed a $3.8 billion defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post last week, claiming the news outlet made false and defamatory statements against the company. The lawsuit claims The Post knowingly published “false” articles “in order to harm TMTG’s business” and alleges that the outlet conspired with an ex-TMTG employee who provided documents to create a “fraudulent narrative about securities fraud.”Why Does Pike and Grog’s Friendship Work so Well? | The Legend of Vox…

Chinese police arrested a man Sunday in what could be one of the first precedent-setting cases of a person using ultra-popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to allegedly spread misinformation. That, or it could be a new means for state actors to discredit real news by proclaiming it’s all a lie manufactured by generative AI. Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?As reportedby the South China Morning Post Monday, police in the Gansu province in Northern China say they arrested a man for allegedly creating fake articles about a…

If you've got any old Nintendo Gamecube games lying around, then you might want to take them to your local CEX store, or list them on eBay. Nintendo games notoriously hold their value compared to releases from other platforms, and it certainly shows when looking at the top ten most valuable titles from the Gamecube. Worth almost £1,500 if you have all ten, these retro games could help you tackle the rising cost of living, especially if they're sitting around in your attic gathering dust.Gaming site Solitaired has put…

Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kathleen Kennedy recently tossed Kevin Feige’s Star Wars movie onto the scrapheap alongside Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron, which came on the same day it was confirmed that Taika Waititi’s project was confirmed to have survived the latest cull to befall a galaxy far, far away. However, at the weekend’s Star Wars Celebration event, the Lucasfilm president offered that the standalone feature hailing from the architect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was never a…

Around a year ago, I claimed that gaming laptops were lying to us. It was hard not to when you couldn’t trust the spec sheet to give you an idea about how a laptop would perform. I hoped my annual check-in would bring some improvements, but unfortunately, the situation with gaming laptops has only gotten more complicated. Problems with graphics card power are still present, but now processors are dissuading buyers as well. The spec sheet should tell you a lot about how a gaming laptop performs, but the situation in…

James Gunn Hints At Marvel & DC Crossover & We Cannot Wait To Hear More(Photo Credit –wikimedia) Marvel and DC have always been the biggest comic book rivals. When these comic books were adapted into movies, their differences grew, and with time, the comparison of their multiverses reached heights. However, amid the ongoing madness in Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans have often expressed their wish for a next-level crossover that many think is not even possible. However, James Gunn, the new co-CEO of DC…

Kevin Gates’ outlandish claims are par for the course these days.In a new episode of the I Am Athlete podcast, the Baton Rouge rapper told former NFL players Brandon Marshall, LeSean McCoy, and DeSean Jackson that he kept falling ill because he wasn’t being honest.“From me not telling the truth, my throat chakra started getting blocked and I started getting sick, the 37-year-old explained at around the 50-minute mark. “I started having colds until I started opening my throat chakra and speaking the truth. I haven’t been…

To spot a liar, ignore everything except the level of detail in a person's story, new research suggests.If a person provides rich descriptions of who, what, when, how, and why, it's likely they are telling the truth. If they skim over these details, they are probably lying.Using this very simple test and nothing else, people can separate truth from lies with nearly 80 percent accuracy, researchers from the University of Amsterdam have found.When it comes to catching liars, we usually try to employ as many tell-tale signs…

A few years out of my melodramatic teenage years, I savoured Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and all that it presented: two friends looking inwards, in each other’s company; women being indifferent to patriarchy, and a mother accepting a child’s hostile love. This was in 2014, when Ferrante was already a household name, and a favourite on my list of favourites that included Jhumpa Lahiri, Zadie Smith and Mona Simpson. PREMIUM A scene from The Lying Life of Adults (Netflix) 322pp, ₹2267; Europa Editions…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most people value honesty while also recognizing that it is sometimes beneficial to be dishonest. This tension leads individuals to engage in behaviors that stretch the boundaries of honest behavior, such as strategically avoiding information, dodging questions, and making misleading statements. In a new article, researchers reviewed work from a range of disciplines to develop a framework that…