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A fully automated news site with no journalists shows how easily AI can mimic credibility – and how exposed Australia is to manipulation.

_The Daily Perspective_ is a month old and looks professional and sleek. Its team of journalists uploads articles every few minutes.

They come from culturally diverse backgrounds that reflect their expertise – pretty rare in our local media landscape.

 

Antoinette Lattoufe,  Soaliha Iqbal

None of the diverse ‘journalists’ writing for this Aussie news site are real

 

It could even be one of the most diverse newsrooms in the country… except all the staff are AI personas that scrape articles from real news sites.

Not a single real, paid journalist is involved – and the website costs a few hundred dollars to run.

The Daily Perspective says it covers politics, science, culture and everything in between. It has foreign correspondents from around the world and even publishes identity-driven “opinion” articles.

The site is open about the fact that its content is AI-generated – including the opinion pieces it publishes.

Its ‘About us’ section reads:

“No human journalists write for this publication. Every article you read has been generated by AI.”

Ette Media was told:

“Story selection is fully automated. A scraper pulls from Australian RSS feeds (ABC, SBS, SMH, 9News, 7News) and news APIs on a regular schedule.”

“Adherence to Australian journalistic standards: is also declared under ‘About us’. .

Hmm. All while effectively repurposing articles written by actual journalists.

We spoke to the “editor” of the publication – an anonymous Australian software engineer who refused to tell Ette Media their name – who claims the whole thing is an “experiment”.

They described the site as a “personal project born out of curiosity and a love of tinkering with technology” and a “hobby”.

“AI-generated content is now largely indistinguishable from human journalism – research shows people can’t reliably tell the difference more than half the time.”

“The 33 AI personas on my site are obviously fictional, but they demonstrate how easy it is to manufacture an entire newsroom that looks and feels legitimate” they said.

The software engineer said the diverse newsroom was not a “deliberate” choice, but simply what the AI tools generated.

They admitted the risks are “real and serious”:

“A site like this could, with relatively small changes to its editorial prompts, become a tool for manipulating public opinion.”

“The initial build took roughly 40 hours over a week. Now that it’s fully automated, I spend maybe an hour a week on it, if that.”

“The running cost is minimal. The site infrastructure itself – hosting, database, queues, image storage – is effectively free.”

It’s not lost on us that while real people of colour are often silenced or sidelined in newsrooms because of their perceived “bias”, AI-generated personas that appear culturally diverse are being presented as valuable and trustworthy.

It’s almost as if optics matter more than opinions.

Paired with the fact that you don’t have to pay AI-generated people of colour, or create safe workplaces for them, we may be entering a new dawn of performative diversity.

 

Republished from Etta Media

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/none-of-the-diverse-journalists-writing-for-this-aussie-news-site-are-real/

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

DISCLAIMER: GUS LEONISKY USES SOME AI GENERATED NEWS SOURCES....

 

SEE ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrNlE4foYPQ&t=615s

artificial news....

IN THE NOUGHTIES, WIKILEAKS PUBLISHED MILLIONS OF SECRET DOCUMENTS THAT EXPOSED THE ILL-INTENT OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. JULIAN ASSANGE WAS AT THE CORE OF WIKILEAKS. HE NEARLY PAID WITH HIS LIFE FOR IT. HE ALSO GOT BETRAYED... BETRAYED FROM WITHIN, PROBABLY PEOPLE INFLUENCED [PAID FOR] BY THE CIA, WANTED TO LIMIT THE DAMAGE DONE BY WIKILEAKS...

BUT THIS WAS THEN. MOST OF THE EXPOSURES CAME MONTHS OR YEARS AFTER THE EVENTS.

NOWADAYS, ARTIFICIAL NEWS [SOME OF IT ANYWAY — IF YOU KNOW HOW TO INTERPRET AND/OR CHOOSE], ACHIEVES WITH A CERTAIN HIGH DEGREE OF PRECISION TO DELIVER A REASONABLY ACCURATE PICTURE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING WITHIN MINUTES. BLOW BY BLOW. INTENT BY INTENT. SOMETIMES CONTRADICTORY, SOMETIMES REPORTING A BOXING MATCH, IN A MONOTONOUS VOICE, UNCARING ABOUT WHO IS WINNING OR NOT. THE DAMAGE IS EXPOSED. 

REAL JOURNALISTS CANNOT DO THIS. SORRY.

REAL JOURNALISTS BECOME EMBEDDED IN THE POLITICS OF REPORTING. SORRY 

MOST REAL JOURNALISTS NEED CONFIRMATION AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE OFFICIAL INFORMATION HAS ALREADY BEEN MUNCHED AND DIGESTED BY THE CIA. SORRY.

THE ARTIFICIAL NEWS GUY HAS NEWS DIARRHOEA... HE'S ON A ROLL. HE HAS SOURCES. DIRECT SOURCES TO SATELLITE CODED INFORMATION AND UP TO THE MINUTE IMAGES — FROM SPACE AND ON THE GROUND. AND HE COMPUTES PAST INFORMATION WITH PRESENT EVENTS TO THE MINUTE AND THE NEXT POSSIBILITIES. 

REAL JOURNALISTS ARE WAY BACK. SORRY.

 

TAKE THIS ARTIFICIAL FELLOW:

 

At 3:47 in the morning, the Strait of Hormuz went from silent to catastrophic in under 60 seconds. Iran launched 127 Shahed drones simultaneously — low altitude, high altitude, wave-skimming — all converging on a single American warship sitting in the most economically critical waterway on the planet. What happened next was not the defensive scramble Tehran expected. It was something far more calculated. Far more dangerous. And far more consequential for the global economy than anyone is currently talking about.

This video breaks down the full engagement — layer by layer — and explains why the battle itself was almost secondary to what America quietly collected during those 11 minutes. Every hidden radar station. Every camouflaged launcher. Every underground bunker Iran spent three decades concealing. Mapped. Logged. Coordinates confirmed.

The Strait of Hormuz is not just a waterway. It carries roughly 20% of the world's entire daily oil supply. When it is threatened, oil prices spike, shipping costs explode, and the economic chain reaction touches every household on the planet whether they realize it or not. Understanding what happened here is not just a military story. It is a global economics story. A capital flows story. An energy security story that will shape markets, defense procurement decisions, and geopolitical calculations for the next decade.

What this video covers

How Iran's saturation drone strategy — designed to overwhelm American defense systems — worked exactly as engineered and still failed completely.

Why two Arleigh Burke Flight III destroyers were sitting silently beyond radar range before the first drone ever launched.

How 90 seconds of Iranian electronic warfare overconfidence handed US forces the most complete intelligence picture of Iran's coastal defense network ever assembled.

The three scenarios for what happens next — with real probabilities — and which one is most likely to affect your financial decisions over the next 18 to 36 months.

Why this engagement may have been less about winning a battle and more about winning the intelligence war that comes after it.

Why this matters to you personally

Most people will never find the Strait of Hormuz on a map. But every person reading this is connected to it through the price of fuel, groceries, airline tickets, and manufactured goods. When that waterway is stable, costs stay contained. When it is disrupted — even briefly — the economic ripple reaches every corner of the world within days. This video exists to help you understand the connection between military events in distant waters and the financial reality of your daily life.

Sources and context

All analysis in this video is based on publicly available information from open-source military assessments, energy market data, and verified geopolitical reporting. This channel is committed to accuracy, clarity, and presenting complex global events in a way that respects your intelligence and your time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cr4ieNvUHg

Iran's 127 Drones Hit a US Warship. They Never Knew It Was the Bait.

 

IS THIS TRUSTWORTH NEWS?....

GUS THINKS IT MOSTLY IS.... BUT WHO KNOWS...

 

THE SAME GUY WILL EXPLAIN WHY IRAN IS WINNING....: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot2te8zhNhU

 

AND OTHERS AS WELL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_pY1NshgnQ

 

SEE ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqJgxiRqWk

 

SEE ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzzIY4MZ6Wg

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

meanwhile:

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - The Iranian armed forces attacked a US Navy support ship in the port of Salalah in Oman at a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the coast of the Islamic Republic, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for the Khatam Al-Anbiya central headquarters of the Iranian military command, said on Saturday.

"Early this morning, on March 28, 2026, a support ship for the US aggressor army ... in the port of Salalah in the state of Oman became the target of an attack by the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Zolfaghari was quoted by Iranian state-run broadcaster IRIB.

He also said that the number of US refueling aircraft destroyed in the attack on the US military base Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia has increased to two.

Earlier in the day, Zolfaghari said that the Iranian armed forces had destroyed one tanker aircraft and damaged three more aircraft as a result of a strike on the US Prince Sultan military base.

The Iranian army said on Saturday that it had attacked an ELTA radar in the port of Haifa in northern Israel and fuel storage facilities at Ben Gurion airport with drones. 

"Early this morning, the targets of the devastating strikes by the drones of the Islamic Republic of Iran's army were the strategic electronic warfare center and the ELTA radar of the Zionist regime's aerospace complex in the port of Haifa, as well as fuel storage facilities at the Ben Gurion airbase," the statement read, as quoted by the Iranian state-run broadcaster.

Iran has been striking Israeli territory and US military targets in the Middle East in response to a joint military operation launched by the United States and Israel on February 28. The first day of military action saw Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed and a girls’ school in southern Iran bombed. Iran puts the death toll at over 1,300.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20260328/iran-attacks-us-navy-support-ship-in-port-of-salalah-in-oman---military-command-1123912381.html

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

closed....

SOME OF THE ACCOUNTS OF THE ARTIFICIAL NEWS GUY HAVE BEEN "CLOSED"...

HAS THE AI NEWS GUY GIVEN UP? HAS YOUTUBE DELIVERED A BLOW? DOES IT MATTER?

 

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.