{"id":14866,"date":"2023-12-22T05:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T05:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=14866"},"modified":"2023-12-26T00:39:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T00:39:53","slug":"content-mills-why-you-can-no-longer-trust-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/12\/22\/content-mills-why-you-can-no-longer-trust-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Content mills: News you cannot trust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Content mill garbage &#8211; there is no author. AI written perhaps?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"815\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image.png 970w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-600x504.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-768x645.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-321x270.png 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stories without authors. Which is probably better thant the sites that have fake authors, complete with fake fluffy biographies and fake LinkedIn pages, and AI generated images of their authors. This specific page is <a href=\"https:\/\/holding.wp.pl\/en\/investor\/press-releases\/increase-in-revenues-by-50-wp-holdings-q3-2023-performance-6965532484086464\">a content mill service<\/a> that generates content designed as click-bait. <a href=\"https:\/\/holding.wp.pl\/en\/contact\/media\">They<\/a> are based in Warsaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their content is automatically distributed to MSN Start, Yahoo News and other default browser pages, with stories and titles designed to be clicked. The result is lots of ad impressions. This is not traditional journalism but is the face of new journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy way to spot content mill garbage &#8211; the stories have no author! Of course, some AI sites have created fake author bios with AI generated head shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}