#journalism #expertise #misinformation
'Dozens of stories have been deleted and amended by leading publishers after a Press Gazette investigation into fake and dubious experts being widely quoted in the UK and US media.
The story exposed a troubling trend of fake profiles commenting in response to online journalists’ requests, targeting lifestyle features and possibly using AI to generate both profiles and comments.'
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/fake-experts-delete/
PressGazette: Publishers delete and amend stories based on dubious experts. “Dozens of stories have been deleted and amended by leading publishers after a Press Gazette investigation into fake and dubious experts being widely quoted in the UK and US media. The story exposed a troubling trend of fake profiles commenting in response to online journalists’ requests, targeting lifestyle […]
Press Gazette: PR industry alarmed at rise of fake commenters exposed by Press Gazette. “Press Gazette’s investigation into fake experts being widely quoted in the national press has prompted a huge reaction from the PR industry. Meanwhile various publishers are understood to be reviewing content and policies in the wake of the story, and the BBC has removed one article altogether from its […]
PressGazette: Virtual reality: The widely-quoted media experts who are not what they seem. “Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, anyone can generate comment, on any subject, in an instant. It is a technology that appears to have fuelled a rise in expert commentators who have appeared widely in national newspapers but who are either not real, not what they seem to be or at the very least have […]
#StudentMobility is a distinct form of mobility, where highly skilled individuals go to study in another country to enhance their #academic skills, #networks, and cultural understanding. Simultaneously, host #regions gain talent and consumer base, while sending regions get returning #expertise.
Do #expertise or reflective thinking mitigate #framingEffects?
Accountants' weren't less vulnerable to framing than students on business decisions, regardless of reflection score.
Students' reflection scores predicted *greater* framing effects?
Ultracrepidarian is a word coined by William Hazlitt to mock William Gifford, a critic who expressed opinions on matters beyond his expertise. It derives from the Latin phrase "ultra crepidam sutor iudicaret", meaning "the cobbler should not judge beyond his shoe". #trump #maga #dictator #democracy #america #government #knowledge #education #expertise
Bei #miosga hockt heute wieder der Herr #soder und wird zu existenziellen Fragen um seine Meinung gebeten. Seit ein paar Tagen wissen wir, dass sein Bashing der #grunen erschwert, unser Land weiter zu bringen. Die #cdu kopiert inzwischen deren Politik. Ich würde mir in solchen Sendungen Leute wünschen, die #ruckgrat #expertise und #loyalität für dieses Land und nicht nur für ihre eigenen Machtspielchen einbringen. #miosga kann man sich getrost sparen.
Tubefilter: Financial advice on TikTok is a volatile market. “Social media is a growing source of financial advice for Gen Z and Millennials, but not all experiences in communities like #FinTok are positive. A survey published by Intuit Credit Karma found that most people in those cohorts have consulted creators on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram for help with their finances, but some of them […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/08/tubefilter-financial-advice-on-tiktok-is-a-volatile-market/
This one time in maybe 2018 I pissed off a few uni colleagues. At a "senate" meeting (it deserves quotation marks at my school) some people with #psychometrics training & experience, including me, explained that a specific kind of #assessment was invalid--as in zero validity for intended purpose--so we should not use it. It literally provides no information about what it says, so we might as well roll dice or draw #random words from a hat.
The administration argued vehemently for keeping the assessment. They claimed it was valid (we showed them it wasn't). They claimed that a "caring" or "astute" instructor could glean valuable information (we showed them that this wasn't possible). They appealed to the other professors, implying that not using this assessment meant they didn't care about their students, and that voting to eliminate this assessment meant they (the eggheaded intellectuals) were being dunked on by the eggheaded intellectuals.
The measure failed and we still use the assessment. After the meeting I and someone else were bemoaning the result. I said something like "What happened in there was Trumpian." A colleague walking by overheard and angrily asked, "What do you mean by that?!"
I said, "The faculty heard from the experts telling them something they didn't like and they chose to go with the people who had no expertise telling them what they wanted to hear."
(I am sometimes not diplomatic; this makes a good story, but I really wish I had found a better way to say that.)
The person audibly huffed, actually turned on their heel, and walked away. They haven't spoken to me since.
The Death of Government Expertise
Why #Trump and #Musk are on a firing spree
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/career-civil-servant-end/681712/
" #DOGE isn’t really a dept... and it has little to do with saving money... The whole enterprise is an attack against civil servants & the very notion of apolitical #expertise...
Modern societies, as #Americans are soon to learn, cannot function without #experts in every field, especially the many thousands who work in #public service."
Populists are generally wary of #experts, especially those who work for the government, but #ElonMusk is no man of the people: He is the richest human being in the world, & he runs major companies that rely both on government-provided #expertise & significant government subsidies. As @anneapplebaum wrote, “Musk has made no attempt to professionally audit or even understand many of the programs being cut”—a willful indifference that gives away the game.
It is a name that #Trump is allowing a favored donor & ally to use in a reckless campaign against various targets in the federal govt. The whole enterprise is an attack against #CivilServants & the very notion of #apolitical #expertise.
Trump allies make noises about expert failures—& yes, experts sometimes do fail. In particular, #MAGA world continues to demonize what its constituents believe was the medical establishment’s attempt to curtail civil rights during the pandemic…
"In the early 20th century, the Spanish writer José Ortega y Gasset warned that such resentment would eventually become the enemy of talent and ability. “The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different,” he wrote in 1930, “everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” Trump and Musk not only feel this same impulse; they have harnessed it for their personal use.
Eventually, such attacks run out of steam when the costs begin to accumulate. No matter how many times Stalin told his scientists to plant wheat in the snow so that it could evolve to grow in the winter, the wheat (which had no political allegiances) died. Today, vaccine refusal might seem like a brave stand against white-jacketed overlords—until your children are stricken with measles or whooping cough.
Modern societies, as Americans are soon to learn, cannot function without experts in every field, especially the many thousands who work in public service. The first step in containing the damage is to see Trump’s and Musk’s goals for DOGE clearly: It is a project rooted in resentful arrogance, and its true objective is not better government, but destruction."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/career-civil-servant-end/681712/
Justifying your analysis with the work of others is simply incompetence.
There is the common logic already verified and there is the personal opinion of each individual, it is not the same.
The intellectual expertise is not based on a simple individual opinion on a subjective form.
The shortcuts or ease are unprofessional.
Thank you. 
#KINutzen
Der Einsatz von #GPT4 in der #Diagnostik zeigt Potenzial, doch aktuelle Studien belegen: Ohne gezielte #Schulung und klare Vorgaben bringt die Integration in den #Klinikalltag kaum Vorteile. Vor allem professionelles #PromptEngineering könnte die Ergebnisse verbessern. #KI kann Ärzt*innen unterstützen, ersetzt aber weder #Expertise noch #Verantwortung. Transparenz und ethische Standards sind essenziell.
Über Blender, Hochstapler, etc , die irre erfolgreich sind
@Some_Emo_Chick Nice reminder to all of us to keep #Wikipedia wholesome by #factchecking and adding to it in our areas of #expertise :)
Gerade den Podcast " #Sockenpuppenzoo – Angriff auf #Wikipedia " zuende gehört. Sehr spannend, und bestärkt mich darin, mal wieder die Wikipedia zu bearbeiten, natürlich nur da wo ich mich wirklich auskenne. Was uns trägt, müssen wir immer pflegen. #Wissen #Infrastruktur #Demokratie #Bildung #Expertise
