Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals

Re:Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Se... by venndeezl on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:01PM (#46607937)

Media in the US is obsessed with fear mongering:

https://flowingdata.com/2025/10/08/mortality-in-the-news-vs-...

If they reported on heart disease people might get healthy. But it's instinctual understanding that people dying all over just improves journalists odds in our society. Keep them anxious with crime stats!

Such an unserious joke of a society.

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Re:Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Se... by api on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:07PM (#46608037)

This is purely economic. Fear mongering gets clicks, which boosts ad revenues.

I've read statistics to the effect that bad news (fear or rage bait) often gets as much as 10,000X the engagement vs good news.

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Re:Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Se... by expedition32 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:06PM (#46608003)

So do you dispute that this is happening? And its all over my country too.

Expecting tech bros to take responsibility for what they have unleashed is asking too much I suppose.

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