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Fame as Immunity: How Celebrity Culture Rewrites Wrongdoing

December 13, 2025December 11, 2025 trevor chen

Though many awards were received during the 2022 Oscars, they were all completely overshadowed when Will Smith stormed the stage and slapped Chris Rock straight across the face. With a massive TV audience watching in stunned silence, most people believed it was staged. Smith subsequently accepted an award and gave

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Distortion Through Creation: How Sora 2 Distorts Reality and Authorship

November 1, 2025October 4, 2026 trevor chen

Imagine watching a video of yourself saying or doing something that never even happened. Though the similarities are completely uncanny, it is just a fabrication. This is a completely real possibility through OpenAI’s new video generation model, Sora 2. Not only is Sora 2 super realistic, physically accurate and easily

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Vandalizing the Archive: Trump, Surkov, and the Spectacle of Fake News

September 30, 2025October 6, 2025 trevor chen

“These are just dishonest, terrible people. I’m telling you that, terrible people,” vocalized President Donald Trump at a MAGA rally in Evansville, Indiana, on August 30, 2018 (Right Side Broadcasting Network). These are not just words being thrown around. They are a part of Donald Trump’s continuing effort to delegitimize

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