deception

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In Turner’s new Prime Video series, she plays a finance worker who gets caught up in a complex web of deception after her office is held up by thieves.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

As AI falsehoods explode across social media, often outpacing the capacity of professional fact-checkers, bogus detectors risk adding another layer of deception to an already fractured information ecosystem.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Once the deception begins, Cohen added, perpetrators often "find it very, very difficult" to stop.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

Striking them down would send a very different message: that deception and abuse can be shielded by the First Amendment when delivered through the power of a professional license.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

The principal, unable to prove the deception, but certain that it had happened, finally let me go.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan