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AI AI-written tourism article tells visitors to Ottawa to visit its food bank Rob Beschizza

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ads CNBC sting: most ad networks accepted fake news site full of scraped content Rob Beschizza

facebook Amnesty International: Google and Facebook spell trouble for human rights Séamus Bellamy

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