An Associated Press article last week suggested pregnant women have been turned away from emergency rooms due to state abortion bans, but the examples do not appear to support that narrative.
The report, which was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pregnancy-emergency-care-abortion-supreme-court-roe-9ce6c87c8fc653c840654de1ae5f7a1c?taid=6622523e39b57f0001f5de81&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> Friday, cites three examples — two women who were turned away from emergency rooms and another woman who delivered her baby in a car and lost it after a hospital told her they could not give her an ultrasound. The AP cites federal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed early last year.
&#8220;The cases raise alarms about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S., especially in states that enacted strict abortion laws and sparked confusion around the treatment doctors can provide,&#8221; the article states.
Pregnant women have “become radioactive to emergency departments” in states with abortion bans, the AP quoted a health law and policy professor as saying.
The woman who delivered in a car and lost her baby initially showed up with stomach pain at Person Memorial Hospital in Roxboro, North Carolina, where staff told her they would not be able to give her an ultrasound.
The hospital staff failed to tell her it would be risky to leave without being stabilized, federal investigators said. She delivered her baby in a car while on the way to another hospital 45 minutes away, and the baby did not survive.
It is unclear how North Carolina&#8217;s 12-week abortion ban would have affected this woman&#8217;s devastating situation.
Person Memorial Hospital reported the incident, and a hospital spokeswoman said they continue to “provide ongoing education for our staff and providers to ensure compliance.”
In another example the AP cites, a woman who was having contractions was turned away from Falls Community Hospital in Marlin, Texas, when the doctor on duty told her they did not have &#8220;obstetric services or capabilities,&#8221; according to federal investigation records. The doctor recommended the patient drive to a Waco hospital about 35 minutes away.
The hospital broke the law, according to investigators with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The article does not explain how Texas&#8217; abortion ban, which includes exceptions for cases where the pregnancy would risk the life or a major bodily function of the mother, would have affected this woman&#8217;s case.
Another woman miscarried in a restroom toilet after staff at a stand-alone emergency room in a Houston strip mall refused to check her in when her husband asked for help delivering the baby.
The woman&#8217;s husband called 911 as she miscarried in the Sacred Heart Emergency Center&#8217;s lobby restroom, telling first responders in Spanish, &#8220;She is bleeding a lot and had a miscarriage &#8230; I’m here at the hospital but they told us they can’t help us because we are not their client.&#8221;
First responders arrived 20 minutes later and took the woman to a hospital. They appeared confused about the staff&#8217;s refusal to help the woman, 911 transcripts cited by the AP show.
State law requires stand-alone emergency rooms to treat or stabilize patients, a spokeswoman for Texas Health and Human Services told the AP.
Again, it is unclear how Texas&#8217; abortion ban would have affected this case.
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In yet another example, a security guard at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Florida, would not allow a pregnant woman into the triage area because she had a child with her. Medical staff could not find a fetal heartbeat when she returned the next day, the AP said.
Florida bans abortions after six weeks, but it is not clear how the law would have affected this case.
Legacy media outlets have made a variety of claims about the repercussions of state abortion bans, saying they affect everything from miscarriage care to treatment for ectopic pregnancies.
However, in many cases, the details reveal these situations are much more complex.

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A journalism institute bestowed its first-place award for “Team Picture of the Year” on the Associated Press (AP) for its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. The photo, taken by a freelance photographer, showed the horrifying image of Hamas terrorists parading a young Israeli woman’s body through the streets of Gaza.
The Reynolds Journalism Institute, which calls itself the world’s oldest photojournalism competition, featured the photo taken by photographer Ali Mahmud —who actually accompanied Hamas terrorists during the murderous October 7 massacre in which over 1200 Israelis were slain — that showed Shani Louk.
“The grim photo featuring <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/who-is-shani-louk-woman-who-hamas-paraded-on-a-truck/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shani Louk’s body</a> was among a collection of 20 images that helped the Associated Press secure first place in one of the <a href="https://www.poy.org/81/14.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pictures of the Year International</a> <a href="https://www.poy.org/81/14.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">award categories</a> earlier this month,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/28/world-news/outrage-as-photo-of-hamas-terrorists-parading-shani-louks-body-wins-top-award/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> noted, adding, “In announcing the AP’s win, the award organizers posted the unblurred image of Louk’s lifeless body on its Instagram page.”
The Reynolds Journalism Institute <a href="https://poy.org/81/14.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “This premiere category recognizes the collaborative effort of a photography staff covering a single topic or news story. It is a narrative picture story that consists of images taken as part of a team effort to cover a single issue or news story.”
It <a href="https://poy.org/81/judges.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> of the “Pictures of the Year” competition, “Pictures of the Year International selects judges who maintain the highest journalistic and ethical standards. We have confidence that these same values will apply as jurors for POYi.”
“Other photos, mostly attributed to other photographers on behalf of the Associated Press, were snapped of destroyed or damaged buildings in Gaza, injured or dead Palestinians, Israelis mourning at funerals or fleeing from rocket attacks,” The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-794100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “However, many of these photos allude to photographer&#8217;s previous knowledge and possible involvement of the massive attack launched on Israeli soil &#8211; in order to get the ‘shot of a lifetime.’”
In late October, Israeli President Isaac Herzog confirmed that a piece of a skull had been found with DNA that matched Louk.
“On that day, they were in a position to take pictures of Hamas abducting innocent Israelis into Gaza,” Honest Reporting <a href="https://honestreporting.com/ap-wins-award-honoring-photojournalists-who-captured-hamas-atrocities-on-oct-7/">said</a> of the AP photojournalists who were with the Hamas terrorists. “They could not have done so without the passive or active agreement of terrorists on the ground.”
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Congratulations to <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a> for winning a Pictures of the Year award. How does it feel to do so on the back of Palestinian photojournalists who infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7 and took photos like the one below of Shani Louk&#39;s dead body in a Hamas pickup?
Was <a href="https://twitter.com/RJI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RJI</a> bothered about that… <a href="https://t.co/MSasc9yzVp">pic.twitter.com/MSasc9yzVp</a>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kate-middleton">Kate Middleton</a>, Princess of Wales, has apologized after an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/photos">image</a> she shared on one of the official royal family&#8217;s social media accounts on Sunday was removed from photo agencies for being “manipulated.”
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/royal-family">royal family</a> member has taken a break from royal duties since undergoing an abdominal surgery in January. Despite being announced by the palace, Kate’s absence has sparked a number of conspiracy theories.
An unofficial photo of the duchess in a car with her mother <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kate-middleton-spotted-in-public-for-first-time-since-surgery-amid-wild-speculation-from-fans">made headlines</a> last week. Now, Middleton released a photo of herself with her children in honor of Mother’s Day in the U.K., which was on March 10. 
“Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support over the last two months,” the image caption said. “Wishing everyone a Happy Mother’s Day.” 
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The photo showed a smiling Catherine posing with her three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. But shortly after it was released, the Associated Press and other photo agencies issued a “kill notification” after noticing the image had been edited. Part of Princess Charlotte’s arm appeared to be missing in the photo.
Followers also noticed that Kate was not wearing her wedding rings on her left hand, among other minor inconsistencies, such as the pattern on Prince Louis’ sweater and a white line in the background. 
&#8220;AP initially published the photo, which was issued by Kensington Palace. But AP later retracted the image because at closer inspection, it appeared the source had manipulated the image in a way that did not meet AP&#8217;s photo standards,&#8221; the agency <a href="https://apnews.com/article/kate-princess-photo-surgery-ca91acf667c87c6c70a7838347d6d4fb">wrote</a>. &#8220;The photo shows an inconsistency in the alignment of Princess Charlotte&#8217;s left hand.&#8221;
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The online reaction was so extreme that the duchess issued a statement saying she had edited the image. 
At around 10:30 a.m. U.K. time on Monday, Kate <a href="https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1767135566645092616">shared</a> on X, &#8220;Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother&#8217;s Day.&#8221;
The Princess of Wales is taking time off from royal duties until Easter.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/associated-press">Associated Press</a> is being criticized for its coverage of the murder of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/georgia">Georgia</a> college student Laken Riley, with many social media users accusing the outlet of failing to report key details of the case that didn’t fit the desired narrative.
Riley, 22, was a nursing student at Augusta University. She was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/murder">killed</a> last week while out running on the University of Georgia trails. Venezuelan native Jose Antonia Ibarra was taken into custody shortly after and was already known to law enforcement after being arrested for other crimes.
It was suspected that Ibarra entered the United States <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration">unlawfully</a> after the local police chief on Friday said he &#8220;is not a U.S. citizen.&#8221; On Friday night, NewsNation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-arrested-for-murder-of-georgia-nursing-student-was-illegal-immigrant-report">cited</a> &#8220;multiple DHS sources&#8221; that said Ibarra is in the United States illegally, a fact which was later <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jose-ibarra-suspect-murder-georgia-nursing-student-illegal-entry-venezuela/">confirmed</a> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Sunday. An AP story published on Saturday didn’t mention his citizenship status, referring to him only as an “Athens resident.” 
The title of the article also deflected the central details of the crime. It was published under the header, “The killing of a nursing student out for a run highlights the fears of solo female athletes.”
Social media users stated their criticism of alleged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/media-bias">media bias</a> as tensions about U.S. border security and citizen safety continue to be trending topics nationwide.
“The corporate media will blame a woman for exercising alone before blaming an illegal alien for killing her,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ press secretary Christina Pushaw <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1761802129872675237">wrote</a> in reply to the article link on X. 
“Entire article is a disgrace,” another person agreed.
“Really? You want to try that again… maybe add something about illegal immigrants being released from sanctuary cities after they’ve been arrested only to go to a different state where they can commit more crime?” a third person echoed.
A popular tweet from conservative commentator Mary Katharine Ham summed up the situation from her perspective. 
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Hi, female athlete here. I ran this exact trail every single week of my college career. I guess I could have been snuffed out before I graduated, had a career, family, and the professionals at the AP would lie about the suspect bc it fits a preferred narrative. Ibarra is not… <a href="https://t.co/8V5AQVRo9l">https://t.co/8V5AQVRo9l</a>
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“Hi, female athlete here,” she wrote. “I ran this exact trail every single week of my college career. I guess I could have been snuffed out before I graduated, had a career, family, and the professionals at the AP would lie about the suspect bc it fits a preferred narrative.&#8221;
She continued, “Ibarra is not merely an ‘Athens resident,’ and Laken Riley and every other student was put in danger by not enforcing laws and allowing a man arrested 3x after crossing the border to hang out and work on campus. He had to escalate to alleged murder to be held and/or risk deportation. Good policies. Good work.”
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Ibarra, 26, is being held on charges that include malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping and hindering a 911 call, per <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jose-ibarra-suspect-murder-georgia-nursing-student-illegal-entry-venezuela/">CBS News</a>. He was previously arrested for entering the country illegally in 2022. Ibarra was also charged with &#8220;acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17&#8221; and has a motor vehicle license violation, according to the ICE statement.

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The Associated Press, discussing the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay after she was accused of chronic plagiarism, not only accused conservatives of using charges of plagiarism as a “weapon” to target leftists in higher education, but also decided to vilify white Americans, by writing American history from a woke perspective, saying scalping was a gruesome practice &#8220;taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans&#8221; and ignoring that Native Americans were scalping long before the colonists arrived.
AP published an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/harvard-president-plagiarism-claudine-gay-3b048da1f2ee17b5edec3680b5828e8f?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter">article</a> titled, “Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism,”  reporting that conservative activist Christopher Rufo — who along with Christopher Brunet <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/p/is-claudine-gay-a-plagiarist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke the story</a> of Gay’s plagiarism with <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-president-claudine-gay-hit-with-six-new-charges-of-plagiarism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later help</a> from Aaron Sibarium— responded to the news of Gay’s resignation by <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742247527523713211" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeting</a>, “SCALPED.” “On X, formerly Twitter, he wrote &#8216;SCALPED,&#8217; as if Gay was a trophy of violence, invoking a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans,” AP wrote.
But as <a href="https://www.americanheritage.com/who-invented-scalping" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Heritage</a> has pointed out, scalping was practiced by Native Americans long before colonists arrived in America:
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When Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence to what is now Quebec City in 1535, he met the Stadaconans, who showed him “the scalps of five Indians, stretched on hoops like parchment.” His host, Donnacona, told him they were from “Toudamans from the south, who waged war continually against his people.” Twenty-nine years later, another Frenchman, artist Jacques Ie Moyne, witnessed the Timucuans’ practice of scalping on the St. Johns River in Florida. &#8230;
The French were not alone in witnessing the Indian custom of scalping. When the English brazenly set themselves down amid the powerful Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia, the Indians used an old tactic to try to quash their audacity. In 1608 Powhatan launched a surprise attack on a village of “neare neighbours and subjects,” killing twenty-four men. When the victors retired from the scene of battle, they brought away “the long haire of the one side of their heades [the other being shaved] with the skinne cased off with shels or reeds.” The prisoners and scalps were then presented to the chief, who hung “the lockes of haire with their skinnes” on a line between two trees.
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AP acknowledged, “Gay didn’t directly address the plagiarism accusations in a campus letter announcing her resignation,” but cited her plagiarism as “shortcomings”: “Reviews by conservative activists and then by a Harvard committee did find multiple shortcomings in Gay’s academic citations.”
AP quoted President Irene Mulvey of the American Association of University Professors, saying she feared plagiarism investigations could be “weaponized.” She told AP, “There is a right-wing political attack on higher education right now, which feels like an existential threat to the academic freedom that has made American higher education the envy of the world.”
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Associated Progressives (AP) is trying to run the false narrative that &quot;white colonists&quot; invented scalping &quot;to eradicate Native Americans,&quot; without noting that, in fact, the Indians originated the practice in North America and, in modern times, it is a common journalistic phrase. <a href="https://t.co/LmiippwIu0">pic.twitter.com/LmiippwIu0</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742561283051020500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This is the beginning of the end for DEI in America&#39;s institutions. We will expose you. We will outmaneuver you. And we will not stop fighting until we have restored colorblind equality in our great nation. 🇺🇸
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742253604222960000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Associated Press was mocked on social media Wednesday after publishing an article blaming conservatives for using plagiarism as a new “weapon” after Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned amid extensive plagiarism allegations. 
Gay <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/claudine-gay-to-resign-as-harvard-president-report">announced her resignation</a> Tuesday in the wake of mounting plagiarism accusations and criticism over her Congressional testimony on Harvard’s actions to combat anti-Semitism following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Many people celebrated Gay’s resignation as a victory for educational and moral standards, but according to the AP, the Harvard president’s departure is proof that conservatives will use plagiarism to attack higher education. 
“The downfall of Harvard’s president has elevated the threat of unearthing plagiarism, a cardinal sin in academia, as a possible new weapon in conservative attacks on higher education,” AP reporters Collin Binkley and Moriah Balingit <a href="https://apnews.com/article/harvard-president-plagiarism-claudine-gay-3b048da1f2ee17b5edec3680b5828e8f">wrote</a>. 
“The plagiarism allegations came not from her academic peers but her political foes, led by conservatives who sought to oust Gay and put her career under intense scrutiny in hopes of finding a fatal flaw,” the article continued. “Her detractors charged that Gay — who has a Ph.D. in government, was a professor at Harvard and Stanford and headed Harvard’s largest division before being promoted — got the top job in large part because she is a Black woman.” 
The AP’s post on X directing people to the article was hit with a “<a href="https://twitter.com/i/birdwatch/n/1742503434299838827">community note</a>” that stated, “Plagiarism is a breach of rules for Harvard University. Claudine Gay was ultimately forced to resign for a series of breaches of this policy. Plagiarism &#8211; or application of the rules around plagiarism &#8211; therefore cannot be considered a &#8216;weapon.'&#8221;
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Harvard president&#39;s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism <a href="https://t.co/GiVkT3LgUo">https://t.co/GiVkT3LgUo</a>
&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1742455903264129474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Still, some leftists attempted to defend the AP for publishing the piece. 
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Many political commentators, however, piled on the legacy media outlet for its attempt to cast blame on conservatives for the Harvard president’s resignation.
“Harvard president&#8217;s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against the Left: [insert any objective standard here],” <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1742531038587306183">wrote</a> Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro. 
“Pretty worried about this new chronoweapon that can force you to go back as many as 27 years in time and commit plagiarism,” <a href="https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1742482963978412128">said</a> statistician and political writer Nate Silver. 
“This headline is something,” Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1742546009341792728">wrote</a>. “Plagiarism is actually bad. It’s not a ‘conservative weapon.’”
Gay’s alleged plagiarism was first brought to light by Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-harvard-president-claudine-gay-now-under-fire-for-alleged-plagiarism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined</a> what he indicated to be three instances of Gay plagiarizing, per Harvard standards, in her dissertation. The former Harvard president has now been hit with nearly 50 allegations of plagiarism affecting eight of her 17 published works. 
The AP’s piece also went after Rufo for celebrating after Gay announced her resignation, claiming that his use of the word “scalped” in a social media post “invok[ed] a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans.” Scalping was a <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/scalping">common practice</a> used by American Indian warriors — both in intertribal conflicts and clashes with European settlers — to achieve honor and to showcase their victims&#8217; scalps as a trophy.
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You’d think nothing in the article could top the headline, but then you see <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a>’s definition of scalping. <a href="https://t.co/BaC9cJaBjs">https://t.co/BaC9cJaBjs</a> <a href="https://t.co/WORZ2IqISp">pic.twitter.com/WORZ2IqISp</a>
&mdash; John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCormackJohn/status/1742514659553317133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“It’s almost like the @AP buried the lede,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1742543704215167446" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> The Dispatch Editor-in-Chief and CNN contributor Jonah Goldberg. “‘Taken up by white colonists’ is a polite way of saying the settlers culturally appropriated the indigenous custom.” 
Hayden Daniel contributed to this report.

AP Blasted For Article Labeling Plagiarism As ‘New Conservative Weapon’ In Wake Of Claudine Gay Resignation

AP Blasted For Article Labeling Plagiarism As 'New Conservative Weapon' In Wake Of Claudine Gay Resignation

Education

Hamas’ friends in the press have hit upon a new strategy: they are now claiming that Israel is targeting journalists. According to The Washington Post, “For weeks, hundreds of locally based journalists in the Gaza Strip have provided the world with intimate views of the devastation on Palestinian lives and homes – while trying to find ways to survive themselves and keep their families safe.”
Yes, we are told, journalists in Gaza are under assault.
But there is another story here.
Another, far more nefarious story.
That story goes like this: journalists in the Gaza Strip are typically propagandists for Hamas. That is how they got in. That is why they have been allowed to operate. Hamas deliberately places these pseudo-journalists in areas designed to shield Hamas military resources.
That story happens to be true.
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Honest Reporting, a 501(c)3 website dedicated to uncovering prejudice in journalism, ran a shocking story. They reported that during the October 7 massacre of 1,400 Israelis and kidnapping of another 240, Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters — so-called stringers for the major wire services — were present. That presence could only have occurred with prior coordination with Hamas. As Honest Reporting says, “Four names appear on AP’s photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.”
Here is a picture of Hassan Eslaiah being kissed by Yahya Sinwar, the military leader of Hamas and mastermind behind the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis.
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More: Here is Hassan Eslaiah, an <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> contributor, taking a selfie while being kissed by Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza and architect of the 10/7 slaughter. <a href="https://t.co/V1J5cfUpCS">https://t.co/V1J5cfUpCS</a> <a href="https://t.co/SrFQ4cUdzw">pic.twitter.com/SrFQ4cUdzw</a>
&mdash; Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) <a href="https://twitter.com/NoahPollak/status/1722365617146335592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Footage shows Eslaiah standing in front of a burning tank during October 7, wearing no press vest or marking of any sort.
The other three pseudo-journalists were there, too, prepared to take pictures of Hamas’ atrocities.
And then the wire services paid them for it and gave them photo credits.
This, unfortunately, is nothing new. The journalists stationed in Gaza either work directly for Hamas or under the thumb of Hamas. All the way back in 2014, the Times of Israel reported that journalists had been questioned and threatened by Hamas; photographers who took pictures Hamas didn’t like had their cameras confiscated. The Washington Post reported at the time that al-Shifa Hospital had “become a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders, who can be seen in the hallways and offices.” The Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal wrote on Twitter that Hamas used al-Shifa “as a safe place to see media,” but then inexplicably removed the post. One French reporter printed a story about being threatened by Hamas – and then had the outlet remove the story for his own safety.
So, when you see “journalism” from Gaza, just understand — there are no free journalists in Gaza. Either journalists are living under Hamas’ thumb, or they work directly with Hamas. As one Spanish reporter said, “We saw the Hamas men” hiding behind civilians, “but had we dared point the cameras at them, they would have opened fire at us and killed us.”
So, here’s the big question: Would journalistic outlets like the AP and Reuters use stringers associated with white supremacist groups in order to take pictures at Charlottesville? Or are they only willing to use stringers who associate openly with terrorists and voice their support for Hitler, so long as they’re Islamic radicals? What moral responsibility do the AP and Reuters and their like bear for printing the propaganda of Hamas and its minions?
An awful lot of responsibility, of course.
And, as usual, that reality is obscured via projection. We’re now supposed to believe that Gaza is rife with excellent journalists being targeted not by Hamas, but by Israel.
Projection is the name of the game in this conflict.
It always is.
It’s why we see idiots or moral perverts playing silly semantic games obviously meant to tar Israel with the crimes of its enemies. They make vague statements about opposing genocide “from all sides.” Which is a bit like saying, after watching O.J. Simpson butcher his ex-wife and then watching the police arrest him, that you are against violence on all sides. Only one side in this conflict is attempting genocide, and it isn’t Israel, and any implication to the contrary is either idiocy or malevolence.
It&#8217;s why we see idiots or moral perverts attempting to deflect from Hamas’ crimes with talks about Israel’s treatment of Arabs — despite the fact that 20% of Israel’s population is Arab, and that any Jew who wanders into Gaza or Jenin will be summarily murdered.
It’s why we see idiots or moral perverts pointing to civilian casualties in Gaza and murdered civilians in Israeli villages and pretending that their causes of death are somehow equivalent.
For Israel’s enemies — and for Hamas’ most ardent advocates — everything is projection. And the press are certainly Israel’s enemies. 
Which is why they’ll hire supposed journalists who work directly with Hamas.
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Why The Press Hires Journalists Who Work Directly With Hamas

Ben Shapiro

Opinion

Readers Pass

Reuters

Photographers from the Associated Press and Reuters appear to have been embedded with Hamas terrorists as they executed terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, according to a new <a href="https://honestreporting.com/photographers-without-borders-ap-reuters-pictures-of-hamas-atrocities-raise-ethical-questions/">report from Honest Reporting</a>, a media watchdog.
Photos posted by the news agencies of the surprise terrorist attack on Israel include ones showing terrorists breaking the gates to Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where residents were caught completely off guard and dozens were murdered. Photos also show that photographers were on the scene as terrorists took civilians such as Shani Louk hostage, and attacking Israeli tanks on the other side of the Gaza border.
The photos raise serious questions about whether the news agencies had advance knowledge that the terrorist attacks were taking place. The four individuals credited by the Associated Press for images of the attacks — Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali — are all photographers based in Gaza, where it was revealed in 2021 that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/associated-press-laments-loss-of-gaza-bureau-which-shared-office-space-with-terrorist-organization-hamas">Associated Press shared office space</a> with the terrorist group.
One of the photographers, Hassan Eslaiah, has reportedly been pictured getting kissed by a top Hamas operative who is said to be one of the chief architects of the deadly terrorist attacks, which killed over 1,400 and have led to a massive war with Israel.
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More: Here is Hassan Eslaiah, an <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> contributor, taking a selfie while being kissed by Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza and architect of the 10/7 slaughter. <a href="https://t.co/V1J5cfUpCS">https://t.co/V1J5cfUpCS</a> <a href="https://t.co/SrFQ4cUdzw">pic.twitter.com/SrFQ4cUdzw</a>
&mdash; Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) <a href="https://twitter.com/NoahPollak/status/1722365617146335592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Eslaiah&#8217;s social media posts from the day, which have since been deleted but were preserved by Honest Reporting, show he was on the scene. &#8220;Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements,&#8221; he wrote along with an image of himself with a burning Israeli tank.
After publication of this article, a spokeswoman for the Associated Press denied any advance knowledge of the attack.
&#8220;The Associated Press had no knowledge of the Oct. 7 attacks before they happened,&#8221; said Nicole Meir. &#8220;The role of the AP is to gather information on breaking news events around the world, wherever they happen, even when those events are horrific and cause mass casualties. AP uses images taken by freelancers around the world, including in Gaza.&#8221;
Reuters did not respond to a request for comment. The New York Times and CNN, which both have worked with the photographers in question, also did not respond to inquiries.
Honest Reporting is operated by Gil Hoffman, a veteran Israeli journalist who worked as a political correspondent for the Jerusalem Post for decades. The media watchdog says the &#8220;audience deserves to know&#8221; how photographer&#8217;s real-time knowledge of the terrorist attacks came about. Residents in neighborhoods attacked by Hamas were caught completely off-guard and waited several hours for help to arrive.
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I guess I wasn’t the only one wondering why the <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a> had photographers embedded with the terrorists on 10/7? <a href="https://t.co/0yxTlYLTeh">https://t.co/0yxTlYLTeh</a> <a href="https://t.co/gygpyHpznw">pic.twitter.com/gygpyHpznw</a>
&mdash; Dovi Safier (@safier) <a href="https://twitter.com/safier/status/1722315771441807626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When international news agencies decide to pay for material that has been captured under such problematic circumstances, their standards may be questioned and their audience deserves to know about it,&#8221; the watchdog writes. &#8220;And if their people on the ground actively or passively collaborated with Hamas to get the shots, they should be called out to redefine the border between journalism and barbarism.&#8221;
The mainstream media has come under fire for its handling of Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas, with outlets such as the New York Times and others <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-it-lied-about-israel-new-york-times-verification-badge-removed-by-x">treating false claims</a> by Hamas as facts — such as that the Israelis killed hundreds with a strike on a hospital, when in reality it was a terrorist missile that hit the facility.
The New York Times is actively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ny-times-hires-hitler-loving-journalist-to-cover-israel-hamas-war">publishing stories</a> from a freelance reporter in Gaza who has proclaimed admiration for Adolf Hitler.

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Mainstream Outlets Had Photographers Embedded With Hamas As Terror Attack Unfolded: Report

New York Times

Terrorists

Major American news outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Associated Press routinely cite the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers for civilians purportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes, but the Hamas-run agency has a history of lying about these very numbers. 
After Hamas launched a brutal terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, the Israeli government responded quickly and forcefully, bombing Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip and preparing a ground operation that is expected to begin any day. Quickly after Israel responded to Hamas’ attack with airstrikes on military targets, legacy media outlets began reporting numbers of Palestinian civilian casualties fed to them by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. 
At the top of The New York Times’ live updates on the war, the legacy outlet <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/16/world/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza/heres-the-latest-on-the-war?smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes</a>, “Some two million people remain trapped in Gaza, desperate for water and other critical supplies and fearful of Israeli airstrikes that Palestinian officials say have already killed more than 2,800 people and wounded more than 10,000 others.” Those numbers come directly from the Palestinian Health Ministry, but the Times makes no mention of the agency’s previous lies about its death tolls. 
The Times previously noted that the health ministry used deceptive tactics less than a decade ago. In an article published by the Times on August 5, 2014 — in the midst of an Israeli operation in Gaza to take out terrorists — the news outlet <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/world/middleeast/civilian-or-not-new-fight-in-tallying-the-dead-from-the-gaza-conflict.html?_r=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that the “Palestinian Ministry of Health does not categorize victims as civilian or combatant,” meaning the Gaza-based reporting of civilian casualties was significantly higher than what Israel and the U.N. reported. 
During the 2014 conflict, an <a href="https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/08/12/hamas-lies-about-the-gaza-civilian-death-toll-and-the-media-bought-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> in U.S. News &amp; World Report highlighted Hamas’ lies about civilian casualties, stating clearly that the numbers coming from the Palestinian Health Ministry cannot be trusted. 
“Hamas lies systematically, instructing civilians to misinform the foreign press. It lies habitually, with a formidable record of mendacity from previous conflicts. And it lies guiltlessly, convinced that the objectives of ‘resistance’ supersede quaint notions of truth-telling,” Oren Kessler wrote on August 12, 2014. The report even went on to blast “Western media” for going along with Hamas’ casualty count. 
“Nonetheless, since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge over a month ago, Western media have relied on Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry – as <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSKBN0FV04K20140726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-hamas-trade-fire-as-gaza-death-toll-mounts-1407579399" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/missile-strike-al-shati-refugee-camp-kills-10-including-8-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> – for casualty tallies,” the report added. “As one reporter told the Washington Post, when it comes to body counts, the Hamas Health Minister Ashraf Al-Qidra is ‘the only game in town.’&#8221; 
The fog of war combined with the Gaza Health Ministry’s deceptive reporting makes gathering accurate information on Palestinian civilian casualties nearly impossible. This was proven yet again when an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-defense-forces-terrorists-fired-rocket-that-killed-500-at-gaza-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explosion near a Gaza hospital</a> on Tuesday was blamed on an Israeli airstrike by Palestinian authorities, whose word was taken as truth by mainstream newsrooms. The Hamas-backed health ministry said the blast at the hospital killed at least 500 people, and that claim was plastered on the websites and in the newspapers of American legacy media outlets — again, with no explanation of the unreliable source reporting the deaths. 
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The New York Times <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1714416589724864790/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed</a> its headline <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231017194544/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/17/world/gaza-news-israel-hamas-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231017203739/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/17/world/gaza-news-israel-hamas-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">times</a> after the explosion near the Gaza hospital — initially running with the Palestinian officials’ version of the event before updating the headline as more information came out that indicated the blast came from a failed Hamas rocket. The Times provided no editor’s note explaining the revised headline. 
After the blast at the hospital, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/17/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah/f80150f0-6ca9-11ee-b01a-f593caa04363_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “Before the al-Alhi Hospital deaths, Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 2,778 people and wounded 9,700, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and nearly two-thirds of those killed were children. Another 1,200 people across Gaza are believed to be buried under the rubble, alive or dead, health authorities said.” The death count is reported as fact with no disclaimer about the unreliability of the source it comes from. 
Similarly, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah-e062825a375d9eb62e95509cab95b80c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “A massive blast rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter Tuesday, killing hundreds of people, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military blamed a rocket misfired by other Palestinian militants. At least 500 people were killed, the ministry said.”
American news outlets <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestinians-hostages-updates/#post-update-1871bc50" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2LL2kbNmiY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC</a>, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/chris-jansing-reports/watch/palestinian-officials-hundreds-killed-in-strike-on-gaza-hospital-195816517935" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC</a>, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-13-23/h_1bc0ffaac9b123d607215ecabaadc3eb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN,</a> and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-attacks-200-targets-in-gaza-ahead-of-biden-visit-cd6889d6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> have all followed suit by reporting Hamas’ propaganda as fact, and the health ministry’s lies were also touted by sitting members of Congress, Reps. <a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1714342122185191596" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashida Tlaib</a> (D-MI) and <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1714358704303157661" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ilhan Omar</a> (D-MN). Both of the congresswomen have <a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1714413463928229950" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubled</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">down</a> on accepting the Palestinian authorities’ lies and condemning President Biden for standing with Israel.

Hamas Deaths

Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry Cited By Legacy Media Has History Of Lying About Civilian Casualties

Conflicts

Gaza

Legacy Media

Propaganda

Washington Post

According to a new <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/associated-press-coverage-of-courts-climate-bankrolled-by-dozens-of-left-wing-foundations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, the Associated Press, which has been <a href="https://www.allsides.com/news-source/associated-press-media-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> of having a leftist bias, is working with leftist organizations aplenty, including the <a href="//37D2D2DA-2B0B-4635-A802-B8F6524C6BBB/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ida B. Wells Society</a>, founded by &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; creator Nikole Hannah-Jones.
The AP&#8217;s global investigations editor, Ron Nixon, is a member of the Ida B. Wells Society&#8217;s board of directors.
Others working with AP <a href="https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2022/ap-announces-sweeping-democracy-journalism-initiative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">include</a> the Lilly Endowment Inc., Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation states that it “supports organizations that advance social justice” and <a href="https://jonathanloganfamilyfoundation.org/democracy-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funds</a> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/03/12/the-stacey-abrams-blueprint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stacey Abrams&#8217;</a> New Georgia Project as well as Take Back the Court, a group which <a href="https://www.takebackthecourtfoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>, “to restore the right to vote, ensure reproductive freedom, protect workers, halt our climate emergency, and save democracy, Congress must add seats to the U.S. Supreme Court.”
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation funds Planned Parenthood as well as Advocates For Youth. Catholic Vote <a href="https://catholicvote.org/8-groups-pushing-gender-ideology-in-american-schools/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> of Advocates for Youth:
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The innocuously-named non-profit developed an equally harmlessly-titled <a href="https://www.3rs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">curriculum</a> entitled “Rights, Respect, Responsibility” (3Rs).  &#8230;  Concepts 3Rs teach kindergarteners include “<a href="https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/3rscurric/documents/0K-Lesson-1-3Rs-DifferentKindsofFamilies.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">same gender parents</a>,”  the notion that boys “can have” female body parts, and vice-versa. <a href="https://www.3rs.org/3rs-curric-search/?_sft_grade=kindergarten" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lesson 2</a> of the kindergarten curriculum states, “Most people have a vulva or a penis but some people’s bodies can be different.” 
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The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation said the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn affirmative action “impedes colleges and universities from selecting their own student bodies and fully addressing systemic racial inequalities that persist.&#8221;
Richard W. Hoover, a retired Foreign Service officer, <a href="https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/commentary-associated-press-is-biased/article_07360417-0bb7-53c5-aa6b-67e5fb32f9b2.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> in June, “Both the AP’s Trump coverage and the lack of Biden family coverage have been amply reflected by the Northern Virginia Daily’s May-June output. While Trump’s difficulties are headlined (fair enough), nothing has been reported about the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability’s investigations into alleged Biden family bribes taken from the likes of China, the Ukraine, Romania and Russia.”
In 2020, AP <a href="//37D2D2DA-2B0B-4635-A802-B8F6524C6BBB/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> journalists to stop calling the Black Lives Matter destructive events  “riots” and to use the more neutral term “protests.” Journalists calling the pillaging “looting” was described as “racist.”

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The Associated Press, Once Viewed As Neutral, Works With Pro-Left Foundations

Leftist

A majority of Americans, including nearly 70% of Democrats, think President Joe Biden is too old for another term as president, a new poll found.
About 69% of Democrats and 77% of voters said Biden is too old to serve another four years, <a href="https://apnorc.org/projects/bidens-age-is-a-significant-concern-for-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey.
Only 22% of voters said Biden is not too old for another presidential term.
The Associated Press poll also included a word association exercise that asked people to give the first word or phrase that comes to mind for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and Biden.
About 28% of Democrats <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-age-poll-trump-2024-620e0a5cfa0039a6448f607c17c7f23e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mentioned</a> Biden&#8217;s age. Even one Democrat who said he approved of Biden&#8217;s performance still called him “senile.” Democrats said they preferred the terms mentioning Biden&#8217;s age over “president,” “leader,” “strong” or “capable.”
Out of all respondents, about 15% used words like “slow” or “confused,” and another 26% mentioned Biden&#8217;s age. One Republican said, “potato.”
For Trump, the top words were “corrupt” or “crooked” with 15% of people using those terms, 11% for “bad” and other negative terms, 8% for words like “liar” and “dishonest,” and 8% for “good” and other positive comments.
About three-fourths <a href="https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/August-2023-Omnibus-Biden-Economy-Topline.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they do not want Biden to run in 2024, while slightly fewer, 69% said they do not want former President Donald Trump to run.
Meanwhile, about 74% of voters said they think the country is heading in the wrong direction, according to the poll.
Biden&#8217;s favorability rating has been floundering for months now. About 52% of Americans currently say they have an unfavorable opinion of the president, the poll found.
Biden&#8217;s approval rating on individual policy areas is even worse.
About 63% disapprove of how Biden handles the economy, and 56% disapprove of how he conducts foreign policy, according to the poll. About 45% say they have hardly any confidence at all in Biden&#8217;s ability to &#8220;effectively manage the White House.&#8221;
Corruption is also a big optics problem for Biden.
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A majority of voters, 57%, say they have hardly any confidence in Biden&#8217;s ability to reduce the amount of corruption in the government in Washington.
Biden&#8217;s son Hunter Biden&#8217;s alleged criminal behavior and financial dealings with foreign countries have dogged the president since his campaign and are bound to feature again this election cycle, especially now that the attorney general has appointed a special counsel to investigate the younger Biden.
Nevertheless, Biden seeks a second term and is the decided frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
Biden is polling at about 65.5% for the nomination, while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is polling at 12.8% and self-help author Marianne Williamson sits at 6.8%,  <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/24_democratic_presidential_nomination-8171.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the RealClearPolitics average of polls.
Trump is also polling double digits ahead of his primary contenders battling his own troubles as he contends with dozens of felony charges in four criminal cases against him.
The former president is currently <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling</a> at 53% for the Republican nomination for president, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is polling behind in second, followed by tech entrepreneur and political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy.
Just under half of voters in the Associated Press poll, about 47% say they consider themselves moderate, and only 21% said they consider themselves liberal, while 31% said they consider themselves conservative.
The poll surveyed 1,165 adults from August 10 to 14 with a margin of error of 3.8 percentage points.

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The Associated Press said Thursday it reached a two-year deal with artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI to share access to its news archive in return for technology and product expertise. 
The AP’s deal is one of the first between a major news agency and AI as the technology <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/technology/business-ai-technology.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">becomes more popular</a> in businesses and corporations worldwide, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/07/13/ap-openai-news-sharing-tech-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. As part of the deal, OpenAI will gain access to some of the AP’s text archives dating back to 1985, and the AP will receive expertise from the AI algorithm. A spokesperson told Axios that the two entities are still working through the details of the deal. 
The AP is hoping the deal will put it in a position to lead in developing standards for newsrooms using generative AI, which refers to a system that generates its own text or other media in response to prompts. 
&#8220;AP firmly supports a framework that will ensure intellectual property is protected and content creators are fairly compensated for their work,&#8221; said AP Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer Kristin Heitmann. &#8220;News organizations must have a seat at the table to ensure this happens, so that newsrooms large and small can leverage this technology to benefit journalism.” 
OpenAI’s Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap said the AP’s “feedback—along with access to their high-quality, factual text archive—will help to improve the capabilities and usefulness of OpenAI’s systems.” 
OpenAI <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/openai-unleashes-new-ai-model-gpt-4-which-can-pass-academic-exams-program-software-and-even-do-taxes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> its latest model, GPT-4, in March. During the new model’s release, the company showcased the software’s powerful problem-solving and image recognition, describing images, creating a working website, and even doing simulated taxes. The company <a href="https://openai.com/research/gpt-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that GPT-4 “while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.”
The AP has used automated technology in its reporting for almost ten years, starting with automating corporate earnings reports before using the tech to report on college sports and even <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/4/12092768/ap-robot-journalists-automated-insights-minor-league-baseball" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minor league baseball</a>. The news agency is hoping the deal with OpenAI will help it understand how to potentially use generative AI in its news coverage. 
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