Links mentioned on 2.16.2026 BLAINESWORLD podcast (and a few others), courtesy of Graeme Browning

BBC Survey
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

One in 5 Americans now regularly get news on TikTok (Pew Research)
1 in 5 Americans regularly get news on TikTok, up sharply from 2020 | Pew Research Center
https://www.pewresearch.org/tools-and-datasets/

Fact-Checking sites:
PolitiFact.org - Pulitzer Prize-winning site from the Poynter
Institute 
https://www.politifact.com/

FactCheck.org -- from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
https://www.factcheck.org/
 
AP News Fact Check
Fact Check: Political & News Fact Check | AP News
https://www.factcheck.org/

Snopes.com
The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
https://www.factcheck.org/

And One more link on the good AI can do. I'm sending it because I just love  this story, and it's so well written too.
To Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/elliq-ai-robot-senior-companion.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

She discusses "Close Quarters," opening on Feb. 20 and running through March 1 at Lamplight AVL. For tickets: https://pltc.simpletix.com/   ... To watch or listen, go to www.blainesworld.net and find the episode dated 2.17.2026. From there, you can watch on YouTube or listen on your favorite podcast platform.

Aaron Ybarra also stars. ... To watch or listen, go to www.blainesworld.net and find the episode dated 2.17.2026. From there, you can watch on YouTube or listen on your favorite podcast platform. ... PS. The show will run from Feb/ 20-March 1 at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts. For tickets: https://tinyurl.com/4emtax6c 

Dogged Utopia's darkly comic musical will run from Deb. 26-March 8 at The Bebe Theatre. For tickets, click: 
https://doggedutopia.simpletix.com/ 

Note: To read Dr. Muntean's insightful op-ed piece that she mentioned in the podcast, click:
https://ashevillecitizentimes-nc.newsmemory.com/?publink=2645a5ea3_1351f94

What’s happening in Asheville from a law enforcement perspective? I spoke with these two individuals on BLAINESWORLD. Watch or listen here: www.blainesworld.net (Feb. 3 episode).