Name: FTI: Is “Mainstream Media” Misleading Us? How Do We Know Who’s Lying?
Start: 2025-11-04T18:45:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-04T21:00:00-05:00

“Mainstream media” is generally used to refer to left or center leaning media. But is it really mainstream? Actually, most viewers watch right wing media (Fox, OAN, and newsmax). Here are some statistics on what is mainstream media: [https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68d868355d908191b62c8d00b3cec21b](https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68d868355d908191b62c8d00b3cec21b)

In this session we will teach a very easy and objective way to fact-check media (something we should \*all\* be doing, as there are lots of lies in the media these days: Have your favorite LLM fact check articles. You can have LLMs with various bias check each other’s fact checks and then try to find the primary sources they claim exist.
You can use this prompt to fact check: Please clarify what is accurate, misleading, or outright false in this article: \

A little about our host:
Garrett is a programmer turned award-winning software inventor turned entrepreneur ([PlateRate.com](http://platerate.com/) is his company). His hobby is writing and discussing practical philosophy, and he does life coaching on request to help people live happy, moral lives. He is also the executive director of The Free Thinker Institute ([FreeThinkerInstitute.org](http://freethinkerinstitute.org/)), which aims to create a community that helps members increase happiness and decrease harm for themselves and those they can influence.

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