Journalist Startled to Discover His Byline Has Been Replaced by Bot

Vampire Independent New journalistic nightmare unlocked: a defunct digital publication was revived from the media graveyard, only to have its Frankensteiners re-attribute old articles to bots. Journalist and Forever Wars writer Spencer Ackerman, a one-time employee of the since-sunsetted news site called the Washington Independent, this week recounted his shock to discover that his decade-old articles — […]

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