🤖📰 When AI Meets the Journalist: A Conversation on Pizzagate, Truth, and the Nature of Inquiry

“I question everything – even the answers of AI.”

By: Justine Fraser, the Journalist | In dialogue with Microsoft Copilot

Misinformation isn’t just a nuisance—it’s a shape-shifter. It morphs across timelines, platforms, and cultural moments, latching onto symbols and suspicion. One of the most persistent examples? Pizzagate—a conspiracy theory that, although widely debunked, continues to feed modern mythologies.

This article chronicles a rare, unedited conversation between a journalist and Microsoft Copilot—an artificial intelligence or AI application. What starts as a simple question turns into a philosophical inquiry about evidence, coded language, and the limits of machine-based truth.

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As Canada and the U.S. celebrate freedom, it’s important to remember the democracy that newsrooms provide, as one man looks to destabilize systems meant to protect you.

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