‘News’ Site Keeps Hallucinating EFF Staffers (opens in new tab)

What do EFF staffers Sarah Chen, Javier Morales, Caitlin Chin, Emma Rodriguez, and Mikko Kopponen have in common? For one thing, they don’t exist. For another, all have been quoted as EFF experts in articles published in the past two months on a site called News-USA Today, which describes itself as “an independent news publisher focused on clear, accurate, and useful journalism.” Uh… (Please don’t confuse this site with USA Today, in which real EFF experts are accurately quoted on a regular b...