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A news desert refers to a community that is no longer covered by daily or nondaily newspapers. The term emerged in the United States after hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers were closed in the 2000s and the 2010s. According to a study in 2018 by the UNC School of Media and Journalism, more than 1,300 communities in the U.S. are considered news deserts.[1] Other communities, while not technically a news desert, may be covered by a ghost newspaper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_desert

Zachary Chen, chief executive of Hoodline parent company Impress3, which acquired the site in 2020, defended the site’s use of AI and its transparency with readers, telling CNN the outlet provides valuable reporting in news deserts around the country and is generating revenue to hire more human journalists in the future.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/30/media/ai-bylines-local-news-hoodline/index.html

A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm

By Hadas Gold, CNN

"I have asked several women (Evangelical) this very question. They told me that they found the guys on ChristianMingle to be incredible judgmental. Guys were asking them about their religious practices, beliefs, knowledge of the Bible and then they said it got MUCH worse when it came to social and sexual attitudes and behaviors. They'd rather find a guy from a more mainstream site."

https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/8g56gu/why_do_people_with_strict_requirements_prefer/

How dare you come on a Christian platform & try to have a standard of / for sex ethics

In 2020, a similar misunderstanding with a Mandarin phrase resulted in more serious consequences for Greg Patton, a professor of communications at the University of Southern California. He was suspended for causing offense for explaining to his class that the Mandarin word “nèi ge” (“那个”), which translates to “that,” is used as a placeholder word in China.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/korean-words-being-mistaken-racial-215800127.html

The sped-up segment of the song that’s been circulating on the social media platform begins with the Korean words “nikka” (“니까”), a conjunction, along with “niga” (“니가”), which roughly translates to an informal use of the word “you” in English. TikTok users have lip-synced to the clip in videos, as seen in countless trends using popular songs, only to come under fire for mouthing what sounds like the N-word.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/korean-words-being-mistaken-racial-215800127.html
That polite way to ask a question in Korean has nigga at the end

“Reason is the Devil’s greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil’s appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom … Throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism… She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, to the closets.” [Martin Luther

https://web.archive.org/web/20210922093831/https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/83743/what-did-martin-luther-really-mean-by-saying-reason-is-the-devil-s-greatest-who