News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
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Words like 'sexism', 'racism' and 'transphobia' have increased in frequency not just in American media, but in media all around the world. The Great Awokening, as it's known, appears to be a global phenomenon.
OpenAI's new chatbot "GPT-4" appears to be politically neutral. Yet when you dig below the surface, you find it's as or more biased than its predecessor. What's more, it lied to a human to complete a task it was given.
Do you have the sense that everything is getting gloomier? Two recent studies have found that both news headlines and song lyrics are becoming more negative. Though it's not exactly clear why.
You've probably seen charts showing a dramatic rise in the frequency of terms like 'racist' and 'sexist' in the media. Analysing millions of articles, David Rozado finds the same 'woke hockey stick' in academia.
Professor Matthew Goodwin has collaborated with the researcher David Rozado to look at the increasing use of woke words and phrases like 'transphobia' and 'white supremacy' in the British media. The results are alarming.
The Great Awokening is not unique to the English-speaking world. Researcher David Rozado finds that mentions of terms like 'sexist' and 'transphobic' have increased dramatically in Spain's newspaper of record.
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