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When does early voting start for Illinois’ 2026 primary election?

Early voting for the 2026 Illinois primary election will begin soon across the Chicago area.

Who decides what’s real in the age of AI? Instagram does.

Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s chief doesn’t often respond to critics. When I wrote that his year-end memo cast Instagram as a future referee of reality, he pushed back on Threads. He called it an overstatement and then laid out the need for “credibility signals,” tools to prove content authenticity, and industry-wide verification. That isn’t a rebuttal; it’s reframing. Instagram may not want the label “arbiter of reality,” but it seems content to ta…

Instagram chief warns AI images are blurring reality online

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri has said that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) technology is making it increasingly difficult to verify the authenticity of images. In an Instagram post, he stated that the use of AI in photography is rising sharply making it harder to distinguish real images from AI-generated ones. He explained that one of the major challenges Instagram currently faces is that the world is changing very quickly and t…