Breaking news: Internet erupts as Hillary Clinton confesses: "I am the mother of an extraterrestrial love child."

[EarlG]

9. It sounds good in theory

But… you’re essentially asking for a ban on hyperbole. It’s one of those things that is easy to suggest and easy for people to recommend, but how would we go about codifying and enforcing the banning of hyperbole?

Aside from that, I will say that there has been a debate for twenty years over whether Raw Story is an acceptable source. It does its own reporting, but it also repackages other people’s news stories in a more sensationalist way. It has its fans, and its detractors. We could have a discussion about whether it currently belongs in LBN.

As for AI slop, this is going to be a problem for the entire world going forward, now that AI video content is practically indistinguishable from the real thing. One way to handle this would be to ban videos completely on DU, which would basically be the nuclear option. At the moment though, I’d encourage DUers who don’t like videos to simply Trash the Liberal YouTubers and Cable News Clips forums, because that will eliminate the vast majority of them from your view, and will significantly reduce hyperbolic headlines on the Latest page.