Here’s your Monday at a glance:
- Weather: High 62; few showers
- What to eat: Raspberry cheesecake cookies from East Brainerd’s spanking-new cookie shop.
- What to do: Go see the new Star Wars movie already!
- What we’re excited about: Impossible Food’s new fake sausage.
Greetings, Chattanooga!
I’ll admit I wasn’t familiar with the term “deepfakes,” which apparently refers to videos that are heavily manipulated by artificial intelligence – and which are apparently a growing problem on social media.
Well, last week Facebook announced it will be banning these types of videos in an effort to combat the flow of false information. Here are the pros and cons of that new policy.
– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com
And now, today’s top stories:
A multimillion-dollar makeover is slated for the historic John Ross Building in downtown Chattanooga.
Here are nine things Hamilton County parents should know about magnet school applications.
And Slate, a leading online magazine based in New York, just named this Tennessee-made product as their favorite purchase of the last decade.