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Data Brokers Sell Your Address, Then Sell You the Squeegee to Wipe It Off

A Minnesota murder case revealed a suspect's handwritten list of 11 people-search sites - and the press turned it into an ad for paid data-removal subscriptions that politely ask the same brokers to stop.

Satire & commentary · 2026-10-22

Editorial cartoon of a chrome robot at a law school lectern writing a fabricated Bluebook citation on a chalkboard, while an elderly professor in the front row holds up a completely blank law journal open to the nonexistent article's cited pages, and a crow holds a LEXIS printout showing zero search results.

Technology

Google Gemini Fabricated a Law Professor's Article - Then Aced Its Own Autopsy

Google Gemini invented a nonexistent law review article, complete with Bluebook citation and page numbers, attributed to a real professor - then delivered a fluent, analytically structured explanation of exactly how it lied so convincingly.

Satire & commentary · 2026-10-22

Data Brokers Sell Your Address, Then Sell You the Squeegee to Wipe It Off

Google Gemini Fabricated a Law Professor's Article - Then Aced Its Own Autopsy

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