Pranav Dixit

Pranav Dixit is a senior editor at Engadget responsible for handling news coverage during west coast hours. He previously spent more than five years in New Delhi as the India-based tech correspondent for BuzzFeed News, writing about the impact of Silicon Valley tech companies on the culture, society, democracy, and politics of over a billion people in the region. In 2019, he won a Mirror Award for his feature about how misinformation that spread through WhatsApp destroyed an Indian village and was a 2022 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dixit focuses on tech news with primary topics including AI, social media, and online privacy. His work often highlights conflicts of interest, logical fallacies, deception or biases within the tech industry.

Biography:  https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/pranav-dixit/

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The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

Bias

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Conflicts of Interest

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Contradictions

96%

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  • Advanced voice mode for ChatGPT will take one more month to launch.
  • OpenAI is improving the ability of the advanced voice mode to detect and refuse certain content.

Deceptions

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Recent Articles

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OpenAI Delays Release of Voice and Emotion-Reading Features for ChatGPT Amid Safety Concerns and Legal Investigations

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