Lawrence Bonk

Contributing Reporter Lawrence is a contributing reporter at Engadget, specializing in our AI overlords, musical doodads and, of course, garden variety gaming and tech. To that end, Lawrence once lost badly in multiplayer Mario to Nintendo’s own Shigeru Miyamoto, who laughed gleefully as he threw him down a pit. Lawrence has been in the technology space for over a decade, with work featured in publications like Lifewire, Rolling Stone, Huffington Post, and too many blogs to count. He is known for his unique perspective on tech and gaming news, often incorporating personal anecdotes and humor into his reporting. His primary topics of focus include artificial intelligence, gaming technology, wireless charging standards and music technology.

Biography:  https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/lawrence-bonk-01/

90%

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 has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

95%

Examples:

  • The profiles provided for Lawrence Bonk include multiple instances of reporting on technology and gaming topics without any evidence of bias.

Conflicts of Interest

90%

Examples:

  • There are no direct conflicts of interest reported for Lawrence Bonk in the provided articles.

Contradictions

88%

Examples:

  • One example of a contradiction is the mention of a rolling technique in Tetris that allowed a player to achieve an unofficial high score, which was not mentioned as a controversy or issue.

Deceptions

85%

Examples:

  • An instance of deception is found in the article about Apple's WWDC keynote, where the author implies that new hardware announcements might be made during the event despite no explicit mention of such.

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