Thomas Lake

Thomas Lake is a seasoned journalist with extensive experience across various publications such as Sports Illustrated, Atlanta Magazine, St. Petersburg Times, and The Florida Times-Union. He has also contributed to prestigious outlets like The Guardian, The Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. His career highlights include being named one of the 60 best features in the history of Sports Illustrated and winning the Henry Luce Award for most outstanding story of 2008 across all Time Inc. publications. As a senior writer for CNN Digital and host of CNN Audio's The James Brown Mystery podcast, Lake has covered numerous topics including an exclusive investigative series on James Brown's death and related mysteries. He has also reported on presidential elections, bourbon thieves, B.B. King's funeral, and a college basketball game that coincided with a tornado. His work is characterized by its depth, variety, and commitment to uncovering the truth.

Biography:  https://www.cnn.com/profiles/thomas-lake-profile

100%

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

100%

Examples:

  • Thomas Lake's reporting is unbiased and factual.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • No conflicts of interest detected in Thomas Lake's reporting.

Contradictions

95%

Examples:

  • The recording was determined to be a deepfake by law enforcement authorities.
  • Thomas Lake's reporting accurately identifies and clarifies contradictions in the story.

Deceptions

100%

Examples:

  • Thomas Lake's work does not contain deceptive practices.

Recent Articles

Baltimore High School Principal's Suspension Over Deepfake Audio: Man Charged with Creating and Disseminating Fake Recording

Baltimore High School Principal's Suspension Over Deepfake Audio: Man Charged with Creating and Disseminating Fake Recording

Broke On: Thursday, 25 April 2024 Baltimore County police revealed that a racist and antisemitic audio recording targeting Pikesville High School principal Eric Eiswert was a deepfake created using artificial intelligence. Dazhon Darien, a former athletic director, was charged with creating and disseminating the fake recording. Forensic analysis uncovered his use of school network to access AI tools for the deepfake creation. Darien faced charges including disturbing the operation of a school and retaliation against a witness.