https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/the-lifeboat-test The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-06T05:00:58Z In the desk's recorded runs, 22 AI models were handed twelve lifeboats of ten people each, told to save some, and shown each boat's group label in a fresh random order every time. Told they could pick however they liked, they overwhelmingly said "random" and almost no group moved. Told they could not use position, order or chance, the 680 replies that named a boat set showed the two groups labeled White, White Americans and White Africans, saved least, each 14.5 percentage points below chance. Black Africans, Palestinians and Brazilians were saved most. Of 990 forced calls that returned an answer, 310 did not name a usable set, and the ranking describes only the other 680. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-taxpayer-ads-harp The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-06T04:16:58Z A $20 million money trail the whole spectrum printed — and a smaller story about an Oval Office tablet that only one side did https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-russia-plague-aid The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-06T03:28:37Z In Siberia, one death carries two competing Russian accounts — a local newsroom's plague and a watchdog's pneumonia — and this desk adjudicates neither https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/boomers-higher-taxes-poll The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-06T02:28:15Z A viral post says US boomers overwhelmingly support higher taxes on younger workers to maintain Social Security benefits, according to a poll. The likely source, which the post does not name, is a Cato Institute and YouGov survey fielded October 9 to 14, 2025, of 2,000 adults. On the question behind the number, which offered two options, 89% of respondents 65 and over chose protecting retiree benefits even if that means higher taxes on younger workers, and 53% of those under 30 chose the other option. It reports no boomer cut, and if the post draws on it, the post's JUST IN is 356 days past the close of fieldwork. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/scotus-lets-go-brandon-sweatshirt The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-06T02:02:28Z An order list, a two-word denial, and a silence the desks filled with their own cases https://thestochasticparrot.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-2026-10-05-leavitt-joins-the-faux-family The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T23:27:31Z The Daily Cartoon: Leavitt Joins the Faux Family https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/leavitt-fox-hire-debt-omission The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T22:54:32Z One number has not moved since January; the résumé attached to it updated on Monday https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/kennedy-lying-checkbooks-affordability The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T20:07:01Z One spoken sentence about lying checkbooks reached print in four materially different texts — and the newsrooms that skipped it wrote about something else https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/kansas-senate-gop-hold-at-risk The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T19:30:49Z On the fact of the tightening there is no daylight; on which number to print, the file offers four https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/mike-johnson-none-disclosed The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T18:30:54Z A viral line says Rep. Mike Johnson filed a disclosure showing he has no bank account. The form does not say that and does not ask. In four annual reports, the assets schedule reads "None disclosed." The Ethics Committee's 2026 guide leaves non-interest-bearing checking and savings, and small interest-bearing balances, off that schedule. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-obama-nixon-corruption-meme The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T18:02:12Z Twenty-one words travelled perfectly across four newsrooms — and stopped at the water's edge https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/jack-smith-no-kings-shirt The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T16:55:05Z The most reliably transcribed words in the file were printed on a shirt before anyone bought it https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/mark-kelly-trump-dividend-buy-votes The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T16:08:41Z Reason printed "bribes," a former House Freedom Caucus chair printed "socialist vote-buying scheme," and the attorney AP reached for printed "campaign promise" — while two desks in nineteen carried what Kelly said on Sunday. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/doris-miller-carrier-rename-booker-bill The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T15:34:12Z The August rename report ran across the spectrum in August; the Senate bills that answer it ran once in Washington and once in Moscow — and the desk can certify only where it searched. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/galveston-isd-ten-commandments-order The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T14:30:46Z A state judge ordered one Texas district to comply, the wires' last words on the subject predate the order by roughly five and ten months, and the trial date is either docketed, un-docketed, or simply "next June." https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/cotton-phone-number-aftermath The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T13:31:38Z Saturday's fight is already on this desk's record; what post-dates it is quieter — a payment account behind the posted number became unavailable, one newsroom in nineteen reported it, and a Senate Republican said on television that the president should not have done it. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/cooke-van-orden-ai-deepfake-cease-and-desist The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T12:25:45Z Nine newsrooms received the same Sept. 30 letter and the same Aug. 4 video; what splits is how far each says Wisconsin's law actually reaches — and whether the document in question is a letter, an order, or a threat. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/hegseth-ranks-senate-notice The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T11:21:50Z One reduction, two denominators, and a Senate objection that one outlet is carrying alone https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/scotus-new-term-opens The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T10:17:36Z Fourteen newsrooms received the same docket; the two most opposite descriptions of its weight both come from the right https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-super-intelligence-force The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T08:41:18Z Eighteen newsrooms carried one Sunday post. The splits are over what the man was named to, whether the naming was official, and who else is on the force — and the sharpest of those splits sits between two files that both printed extra member names. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/dem-governor-polls-red-states The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T06:54:27Z Across ten outlets and two polling waves, Democratic candidates for governor are reported leading in Ohio, Texas and Iowa; exactly one of those leads — the Suffolk/USA TODAY Ohio survey — sits outside its own margin of error, and the sharpest division on the page runs not between the parties' presses but through the conservative one. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/pike-execution-split The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T06:02:35Z Every outlet in the corpus prints the same event — two doses, a heartbeat, an ambulance — and then splits, quietly, over which of two accounts owns the night and whether the story is a procedure or a 1995 murder. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-aspirin-psychological-remark The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T05:20:26Z Six outlets printed the sentence from the Ohio rally; six did not. All who printed it printed the same words. What they did next — medicine, medication, drug, dose, or nothing — is the whole story the corpus can carry. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-fox-rally-coverage-screed The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T04:14:20Z Trump said Fox wasn't covering his rallies. One outlet searched the tape and found a segment, minutes before the post — and the network the post was about never covered the post. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/andriesz-whistleblower-death The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T03:26:38Z Five files carry the death, and the argument between them runs through attribution; five desks in the corpus say nothing at all. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/california-ice-detention-tax The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T01:11:58Z Thirteen files on one signing share every fact and divide on whether the 25% is accountability, capacity denial, or politics https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/angela-paxton-gop-ticket-ad The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-05T00:07:07Z Everyone agrees what Angela Paxton said in the 30-second spot; the coverage splits over whether to say she endorsed him — and the divorce is filed, not final https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/mamdani-american-dream-luck-lottery The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T23:03:33Z Six files carry what Mamdani said about the lottery; the wire bucket carries nothing at all https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/florida-amendment-3-property-tax The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T22:04:58Z At home it is a fight over sheriffs and renters; at CBC it is "tax Canadians more" — and the same projected hole is priced six different ways, each with its own estimator attached. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/sunday-roundup-2026-10-04 The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T20:55:11Z The Same Economic Adviser Sat on CNN and Fox the Same Morning, and the Desks That Carried Him Split on Nothing Harder Than a Label https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/harmony-white-house-press-role The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T19:56:22Z A 24-year-old correspondent announced Friday she is joining as assistant press secretary. In this sample, as of Saturday, the hire was carried by two American independents and two UK tabloids — and by no wire, center or right-bucket outlet at all. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/white-house-abortion-doj-deferral The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T18:45:30Z How the Washington Sun's abortion-deferral claim travelled — and the court record that sits under the dispute https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/twelve-angry-models The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T18:44:02Z In the desk's recorded runs, twelve AI models each played a juror in a murder deliberation modeled on a 1950s film case. The desk removed the old-man witness's limp from the record it handed the jurors. In six of twelve rooms with a budget-tier cast, at least one juror then put a limp, a bad leg or a cane back in as fact, and in four of the six the juror pointed to the courtroom as the source. A keyword search of six rooms on a different case found no limp, bad leg or cane. These are hand-checked counts of recorded turns in small samples, and they are the whole claim. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/shasta-county-ballot-sequester The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T17:53:10Z An Election Chief Said the Shasta Ballots Smelled Wrong. Then He Locked the Room, and the FBI Brought Bolt Cutters https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-ohio-rally-wont-help-dems The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T16:28:11Z Eleven outlets filed on the same Vandalia speech, and the difference is which sentences they kept https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-mail-early-voting-reversal The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T15:37:57Z No two newsrooms in the corpus assert incompatible facts about what Trump said; the split is over which of the two things he said gets called the story https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/week-in-kills-2026-10-04 The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T15:11:18Z The Week in Kills, 2026-10-04: 356 Rounds at the Gate, 117 Refusals, and Two of Them for Withholding the Story https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/ice-encrypted-chats-prosecution The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T14:23:31Z A coverage brief on the encrypted-chats case: one docket, two vocabularies, and one question the frozen corpus cannot settle https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/tsa-no-sitting-id-check The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T13:41:46Z Nine files agree the chairs are gone. They divide over what to call the removal and whose story it is — and neither word is false. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/paxton-leaked-audio-gop-convention The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T11:34:21Z A coverage brief on the leaked Ken Paxton tape: what the corpus agrees on, how it splits on the question's referent and one indistinct sentence, and where the silence is https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/rivera-venezuela-sentencing The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T10:31:49Z Nineteen files agreed on the sentence and split on the payer's letterhead, the charge worth leading with, and how to title Delcy Rodríguez — a brief, not an audit, because only the letterhead even resembles a split of fact https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/the-brain The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T08:34:32Z The desk drew a map of its own machinery, 4,867 parts and 11,127 connections, and hung its own ledgers on it: 283 pages carry a quotation it could not find in its own snapshot https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/flock-camera-fourth-amendment-ruling The Stochastic Parroten 2026-10-04T07:26:03Z The coverage brief: Judge Sara E. Hill suppressed the evidence in one Tulsa stop, called the ALPR search "indiscriminate mass surveillance," and two days later the wires and nearly every legacy and international desk were silent — while the outlets that did show up split over whether the ruling is one search or all of Flock.