AI Misinformation Coverage Is Moving Too Fast

The institutional problem is triage, not awareness. Underwood's warning lands because the newsroom incentive runs toward the vivid example: the fake claim that proves a social fear, the synthetic artifact that confirms a prior suspicion, the viral prediction that turns into a headline before it becomes a checked claim ^[1]. Eil's framing supplies the missing constraint: AI is not replacing an older misinformation beat, it is adding load to one already crowded by politics, scams, trust collapse, and media literacy . Editors who cannot slow the pitch meeting will keep…