Roasting the Press Episode 77 for Sunday, June 29th, 2025
AI, “Roasting the Press” and the Future of Journalism plus Governor Ron Desantis Gives Permission To Run Over Protesters.
AI, “Roasting the Press” and the Future of Journalism
Tonight’s discussion begins with an overview of how Freedom Forum uses Grok, the AI component of social media platform “X,“ to collect data which is then compared with data from other sources and compiled into our weekly “Roasting the Press” episodes.
We normally begin by asking “Grok” the following:
You're a news producer tasked with producing the weekly "Roasting the Press" one hour vidcast (https://chuckblack.substack.com/t/roasting-the-press). What are the top Canadian and international news stories relating to propaganda of the week which should be covered?
Freedom Forum doesn’t just use Grok.
We also manually parse stories from a variety of social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Telegram plus collect weekly stories from most of the independent publisher listed in our December 27th, 2024 Freedom Forum post, “The 2025 Freedom Forum Listing of Import…



