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 Law360 mandates reporters use AI "bias" detection on all stories

The policy was announced after an executive accused the newsroom of
bias in its Trump administration coverage.

A new policy at Law360, the legal news service owned by LexisNexis,
requires that every story pass through an AI-powered "bias" detection
tool before publication.

The Law360 Union, which represents over 200 editorial staffers across
the 350-person newsroom, has denounced the mandate since it went into
effect in mid-May. On June 17, unit chair Hailey Konnath sent a
petition to management calling for the tool to be made "completely
voluntary."

"As journalists, we should be trusted to select our own tools of the
trade to do our information-gathering, reporting and editing -- not
pressured to use unproven technology against our will," reads the
petition, which was signed by over 90% of the union.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/law360-mandates-reporters-use-ai-bias-detection-on-all-stories/

Is It Racist To 'Call A Spade A Spade'?

What happens when a perfectly innocuous phrase takes on a more
sinister meaning over time?

Case in point, the expression "to call a spade a spade." For almost
half a millennium, the phrase has served as a demand to "tell it like
it is." It is only in the past century that the phrase began to
acquire a negative, racial overtone.

Historians trace the origins of the expression to the Greek phrase "to
call a fig a fig and a trough a trough." Exactly who was the first
author of "to call a trough a trough" is lost to history. Some
attribute it to Aristophanes, while others attribute it to the
playwright Menander. The Greek historian Plutarch (who died in A.D.
120) used it in Moralia. The blogger Matt Colvin, who has a Ph.D. in
Greek literature, recently pointed out that the original Greek
expression was very likely vulgar in nature and that the "figs" and
"troughs" in question were double entendres.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/19/224183763/is-it-racist-to-call-a-spade-a-spade