Whether it's Google News or Apple News or Wikipedia, too often the media outlets defined as "reliable sources" are the elitist liberal sources. People cruising their phones or digging into search engines are force-fed NPR, CNN, NBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times. Conservative sites are classified as unreliable. Wikipedia smeared NewsBusters as "unreliable."   MRC's Free Speech America director Michael Morris and FSA staff writer Tom Olohan joined the show to discuss how the aggregators carefully select only the most liberal sources for your "news" diet on your cell phone or your internet browsers. Tom found Google News, Microsoft’s MSN, Yahoo! News and AOL News largely hid the scandals related to Democrat candidates in key election races across America, only allowing a total of 14 stories mentioning the scandals to be published on their sites out of 2,240 prominently placed stories they pushed in the four weeks leading to election day. We discussed their other recent\ findings: X-owner Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok endorsed Virginia Democrat candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and even a few local offices, while recommending zero Republicans. As part of this unabashedly partisan answer, Grok boasted that “These recommendations prioritize progressive policies on education, affordability, and equity.” Grok made zero mention of Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general, Jay Jones’ text message scandal. Big Tech behemoths have gone to great lengths to promote Wikipedia. Now, Google has been busted actively suppressing an emerging competitor. Google Search offered an outrageous response to users searching for Musk’s creation: “Did you mean: Wikipedia?” Immediately below this, Google taunted users with the least impartial source possible: a Wikipedia article on Grokipedia. Wikipedia editors greenlit the Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera, giving a pass to Hamas defenders on the same “reliable sources” list that MRC Free Speech America exposed earlier this year, which at the time effectively blacklisted every right-of-center source on the AllSides Media Bias Chart while approving the vast majority of radical leftist and elitist media sources. In fact, editors cited Al Jazeera 139,754 times across Wikipedia, including 48,229 citations for Al Jazeera’s English-language content. On its “Reliable sources/Perennial sources” page, Wikipedia editors outrageously called the overtly biased publication “generally reliable.” However, Wikipedia editors made a tepid concession to reality: “Most editors seem to agree that Al Jazeera English and especially Al Jazeera Arabic are biased sources on the Arab–Israeli conflict and on topics for which the Qatari government has a conflict of interest.” Google News is the only major Big Tech news aggregator that consistently highlights Al Jazeera, a network so sympathetic to radicalism that MRC’s Dan Schneider refers to it as “Hamas News.” Google propped up the leftist Qatari-funded media outlet Al Jazeera a staggering 15 times in recent weeks. Headlines like this on October 7, 2025: “Updates: Israel’s genocide continues in Gaza two years since start of war.” By the way, while Wikipedia's "reliable sources" page touts MSNBC, Mother Jones, and The Nation as reliable, this is the Wikipedia entry on MRC on the Reliable Sources page: “There is consensus that the Media Research Center and its subdivisions (e.g. CNSNews.com, MRCTV, and NewsBusters) are generally unreliable for factual reporting. Some editors believe these sources publish false or fabricated information.”  Outrageous! Enjoy the podcast below, or the audio is here. We'll reliably notify you of all the annoying leftist messaging that passes for "news."

The No. 1 country song in America right now was not written in Nashville or Texas or even L.A. It came from code. “Walk My Walk,” the AI-generated single by the AI artist Breaking Rust, hit the top spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, and if you listen to it without knowing that fact, you would swear a real singer lived the pain he is describing.Except there is no “he.” There is no lived experience. There is no soul behind the voice dominating the country music charts.If a machine can imitate the soul, then what is the soul?I will admit it: I enjoy some AI music. Some of it is very good. And that leaves us with a question that is no longer science fiction. If a machine can fake being human this well, what does it mean to be human?A new world of artificial experienceThis is not just about one song. We are walking straight into a technological moment that will reshape everyday life.Elon Musk said recently that we may not even have phones in five years. Instead, we will carry a small device that listens, anticipates, and creates — a personal AI agent that knows what we want to hear before we ask. It will make the music, the news, the podcasts, the stories. We already live in digital bubbles. Soon, those bubbles might become our own private worlds.If an algorithm can write a hit country song about hardship and perseverance without a shred of actual experience, then the deeper question becomes unavoidable: If a machine can imitate the soul, then what is the soul?What machines can never doA machine can produce, and soon it may produce better than we can. It can calculate faster than any human mind. It can rearrange the notes and words of a thousand human songs into something that sounds real enough to fool millions.But it cannot care. It cannot love. It cannot choose right and wrong. It cannot forgive because it cannot be hurt. It cannot stand between a child and danger. It cannot walk through sorrow.A machine can imitate the sound of suffering. It cannot suffer.The difference is the soul. The divine spark. The thing God breathed into man that no code will ever have. Only humans can take pain and let it grow into compassion. Only humans can take fear and turn it into courage. Only humans can rebuild their lives after losing everything. Only humans hear the whisper inside, the divine voice that says, “Live for something greater.”We are building artificial minds. We are not building artificial life.Questions that define usAnd as these artificial minds grow sharper, as their tools become more convincing, the right response is not panic. It is to ask the oldest and most important questions.Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of freedom? What is worth defending? What is worth sacrificing for?That answer is not found in a lab or a server rack. It is found in that mysterious place inside each of us where reason meets faith, where suffering becomes wisdom, where God reminds us we are more than flesh and more than thought. We are not accidents. We are not circuits. We are not replaceable.RELATED: AI can fake a face — but not a soul Seong Joon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images The miracle machines can never copyBeing human is not about what we can produce. Machines will outproduce us. That is not the question. Being human is about what we can choose. We can choose to love even when it costs us something. We can choose to sacrifice when it is not easy. We can choose to tell the truth when the world rewards lies. We can choose to stand when everyone else bows. We can create because something inside us will not rest until we do.An AI content generator can borrow our melodies, echo our stories, and dress itself up like a human soul, but it cannot carry grief across a lifetime. It cannot forgive an enemy. It cannot experience wonder. It cannot look at a broken world and say, “I am going to build again.”The age of machines is rising. And if we do not know who we are, we will shrink. But if we use this moment to remember what makes us human, it will help us to become better, because the one thing no algorithm will ever recreate is the miracle that we exist at all — the miracle of the human soul.Want more from Glenn Beck? Get Glenn's FREE email newsletter with his latest insights, top stories, show prep, and more delivered to your inbox.

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