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‘Cheers,’ ‘Taxi’ Showrunner Ken Estin and Mentalist Banachek Take Psychic Fraud Series ‘Psychic Predators’ From Taiwan Creative Content Fest to American Film Market (EXCLUSIVE)

Two-time Emmy winner Ken Estin, showrunner of “Taxi” and “Cheers,” is steering “Psychic Predators,” a paranormal dramatic comedy starring mentalist Banachek as himself. Organic Media Group (OMG) unveiled the series at Taiwan Creative...

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Truth score: 42 (Limited corroboration) Propaganda risk: 0 Trending: Low Sources: 1 Reliability: 78 Bias severity: 0 Risk: 0Sentiment: -100Sensationalism: 8 Amplification: 0

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Crime and Justice
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Americans Lost $4 Million To Fake Psychic Plot, Prosecutors Say

Thousands of Americans were allegedly duped by letters from fake psychics promising a financial windfall.

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Truth score: 40 (Limited corroboration) Propaganda risk: 0 Trending: Low Sources: 1 Reliability: 70 Bias severity: 0 Risk: 0Sentiment: 0Sensationalism: 0 Amplification: 0

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Technology
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AI has come for the psychics’ jobs and they are not happy about it

AI psychic apps are drawing pushback from human practitioners, with some advertising AI-free readings. Others are being invited to train digital doubles that could serve clients while they’re offline and share the revenue.

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Truth score: 38 (Weakly supported) Propaganda risk: 0 Trending: Low Sources: 1 Reliability: 65 Bias severity: 0 Risk: 0Sentiment: 0Sensationalism: 0 Amplification: 0

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Culture
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20 sci-fi tropes, judged from psychics to AI uprisings on how close they are to real

Cracked ranks 20 sci-fi tropes by how close each is to coming true, from psychics and space pirates to robots and AI uprisings.

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Truth score: 40 (Limited corroboration) Propaganda risk: 0 Trending: Low Sources: 1 Reliability: 72 Bias severity: 0 Risk: 0Sentiment: 0Sensationalism: 0 Amplification: 0

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