{"id":1184,"date":"2026-07-27T21:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:09:06","slug":"ai-news-outlet-pushes-false-and-misleading-info-amid-new-mexico-flooding-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"AI \u201cNews\u201d Outlet Pushes False and Misleading Info Amid New Mexico Flooding Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a <\/span><\/i><i><span>quick donation<\/span><\/i><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1182\">DOJ Charges Alleged Cop City Activist Over \u201cDuress\u201d Password That Wipes Phone<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday announced emergency orders directing $500,000 to help with statewide flooding disasters, including in Gallup, where historic monsoon rains in McKinley County flooded streets, damaged homes and tested the city\u2019s aging drainage system. <\/p>\n<p>Leah March, a spokesperson for the governor\u2019s office, told <em>Source NM<\/em> in an email that the funding will provide sandbags, communications assistance and other help from the New Mexico National Guard. State officials also sent a team to Gallup on Friday to help with damage assessments, March said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state is working closely with local officials to get residents the help they need,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials said in addition to grappling with natural disasters, they were also responding to a new AI news outlet named Prism McKinley County that they say has regularly published false and misleading information in a time of crisis. <\/p>\n<p>For instance, within the last week, Prism published a story about a woman drowning in floods, but the death occurred last year, according to Matt Robinson, Gallup\u2019s tourism and marketing manager. The misleading story caused people to believe the recent floods caused her death, he said. The recent flooding has not caused any deaths or injuries, according to city officials. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re taking things that happened years ago that are negative, bringing them to light, scaring people, and sharing false information,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cIt\u2019s really not a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other misleading or false stories include one July 18 that reported that two women were robbed and beaten at a Walmart. The article goes on to say that the robbery actually occurred March 3, 2020, and Police Chief Erin Toadlena-Pablo told <em>Source NM<\/em> she does not know where the outlet got its information. <\/p>\n<p>Still, the article received roughly 250 shares and dozens of comments, most of which decried security concerns at the Walmart, which is one of the main grocery stores in town. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1180\">\u201cMegafires\u201d in France and Spain Force Over 350,000 People to Evacuate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The misleading posts prompted a Facebook post by the Gallup Police Department advising residents to use \u201cverified sources and\/or official government channels to obtain the most dependable information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robinson told <em>Source NM<\/em> that city officials decided to warn the public about the news outlet during a meeting last week that was otherwise devoted to responding to the floods and a massive water main break. <\/p>\n<p>Six additional Prism sites operate in New Mexico, according to the outlet\u2019s website, though only three appear to have social media accounts. Prism McKinley County, which launched in October, has the largest following of any of them with roughly 7,400 Facebook followers. <\/p>\n<p>Prism Media, an Israeli-based startup, first publicized its operations in May in a press release decrying the disappearance of local news outlets. Dekel Valtzer, who lists himself as Prism Media\u2019s co-founder and CEO on LinkedIn, did not respond to <em>Source NM<\/em>\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Mahadevan, the director of the Poynter Institute\u2019s digital media literacy project, told <em>Source NM<\/em> he has been monitoring Prism\u2019s growth across the country and said that the McKinley County example stands out because Prism appears to be basing its articles largely on Facebook posts. <\/p>\n<p>In other areas where Prism has launched, its articles are unattributed, recycled and sometimes false, but are at least based on reporting from other news organizations or credible sources, Mahadevan told <em>Source NM<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an interesting case where it does seem like it must be an actual news desert, and so they don\u2019t have good reporting to go off of,\u201d Mahadevan said of Prism McKinley County. \u201cSo they are stuck with siphoning news from Facebook, which any of us who\u2019ve been on Facebook in the past 10 years knows is probably a bad idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Gallup Independent<\/em>, the city\u2019s longtime daily newspaper and main source for news, closed in February after more than a century of operation. The town currently has a weekly newspaper, the <em>Gallup Sun<\/em>, and a monthly community magazine, the <em>Gallup Journey<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1178\">ICE Poised to Ramp Up Arrests of Haitians as Deportation Protections Set to End<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israel-based startup publicized its operations in a press release decrying the loss of local news outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AI \u201cNews\u201d Outlet Pushes False and Misleading Info Amid New Mexico Flooding Crisis - 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