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The Spin: the ‘Gouda news’, the ‘Bada news’ and the worse

Every month, The Spin maintains an account of mishaps in the world of communications. Here are some we noticed in February 2025.

Every month, The Spin maintains an account of mishaps in the world of communications. Here are some we noticed in February 2025.

The Super Bowl is a gift that keeps on giving. While The Spin looks forward to the blitz of advertisements and the annual ‘superb owl’ spike in Google Trends, a few of us keep an eye out for the inevitable gift of gaffes.
This year, The Spin spotted a Google Super Bowl commercial for its Gemini AI tool, which included an inaccurate statistic about Gouda cheese – that it accounts “for 50 to 60 per cent of the world’s cheese consumption”. While Google recreated the ad to fix the fact, and reposted the corrected ad, it wasn’t fast enough to stop the social media storm around it.
Many content creators called it out as a hallucination, but Google’s President of Cloud Applications Je


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