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Not that most of our outsourced manufacturing would fit with the right-wing vision of men’s work anyway: See this apparently Chinese-made A.I.-generated video that imagines Americans back at the jobs that went overseas a half-century ago.

Beneath all this A.I.-generated policymaking and culture-war posturing lies a real labor-market quandary: Men without college degrees have struggled to find good jobs or hold down any job at all, a phenomenon with some big downstream effects on politics and culture, up to and including the election of Donald Trump.

“I just stayed in a Marriott for a month, and I felt like such an a—. I was like, ‘There’s no cold plunge!’”

To spot false news or A.I.–generated visual content, media literacy experts and fact-checkers often advise readers to look out for vague or overly exaggerated language, inconsistencies in images such as mismatched shadows or unnatural proportions, and visuals that appear almost too perfect to be real.

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