Vox and Chatgpt

Vox.com and journalistic integrity
Created: 2025-11-12 | Last edited: 2025-11-12

I contacted Vox because their writers left link trackers in an article and seem to be using ChatGPT to shortcut research, which makes it impossible to trust the factual accuracy of their pieces. They didn’t reply to my email asking why the link contains a tracker.

vox article with ?utm_source=chatgpt.com as part of the link parameters

links to article: archive.org version original article link

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