Google’s attempts to repackage news are encroaching on publishers. As a cofounder of WTF Is SEO?, an industry newsletter, has observed: “A growing sentiment is that Google is not a partner but a competitor.”
@cj-robinson.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/tow_center/t...
Google’s attempts to repackage news are encroaching on publishers. As a cofounder of WTF Is SEO?, an industry newsletter, has observed: “A growing sentiment is that Google is not a partner but a competitor.” Read C.J. Robinson for @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/t...
Tech companies say that LLMs work better if they remember things about you. But people may find themselves “insulated from the truth by the very tools they use to seek it.”
@aisvarya17.bsky.social for Tow and @columjournreview.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/tow_center/c...
Tech companies say that LLMs work better if they remember things about you. But people may find themselves “insulated from the truth by the very tools they use to seek it.” Read Aisvarya Chandrasekar of the @towcenter.bsky.social www.cjr.org/tow_center/c...
A European journalist apologized for using AI to fabricate quotes—including from me. But there’s little accountability in blaming a chatbot, writes @emilybell.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/d...
Mediahuis is a company that boasted about going ‘all in’ on AI …then it suspended one of its most senior editors for doing just that…..
Polymarket and Kalshi are quickly making deals with news publishers, with potential implications for the regulation of prediction markets. It’s unclear how journalism wins. @klaudia.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/tow_center/t...
Polymarket and Kalshi are quickly making deals with news publishers, with potential implications for the regulation of prediction markets. It’s unclear how journalism wins. Read Klaudia Jaźwińska. www.cjr.org/tow_center/t...
There is zero reason for any credible news organisation to do a deal with Polymarket or Kalshi. Here are some concrete reasons NOT to - new analysis from @towcenter.bsky.social show how far reaching and false Polymarket ‘affiliate’ accounts are
www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...
“News” accounts tied to betting markets are filling a demand for breaking news on X with false, misleading and unattributed claims. New analysis by @cj-robinson.bsky.social of @towcenter.bsky.social.
Read more:
www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...
Polymarket affiliate accounts peddling this misinformation attract over 3X as many impressions as the official Polymarket feed, @towcenter.bsky.social finds. @nytimes.com reported that the official account also published hundreds of false and misleading posts.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/t...
We have really top notch computational journalists at @towcenter.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social …here is @cj-robinson.bsky.social with new research on the dangerous Polymarket grift infecting news integrity
At the heart of this problem lies the original sin of the relationship between platforms and publishers. The haste of publishers to think that, when a technology company presents itself as providing "help" to journalism, this is in fact what it is doing. In nearly every example I can think of, the opposite has been the case. While executives paid far more than editors lectured newsrooms about trust being the "number one problem" for journalism, and shoveled money into underwriting research that "proved" this, their own aim was to borrow the authority of reporting without paying for it, and to create products that washed away the foundations of fact in a tide of cash.
AI companies - ‘helping’ journalism…. by borrowing authority without bothering to fix citation . Me in CJR www.cjr.org/tow_center/d...
As Polymarket pushes to be seen as a legitimate source of information, “news” accounts tied to betting markets are spreading misinformation. A new analysis by @cj-robinson.bsky.social tracks how Polymarket is amplifying news far beyond its own X account.
www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...
When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway.
@klaudia.bsky.social @aisvarya17.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...
When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway. Read @klaudia.bsky.social and @aisvarya17.bsky.social of @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...
Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future. @joshih.bsky.social of Mill Media and Vanan Murugesan of the Sahan Journal join @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin on this week's Journalism 2050. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Mending local news in a crisis: How nonprofit and for-profit business models can complement each other when big-money media fails. Read @emilybell.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/m...
On Wikipedia, an army of humans provide clarification and updates, in dialogue with one another. Many of Grok’s processes are still largely invisible. It’s also unclear how much Musk can affect its decisions. Read @cj-robinson.bsky.social for @towcenter.bsky.social.
Grokipedia does allow humans to suggest changes to its content. But according to a new analysis from the @towcenter.bsky.social, something has shifted: suggestions are increasingly being submitted from Grok to itself. Read @cj-robinson.bsky.social www.cjr.org/tow_center/g...
So...Grok is editing Grok to make Grokipedia
Until recently, Grok was the "editor" of Grokipedia, but most of the edits were submitted by users. Now, most of the proposed edits are initiated by Grok.
New analysis by @cj-robinson.bsky.social at @towcenter.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/tow_center/g...
We unpack the roots of the current US approach to media policy via the gateway of the Gawker trial
Outlier Media Reimagines What Local News Can Be. @sarahalvarez.bsky.social and @cande313.bsky.social join hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin on a new episode of Journalism 2050. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
A pink slime publisher used govt records to target liberal politicians and publish personally identifying details about small-town residents who spoke up at school board hearings, writes Miranda Green.
FOIA’s systemic problems meet partisan robo-requests. “Every year it gets harder to get the government to give information, and it’s only going to get worse." Read C.J. Robinson. www.cjr.org/tow_center/t...
In the past year, Metric Media filed more than 9,000 FOIA requests across all 50 states, according to an investigation for the Tow Center by @mirandagreen.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...
My latest investigation, and first in a series for @towcenter.bsky.social
: How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA
In the past year, we found a news-appearing network called Metric Media filed more than nine thousand Freedom of Information Act requests across all fifty states.
Very interesting new work from my @towcenter.bsky.social colleagues - building on excellent @wired.com article on LLMs and breaking news. Who is making decisions on when to ‘turn on’ web search for chatbots and when not to? www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...
