Screenshot of Wired exposé detailing how an Indian college student had a lucrative side business making AI-generated hot MAGA girl content, which he also levereged into a money-making soft-core OnlyFans knock-off account — and that he generated nude images using X's GrokAI, even though that functionality is supposed to be forbidden.

Eye-opening investigation by @wired.com into the world of an Indian college student churning out lucrative, "hot MAGA girl" AI-generated slop — including lucrative nude images from Grok that he used to make money on an OnlyFans knock-off platform.

But also: ewww
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Nick's superchats look like this, so we used an AI tool to tally up the tips. His revenue spiked after the Tucker interview, from $60k a month to $100k. "People are fanatical" because they "feel conflicted and misunderstood like I do,” Nick told me wapo.st/4mERkhv

How to Verify Bystander Video From the Minneapolis shootings to the Guthrie kidnapping, visual investigation skills are now mandatory. Here's how to do it.

The truth about the killing of Renee Good & Alex Pretti by US immigration officers would likely have never been known without bystander video. But authenticating user-generated content in the age of context manipulation & AI deepfakes means video verification is a critical skill for journalists.

This is canon. But also George Gervin was the John the Baptist to Robinson's Messiah role.

‘Trump Says…’: The Journalistic Scourge of Echo-Chamber Headlines Time and time again, major news organizations have fallen victim to the trap of taking whatever was the latest thing to come out of Trump’s mouth and reflexively turning it into a stenographic, town-c...

I wrote about this shameful phenomenon back in 2018, when news org headlines first started deferentially repeating almost anything Trump said, before they had the handy packaging of Truth Social.
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A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.”

Also: it misquotes the Pope.

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Yea, exactly, US sports fans distinguish between the two and treat the mascotted individuals as it sounds, plural form. Which is why a pet peeve of mine is when people say: "I'm a Yankee fan" (oh really, which specific player do you only like lol?)

The editor in me is struck by how he has clearly absorbed foreign football coverage and code switches into UK/EU sports grammar using the plural verb form for the team name — "Arsenal are" — when I doubt he would ever say "New York are" if talking about the Knicks.

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

📊 Our Top 10 in Data Journalism this week features Atlatszo’s live tracking of Hungary’s election, South China Morning Post’s reconstruction of a deadly housing fire, and The Guardian’s analysis of Earth’s increasingly crowded satellite orbit.

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We at @gijn.org love a good "How We Did It." (We have a section on our site devoted to covering them: gijn.org/topic/how-th...).
Organized crime, corrupt politicians, and other bad actors routinely conspire, so reporters should also recognize the need to share tips, tradecraft, & lessons learned.

The African Investigative Journalist of the Year on Deep Dives, Funding, and ‘Paying Your Dues’ The award-winning South African investigative journalist says he spent years ‘in the wilderness’ digging into spreadsheets and paperwork to find his niche. The path led him to national scoops and noto...

For @gijn.org's 10 Questions series, today we talk to the 2025 African Investigative Journalist of the Year, Dewald van Rensburg.

DvR on the biggest challenge facing IJ: "Time and money. Most journalists have nothing remotely like the luxury of time we at @amabhungane.bsky.social are afforded."

Oh, absolutely. Cops and courts reporters are routinely working on deadlines and there's obviously no PIO working for defendants or their attorneys, which makes source capture by law enforcement de rigueur in many newsrooms.

Screenshot of the NYTimes story on how Trump's war on Iran is playing in conservative parts of the country, and which completely memory holes the massive millions of anti-Trump, anti-war protests in red and blue states just two weekends ago.

I'm sorry but this is pure journalistic negligence by @nytimes.com here.
The US just arguably experienced the biggest, nationwide demonstrations in its history two weeks ago — and there's no question one overriding message of the 3/28 protests was "No War with Iran."
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Screenshot of ProPublica story on how many of the arrests and prosecutions of anti-ICE protesters are based on flawed or false law enforcement claims and the cases have quickly fallen apart.

Law enforcement statements should always be treated with skepticism by reporters, but @propublica.org shows that claims by ICE & other agencies involved in Trump anti-immigrant sweeps deserve to be treated as totally unreliable without independent corroboration.

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🎥 In this masterclass video of #GIJNAcademy, Frederik Obermaier, co-founder of paper trail media and one of the journalists behind the Panama Papers, shares practical advice on how to investigate leaks.

GIJN Launches Global Academy of Investigative Journalism Our new project, GIJN Academy, will give access to journalists around the world to a wider range of training and networking opportunities, developing their skills to investigate stories of public inte...

Today, @gijn.org launches our latest ambitious effort to help build the next generation of investigative journalists.

With masterclass videos, free digital training, on-demand courses, webinars, mentorship programs, & more #GIJNAcademy aims to strengthen accountability reporting across the world.

Adding: I've long thought the WHCA Dinner was shot through with too many conflicts of interest to be worthwhile. But the idea of inviting *this* president, who will have sued many (most?) of the news orgs of those attending, to the event—even with a token gesture of outrage—really defies logic.

Screenshot of MS NOW post detailing all the many lawsuits Trump has filed against news organizations — all of them dismissed or otherwise failed — for daring to actually report on him, showing how he stands far and away as the most anti-free press president of the modern era.

After a federal judge just dismissed Trump's frivolous lawsuit against the @wsj.com for publishing his alleged birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, this @stevebenen.com column helpfully lays bare how Trump really is the most litigious, anti-free press POTUS of the modern era.
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Coming soon, @gijn.org will be launching an exciting new phase of our mission to help build the next generation of investigative journalists.

Check out our homepage on Monday to find out more… 👀

All crossover Mariners and Marcel Duchamp fans: Leave it as it is!

One thing that having a Public Editor did for the Times was to provide a mechanism to flag, interrogate, and seek accountability for such a myopic editorial breakdown.

But without that role, the paper doesn’t have to really explain itself (beyond this short note) or is compelled to improve/change.

Inside an East African Investigative Newsroom That Has Defied a Decade of Pressure Africa Uncensored has survived legal threats, intimidation, and politically motivated attacks on its funders to become a prominent force in Kenya’s investigative journalism landscape.

From our friends at @columjournreview.bsky.social:

An all too familiar tale these days… despite having to survive legal threats, intimidation, and politically motivated attacks on its funders, Africa Uncensored has become a prominent force in the continent's investigative journalism landscape.

Investigative journalism can also be about fun topics!

Check out @revealnews.org's Inconsequential Investigations series:
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Next Monday, we're launching our newest project to build the next generation of investigative journalists. Stay tuned...

Veteran Reporter Li Sipan on Censorship, the Great Firewall, and China’s Independent Media Landscape The investigative reporter was writing about sexual harassment years before #MeToo. We get her take on the recent metamorphoses in the country's information ecosystem.

In this insightful interview with @gijn.org regional editor Joey Qi, veteran Chinese reporter Li Sipan discusses the rise & fall of China's independent journalism, the impact of the 'Great Firewall,' and why she's still hopeful that accountability reporting is possible even if done from afar.

The massive firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo, which only used conventional ordnance, completely flattened those cities and expert analysis says resulted in more civilian casualties than the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Screenshot from GIJN story on the impact of the Panama Papers cross-border investigation 10 years later, with a former partner at one of the complicit law firms accepting his sentence for his crimes.

Very relevant today — @gijn.org with a look back 10 years on at the long-term impact of the #PanamaPapers investigation.

Here, a former partner at the main Panamanian law firm involved accepts his fate for his crimes, in a German court.

Accountability IS always possible.

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This is vindication for the investigative journalists who courageously exposed the horrific misconduct by Roberts-Smith—and who faced the most expensive defamation suit in AUS history yet proved their reporting.
Also, it’s a great reminder that accountability can still happen, even if years later.

"Just listen. Everything is going to be fine. You're very high right now. You will probably be that way for five more hours. Try taking some Vitamin B complex, Vitamin C complex.. if you have beer, go ahead and drink it."