There's more to journalism than page views but sometimes it doesn't feel that way.
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The Guardian US expects to hit $44m in reader donations in US/Canada this year, up 33% YoY, per New York Magazine. Editor Betsy Reed said: âThe world is incredibly interested in the shitshow here. God, itâs like theyâre rubbernecking at a car crash.â
Truth Social is where the man who thinks he runs the country announces his latest move. X is where the man who actually runs the country gets his ideas for the president's next move. Threads is where people proudly resist both of them by patronizing a different billionaire who agrees with whatever the president says. Bluesky is where people are absolutely furious with the president's latest move and know exactly who to blame: the headline writers at the New York Times. Facebook is where people think the president's latest move was opening a casino for dolphins in Gaza with Jesus and they love it.
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Self-styled âTariff Manâ shocks Wall Street with tariffs
www.ft.com/content/ae3c89a8-bf12-4d...
Beyond parody.
I feel like at some point the media needs to stop covering these announcements without actually using them. Can it actually do these things? has anyone seen them do it? How many times did it take to get it right?
New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...
From my story today: A company protected from bipartisan law due to a presidentâs self-interest would be âpolitical capitalism, not all that different from Asian or Middle Eastern dictatorships. You want to do business, you cut in members of the royal family" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The TikTok ban isn't just a platform reconfiguration, it will reshape the political leaning of the creator economy and permanently alter whose voices get heard online. Please read my story
www.usermag.co/p/the-great-...
open! network!
users don't have to rebuild their following all over again each time they switch to a different app, so platforms can't lock them in
developers can bootstrap new social apps off an existing social graph of 27M+ people
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The internet is now five websites owned by three people and all of them are awful
New: Days after Meta had to kill its AI-generated profiles due to backlash, some Instagram users are now being shown AI-generated images of themselves that are being automatically created by Instagram and put in their feeds
www.404media.co/instagram-be...
Only in Trumpâs America does Zuckerberg utterly cave to the demands of an unelected wannabe government censor and call it protecting free expression www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...
screencap of an incredibly obvious usps parcel phishing scam
an actually useful feature for Apple Intelligence would be to identify these incredibly obvious scams from the half-dozen obvious tells it's a scam and then alert the user in the summary "hey this is a scam" so obviously it doesn't do that
The BBC needs to have a debate about whether Musk's outbursts should keep leading the news.
This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them.
Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda
Tower Hamlets council want to shut down a 100-year-old weightlifting club but donât seem to be able to explain exactly why. www.bbc.com/news/article... #london
i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess todayâs itâs just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...
NEW: Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
"[âŚ] the unintelligent use of AI in newsrooms, which is becoming widespread â namely that we are in danger of 'producing more and understanding less'."
Not just newsrooms imo. This applies to anyone or any org using AI to create or alter content of any type. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As someone who has also had a spinal fusion operation (mine was cervical) and years of horrific pain, I think the x-ray photo on his profile is far more important in understanding the shooter's motivations for attacking a health insurance CEO than any retweeting activity or Goodreads reviews.
In that article, I wrote about my best friend who died of cystic fibrosis when Iâand sheâwas 25. In an article I wrote for VICE, I explained that I blame Americaâs health insurance system for her death. She lived the vast majority of her life before Obamacare existed and was at times dropped from insurance in between jobs for her preexisting condition. She regularly had to skip medicine or treatments she needed to live because she could not afford them or because her insurance would not cover them or because she did not have insurance. Getting those medicines was like the worldâs most time consuming and frustrating monthly puzzle. I remember for a while she was getting medication from an online pharmacy that had games and surveys you could play to get small discounts on prescriptions. She did those games every month to save a few dollars not because she wanted to save a few dollars but because she had to do them to literally afford her medicine. She looked into getting medication that was cheaper in Canada but could not navigate the system. She died 11 years ago. Millions of people died under a similar health insurance regime before her and millions of people have died under the same system after her. Her death fucked up my world and I have never been the same.
Here @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes his friend was filling out surveys/games to get few dollars off essential medication. People are outpouring their "horrendous, inhumane, heartbreaking experiences with a profit-driven, private American healthcare system" www.404media.co/behind-the-b...
Exclusive: Gregg Wallaceâs ghostwriter Shannon Kyle tells me the TV presenter âsexually harassedâ her
Full interview #Newsnight 1030pm
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
