Wonderful to see a really artful/ useful application of AI tools to a news archive. (Also super cool that it started in @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Lede program …h/t @dangerscarf.bsky.social )

The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.

NEW: Emails obtained by @wired.com show how a small conservative group was instrumental in FCC chair Brendan Carr's actions against Jimmy Kimmel. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/the-fc...

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self:

the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

Easter = busy time for Drs

…. Point of law…Impersonating a doctor is illegal whereas impersonating Jesus isn’t

www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/2...

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

Judge Dismisses Trump’s Suit Against The Wall Street Journal The judge said President Trump had not “plausibly alleged” that The Journal published the article with actual malice.

Big libel defeat… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...

Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation. Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what an Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters,
@megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials.

(Published Dec. 2025)

The Next Coup Attempt And How to Stop It

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

Yes agree - everyone uses AI to some extent - and it can introduce real opportunities . But it is *also* inherently part of the design of certain models - and products - to just not be fine tuned on citation

An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work - Poynter Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos

Nota News - sold as solving the ‘news deserts’ problem with AI - stories for $10 each! - was in fact stealing and regurgitating work from local journalists and it seems *other newsroom clients* using its tools. Excellent reporting @angelanfu.bsky.social for Poynter www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

Unfortunate Clubhouse coded acquisition. Who better to comment on AI companies…than AI companies themselves!

I feel like Bluesky has had an unfollow bug. Just refollowing a bunch of accounts I definitely followed

Recommended for a nuanced examination of the history of genetic testing and fascism

Are there any good scholarly or legal papers by constitutional lawyers about where the line is drawn between reckless incompetence, self- enrichment and say treason?

This is a great thread - every use of AI in any article should (imo) be accompanied by any disclosure of marketing/licensing agreements with said AI companies by the publisher or author, plus whether those licensing agreements include further agreements to ‘integrate AI tools’ into workflows

An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned The incident is yet another example of volunteer Wikipedia editors fighting to keep the world’s largest repository of human knowledge free of AI-generated slop.

A coda to my last column: another AI agent has been banned for angry blogging: www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-...

New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

A New History, and Pre-History, of Rightwing Media A.J. Bauer’s new book ‘Making the Liberal Media’ takes a long view of conservative ire toward the mainstream press.

A nice and unexpected review of my book in The Progressive.

Tomorrow is the formal release date!

progressive.org/latest/a-new...

I genuinely believe a lot of writers do not realize (though they should) that AI tools which suggest edits and summaries are not independently sentient ….they are using someone else’s work. (Just say no kids)

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia

www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

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Iran War Is Pushing Consumers to Break Up With Fossil Fuels EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps, now cheaper than ever, are becoming more attractive as the conflict upends oil and gas markets.

New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

If you get an email from me - which is vanishingly unlikely given my current work schedule - check it has not come from inbox.ru …..which is definitely not me

The cafe that stays open til 7 is 🙏 (one of the better things about the US - diners!)

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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...

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…..

Sora shuts down, the Metaverse is binned, a court decides Meta, Google are guilty in social media addiction trial, AOC says AI sucks…..a big week in the accountability renaissance