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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...
NEW on @indicator.media:
I found a group of X accounts that worked together to remove Community Notes from British Conservative Party accounts during the 2024 UK general election.
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
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excited to be joining The Upshot in June as a 2026-27 New York Times fellow!
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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...
“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:
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Dispatches from X: new story from me on how betting market affiliates are posting about news. Several viral posts were misleading, lacked credible sourcing, or were just wrong.
The Upshot is hiring a data graphics/multimedia editor. Come work with us and make weird things that help people understand the world!
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We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda.
The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court.
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schedule screenshot of nicar sessions on automating mass scraping with ai and clustering and mapping text data for journalism on friday, march 6
speaking at two #NICAR26 sessions with some wonderful @towcenter.bsky.social colleagues! come say hi!
The world feels quite precarious right now—and sometimes we forget what it feels like to pursue happiness. @alv9n.com digs into a study that asked more than 10,000 people to share their joy. From personal growth to friends and family, here’s our happiness mapped.
pudding.cool/2026/02/happ...
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
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I found an AI-generated podcast network that has published 350,000 episodes in the past month. That's 11,000 episodes a day, or about one year's worth of audio content.
You'll be shocked to find out it's not generating original material.
Here's the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsH_...
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
Last week I speculated that by the end of the year a majority of “helpful” Community Notes on X could be AI-generated.
To monitor this sorry milestone (and rate my forecasting abilities), I decided to build a free dashboard that tracks the share of AI notes. Check it out on @indicator.media
grok is submitting edits to itself on grokipedia. it's not the biggest fan of its own suggestions!
A new survey shows that state Freedom of Information coalitions offer public records request support but a majority of journalists and other requesters are “not sure” what is available.
www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
X has taken one more step towards handing Community Notes over to the machines.
I understand the motive and don't even think it is net negative from a quality perspective.
But for a project meant to bring content moderation into the hands of users, this is the wrong direction of travel.
The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know.
Save this one and reshare it please! 📊
new newsletter out today around the state of the FOIA system today -- take a read, and check out @mirandagreen.bsky.social's look into partisan FOIAs, using data we collect at the Tow Center!
In the past year, Metric Media filed more than 9,000 FOIA requests across all 50 states, according to an investigation by Miranda Green and the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...
🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?"
We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity)
📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps
📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok
📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“I think there’s kind of a universal consensus here in Minneapolis that we really would like the streamers to leave”
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