Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong? Unlike other libel or slander suits, these cases seek to define content that was not created by human beings as defamatory — a novel concept that has captivated some legal experts. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?

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An outlawed app remains in the Google and Apple app stores, and almost one in two Americans continues using an app so risky that it’s banned on military, federal and most state government workers’ phones. Huh. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...

Opinion | Whatever Happened to the TikTok Ban?

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Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid requested by Trump. The bill must be signed into law by midnight Friday for the proposed rescissions to kick in. If Congress doesn’t act by then, the spending stands. apnews.com/article/trum...

Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid requested by Trump

The Senate has passed Donald Trump’s request to cancel about $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting spending, moving forward on one of the president’s top priorities despite concerns from s...

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Love these shorts @netjmc.bsky.social produces for her podcast! Here's a snippet of our wide-ranging conversation lnkd.in/exTRQ655). In it, we focus on how people consume information today and touch on press freedom. Hope you'll find it of interest! www.youtube.com/shorts/Z8nrH...

Democracy Depends on the Media — But Is It Failing?

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My latest for @dcnorg.bsky.social is about why media needs to get involved in women's sports. Now. So grateful to @michellemanafy.bsky.social or letting me write about a subject I'm so passionate about and a pleasure to talk to François Godard, Danni Moore and Megan Feringa and get their insights.

Women’s sports are hot. Media: don’t miss your shot

July 31, 2022 is a historic date for soccer fans in England. It’s the date on which they saw their women’s team win the Euros on home soil, becoming the

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Personally, I adore it when some teen or 20-something explains technology to me as if they are spoon feeding me tepid porridge www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Jane and I had such an interesting conversation! Really pleased to be part of her podcast series which is focused on being an active participant in shaping the future we want. Here, we focus on the need for the media to shape the way in which AI evolves.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, the US-based press freedom charity, has directed a British law firm to set up a legal entity in the UK, in part as a precautionary measure against potential executive orders targeting American nonprofits. www.semafor.com/article/06/1...

Fearing Trump action, US nonprofits seek shelter in the UK

Several American nonprofits are exploring setting up legal entities in Britain, in part as a precautionary measure against feared executive orders.

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As the LA protests stretched into their fifth day on Tuesday, social media creators have at times outnumbered the traditional press corps at rallies and played an outsize role in sharing media about what has happened on the ground -- blurring the line between reporting and advocacy.

Los Angeles Protests Amplified by Influencers and Online Creators

Creators such as Cam Higby, who is conservative, have sometimes outnumbered traditional media outlets at the immigration protests. Their posts have gone viral.

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So much this 👉 "to fully realize A.I.’s benefits, we need to find and fix the dangers before they find us...Without a clear plan for a federal response, a moratorium would give us the worst of both worlds — no ability for states to act, and no national policy as a backstop."

Opinion | Anthropic C.E.O.: Don’t Let A.I. Companies off the Hook

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If ads can be personalized, how long before we get completely personalized news, created in the moment, based on what we know and what we care about - and is that a good thing or a bad thing? Some thoughts @semafor.com : www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

If AI can personalize ads, why not news?

A future where AI can create content on the fly will upend news and the news industry.

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This is such a good read "I imagine that if we weren’t on display all the time, our friendships and interactions could be less commodified." (and less performative) "I assume that before the social internet people behaved in more authentic and idiosyncratic ways."

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Why am I filled with nostalgia for a pre-internet age I never knew? | Isabel Brooks

"The European Union would become a world leader in stopping kids from using social media under a new proposal gaining traction in Brussels."

Europe’s effort to block kids from social media gathers pace

Document obtained by POLITICO shows countries pushing for EU-wide controls to protect kids online.

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I'm with them on this one: Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds

Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

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👀 PR pros have discovered how to influence the chatbots: Talk to a journalist www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

PR pros have discovered how to influence the chatbots: Talk to a journalist

The public relations business is poised for a resurgence in the AI age. It just needs someone to write the stories.

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Men dominate the top of the podcasting charts. But there has been a surge of podcasts made by women, for women, too. And a company called Dear Media is at the center of much of it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/b...

Is This the ‘Manosphere’ for Women?

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WhAt cOuLd pOsSiBlY Go wRoNg?!?! Google Plans to Roll Out Its A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13 The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/t...

Google Plans to Roll Out Its A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13

The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.

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Good Night World

Misinformation Monday: White House Edition

Facebook allows scam ads that steal journalists’ identities to proliferate. The US tech giant profits from fraudulent adverts that steal the identities of high-profile individuals, such as reputable financial journalists, to exploit their reputations for honesty and financial expertise.

Facebook allows scam ads stealing journalists' identities to proliferate

Meta has allowed scam investment sites purporting to be run by high-profile journalists to proliferate on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp.

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Public media defenders say rural audiences would be hit the hardest if funding was cut from NPR and PBS stations. In very remote areas without broadband access, public radio and TV are among the few sources of news and entertainment. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/b...

White House to Ask Congress to Rescind $1.1 Billion From NPR and PBS

Trump administration officials want legislators to rescind $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides some support for public media.

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What happens to health research when ‘women’ is a banned word? Federal funding cuts are shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks — all because they "focus on gender." 19thnews.org/2025/03/wome...

What happens to health research when 'women' is a banned word?

Trump's federal funding cuts are shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks — all because they focus on gender.

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World History Encyclopedia CEO Jan van der Crabben saw his site show up in Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. Then traffic dropped 25%. www.bigtechnology.com/p/as-ai-take...

As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What’s Next

World History Encyclopedia CEO Jan van der Crabben saw his site show up in Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. Then traffic dropped 25%.

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The President asked for input on the formulation of its AI Action Plan. You guessed it: We have thoughts

Copyright and AI: a win win

In terms of public policy debates, Artificial Intelligence continues to be the belle of the ball with nearly every major government courting the industry

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Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · last yr.

The Founding Fathers expressly gave authority to Congress to protect the rights of original content creators because they recognized the value of original works to the betterment of the United States. They were right, then and now. /10

The story of a Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. The brutal truth: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit and thus incentivized to keep people trapped in a nightmare limbo

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting March 28. If that doesn't give you pause, remember that this device already saved kids' interactions without permission & was found to routinely have employees listen to voice samples [and watch people's videos in another incident]

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

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UK Folk: The Guardian wants to hear from people who are changing the way they consume news and explore why and how news consumption habits are changing www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Tell us how you have changed the way you consume news in the UK

We would like to hear from people who have noticed a change in their news consumption habits

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A new report details that the click-through rates for AI chat bots are 95.7% lower than traditional Google search, with a referral rate of just 0.37%. tollbit.com/bots/24q4/

“When the very institutions that made American innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore. It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist.”

Johannes Ernst@j12t.org · last yr.

Mike Masnick is exactly correct. And it’s not just that tech journalism has to be about democracy these days, but building tech products has to be, too. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... /cc @mmasnick.bsky.social

The streaming revolution has been something of a disaster for classic movies. It has, in fact, been slowly and methodically wiping the collective culture’s memory of anything made before about 1973 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

How Streaming Is Making Us All Cinema-Illiterate

The oldest title available on Netflix last month was 1973’s 'The Sting.' Where does that leave the next generation of film lovers?

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