This week, 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social talks to researchers Hal Triedman and Tingwei Zhang about how marketing companies are poisoning AI search results by manipulating Reddit. And yeah, it's really just that simple. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG8...

Earthquakes of the magnitude of the ones in Venezuela aren't rare - so why have these ones caused so much destruction? New analysis from the @news.sky.com Data x Forensics team by myself and the brilliant @kaitlintosh.bsky.social Read here: news.sky.com/story/venezu...

Heatwave temperatures are set to become the new normal in many UK regions due to global warming – is yours one of them? Check out the interactive map in my latest for @news.sky.com to see what the UK's Met Office predicts for your local area: news.sky.com/story/heatwa...

Heatwave temperatures set to become the new normal in many UK regions – is yours one of them?

Areas in the south and east of England are most likely to be the worst affected by global warming, according to Met Office data.

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When you ask ChatGPT or any popular LLM to tell you a story, one name keeps coming up: "Elias Thorne." Depending which chatbot you ask, he's a lighthousekeeper, clockmaker or explorer. His stories are also flooding Amazon's AI-generated book market, YouTube slop, and fake news. Who is he?

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...

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I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

"There are over 25,000 candidates competing for just 5,000 seats - giving voters an "unprecedented" level of choice in one of the most hotly-contested local elections in history." Our candidate data underpins this Sky News story by @alicjahagopian.bsky.social . news.sky.com/story/local-...

Local elections could see council seats won on record-low vote shares

Political fragmentation ahead of this week's local elections could see council seats being won with minimal vote share, say leading political scientists.

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Another nom for @zakvescera.bsky.social, @kateschneider.bsky.social and @writermjs.bsky.social's collab on the BC Energy Regulator! @carlypenrose.bsky.social got 1 for her work on Crestview's mysterious Rwanda office! And +1 for my collab with Michelle Ghoussoub about research misconduct at UBC!

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The IJF has picked up three nominations in the Digital Publishing Awards, bringing to eight the number of times our journalism has been nominated for recognition in the last two weeks. zurl.co/6aRRV

The IJF has picked up three nominations in the Digital Publishing Awards, bringing to eight the number of times our journalism has been nominated for recognition in the last two weeks. zurl.co/6aRRV

'I look at the sky in a different way': Iranians reflect on life under bombardment amid tenuous ceasefire

'I look at the sky in a different way': Iranians reflect on life under bombardment amid tenuous ceasefire

You are about to read a rare and extraordinarily frank account of a woman's life in Tehran during the recent US-Israeli bombardment.

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SCOOP: An investigation by The Narwhal and Point Source shows LNG Canada burned 350 million cubic metres of gas in 2025, making it one of the worst polluters for flaring emissions globally and undermining Canada’s environmental claims. @writermjs.bsky.social #lng thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-b...

LNG Canada exceeds estimated 2024 global record for burned gas | The Narwhal

LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., burned more gas in 2025 than any other liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on record in 2024

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Grateful and honoured to find out that my past reporting with The Narwhal's @writermjs.bsky.social and my former @theijf.org colleague @zakvescera.bsky.social has been nominated for the Canadian Journalism Foundation's Award for Excellence in Journalism!

Bethany Lindsay@bethanylindsay.bsky.social · 4mo ago

More great news for @theijf.org! Our collaboration with The Narwhal has been nominated for a Dr. Eric Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism. Major congratulations to @kateschneider.bsky.social, @zakvescera.bsky.social and @writermjs.bsky.social. theijf.org/article/ijf-...

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals have secured a majority government, winning all three of Monday’s by-elections and full control of the House of Commons www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Liberals secure majority government with sweep of three by-elections

Danielle Martin is projected to win in University-Rosedale, while Liberal candidate Doly Begum has been declared the winner in Scarborough Southwest

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As Trump threatens to leave NATO, @news.sky.com analysis from myself & @smassam.bsky.social finds the US heavily relies on its allies to counter Russia in the Arctic. Our video with Tom Cheshire & produced/edited by @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social: news.sky.com/video/the-ra...

Why Donald Trump needs NATO to defend the Arctic

Data and forensics correspondent Tom Cheshire looks at the fast-unfolding front line developing against a backdrop of snow and ice and why the territory is so important to global powers.

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11 year old Alireza Jafari was killed while ‘on duty’ at a Basij checkpoint in Tehran. Tom Cheshire, Tara Kangarlou and I discussed child recruitment and how Annoa Abekah-Mensah and I geolocated and verified the strikes on checkpoints - you can watch here: youtu.be/T3cna7VuxHg?...

Civilian casualties or child soldiers? - Sky News uncovers potential war crimes in Iran | Iran war

YouTube video by Sky News

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Israeli strikes before the ceasefire took out key railway lines in Iran, analysis by myself and @smassam.bsky.social shows - read more: news.sky.com/story/iran-w...

Civilian casualties or child soldiers? Sky News uncovers potential war crimes in Iran

Civilian casualties or child soldiers? Sky News uncovers potential war crimes in Iran

Exclusive analysis shows there have been 19 strikes on Basij checkpoints in the Iranian capital alone, and the Basij themselves are actively recruiting children to 'defend their homeland'.

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There are two big problems with the triple lock One: it makes future spending impossible to predict. If we keep it, pension spending by 2050 could be a just a little higher than it is now. Or, if we have anything like recent volatility, it could be tens of billions higher. 1/5

How much is your council tax rising as government funding changes?

How much is your council tax rising as government funding changes?

Some households in England are about to see exceptionally high council tax rises as the government reforms local authority funding.

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The Ontario government will introduce legislation that would exempt the Premier, cabinet ministers and their offices from having to respond to freedom of information requests, allowing them to keep documents and emails about their decision-making secret. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ontario to introduce bill exempting Premier, cabinet from FOI requests

Government’s proposed changes follow its loss of court battle over call logs for Ford’s personal cellphone

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CANADA WINS! Mitch Marner, big-game superstar. 4-3 Canada. Unreal game.

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right

X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right

Sky's Tom Cheshire explains how Elon Musk's X is boosting the British right.

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EPI researcher @robbiemaris.bsky.social spoke to @kateschneider.bsky.social about T Level uptake, dropout rates, and the qualification’s ongoing challenges and successes.

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A-level results show deepening inequality despite vows to tackle attainment gaps

BREAKING: At least 67 Palestinians have been killed and scores more injured while waiting for aid in Gaza, according to hospital officials Read more ⬇️ news.sky.com/story/at-lea...

At least 67 killed while waiting for aid in Gaza, officials say

At least 67 Palestinians have been killed and scores more were injured while waiting for aid in Gaza, according to hospital officials.

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Tesla faces the loss of billions of dollars in government subsidies, following Musk's fallout with Trump. Subsidies have been central to its success but it now faces a risk of gaps in its future earnings. Sky's Paul Kelso and Kate Schneider discuss. 🎧 trib.al/vPdCJUA

Could we be heading for a drought so bad we have to queue for water on the street?

Could we be heading for a drought so bad we have to queue for water on the street?

Could we be heading for a drought that's so bad we have to queue for water at communal taps out on the street?

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We started this investigation🔎in fields looking through other people's waste. Our target was really simple but we had no idea if it would be possible. Find who did the fly tips! 🗑️

Brand new story from @seabrookclimate.bsky.social and me: Heatwave likely killed 263 people in London, study estimates news.sky.com/story/heatwa...

Heatwave likely killed 263 people in London, study estimates

Two thirds of the deaths would not have happened without climate change, which made temperatures in London almost 4C higher, according to the analysis.

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Breaking news: President Donald Trump said Saturday that U.S. warplanes carried out strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, calling the attack “successful” and saying the aircraft had departed Iranian airspace.

Israel-Iran live updates: U.S. warplanes carry out strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, Trump says, calling the attack ‘successful’

The B-2 is the only U.S. aircraft able to carry the bunker-busting bombs thought to be capable of penetrating Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment facility.

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