Including presentations on reconnecting citizens, by our postdoc researchers @irenepsychari.bsky.social and Callum Craig of @fujomedia.bsky.social

Resilient Media EU@remedeu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

✉️ 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧... #ReMeD consortium partners are pleased to invite you to attend ReMeD’s final event! 📅 13 February 2026 🕛 9.00 - 18.00 📍 Press Club Brussels Europe ✍ Registration & programme: lnkd.in/eAJK_DFC

I was very happy to sign this timely call for the protection of our vital public service media. It'll be interesting to see the response... fujomedia.eu/news/more-th...

FuJo | Hollowing Out Public Service Media

More than 50 media academics from across Ireland signed a joint statement highlighting the d...

fujomedia.eu

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Meta's decision the slash fact-checking and move towards Community Notes in the US is now being reviewed for where else to implement this. The Oversight Board has been asked to issue an opinion. An opinion on where to (not) implement a poor policy... www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...

Board to Review Meta’s Plans to Expand Community Notes

The Oversight Board has accepted Meta’s request for a policy advisory opinion on its approach to expanding its community notes program outside of the United States.

oversightboard.com

Launched as a competitor to Wikipedia, Elon Musk's #Grokipedia is one of the first LLM-based attempts to create an encyclopaedia. @gildersleve.uk finds it compares poorly to Wikipedia, but the latter faces challenges as AI tools cannibalise its content and audiences. @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

Grokipedia falls flat, but AI is already rewriting Wikipedia’s future - Impact of Social Sciences

Launched as a competitor to Wikipedia, Grokipedia is one of the first LLM based encyclopaedias, but how does it compare to the last best place on the internet?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Including, '...false news circulated in Ireland that the country now has a larger population of Muslims than people who live in designated Irish-speaking areas' (debunked at www.thejournal.ie/more-muslims...) by @stemcdermott.bsky.social

European Digital Media Observatory@edmo-eu.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 With the launch of several #genAI tools this year, the share of AI-generated #disinformation has reached the highest share ever recorded by our monitoring. 🔍 Read our monthly brief to learn more about how #AI is being weaponised & see for yourself what #factcheckers from our network found 👇

We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."

ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules

OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission

theguardian.com

Who gets to say what in the news... an AI answer to 'elite-official' sourcing?

Columbia Journalism Review@columjournreview.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Building a quote-detection tool for accountability in journalism. Read Bette Dam, Dhrumil Mehta, Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen, Tory Lysik and Sthavir Murthy from the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/t...

📢 New Press Release: Data Protection Commission statement on LinkedIn AI Training 🔗 www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...

15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

Far more significant than the podcast is Ivan Yates working with a national broadcaster Newstalk as a pundit when he was working for FF as an advisor ...surely the regulator has something to say about this ? www.newstalk.com/podcasts/cal.... #Spéirghorm

Calling It | Newstalk

Ivan Yates and Seán Defoe analyse the Presidential Election, reviewing candidates, the state of their campaigns, and predicting who will be moving into the ...

newstalk.com

@remedeu.bsky.social has an interesting event coming up, based on a study of fact-checkers in which we ran Irish interviews. Relevant to policy-makers, media organisations and practitioners, civil society organizations, academics, students and interested citizens. resilientmedia.eu?p=1899

ONLINE POLICY FORUM – Content moderation for democratic resilience: policy recommendations from a European study of fact-checkers – Wednesday 12 November 2025, 14.30-15.30 CET

resilientmedia.eu

Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers. The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes. Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??

"go to TikTok. See for yourself."

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

n.pr

Postdoctoral researchers Irene Psychari and Callum Craig guiding participants through the @remedeu.bsky.social @fujomedia.bsky.social Citizen Lab on toxic news, held earlier this week in partnership with @imec-smit.bsky.social. Many thanks to all who took part so productively over two days!

Is this a new chapter in how knowledge circulates?

Nature@nature.com · 11mo ago

Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines go.nature.com/3J82tYH

We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are. This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight. 1000s watching, commenters believing it.

45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds

45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds

Global meat and dairy production's environmental footprint dwarfs that of all EU member states and the UK combined, according to a new report.

euobserver.com

So many species are being eliminated by the greed of some humans that we have entered an era of extinction that resembles the death of the dinosaurs. We are part of nature and every loss diminishes us www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer

Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding

theguardian.com

When administrators try to soft-pedal censorship of student press by cutting only the print edition, they are reminding us that paper is the medium of liberatory potential.

"If the conductor is far-right and you’re reacting to it, you cannot decide which music should be playing.”

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo ago

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

⏱ There's still time to have your say on our draft #MediaPluralism Policy. It outlines the importance of public service media, quality journalism, informed choice and inclusion in the media landscape. This important public #consultation is open until 5pm on 24 October 2025 - see below for more...

Public consultation on our draft Media Pluralism Policy now open - Coimisiún na Meán

Coimisiún na Meán has today (1 September 2025) opened a public consultation on its draft Media Pluralism Policy. The Policy is intended to provide clarity on Coimisiún na Meán’s understanding of media...

cnam.ie

Deletion of Jim Gavin ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Liz Carolan: Deleting of ‘Jim Gavin for President’ ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture

Campaign history will be wiped out as providers of digital political ads press delete on their archives

irishtimes.com

Bari Weiss has officially been announced as the editor in chief of CBS News. “She’s not a reporter; she’s never been in the field,” a 60 Minutes producer told Adam Piore for a recent profile of CBS. “Talk about controversies.” www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...

For the past year, journalists at CBS News have been up against extraordinary pressure. The network reached a tipping point.

“Who would have thought this is the piece that would get me fired?” Bill Owens, the former executive producer of 60 Minutes, said in the screening room. For the past year, CBS journalists have been up...

cjr.org

So sad. A tragic loss for Irish culture and journalism.

TG4@tg4.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Manchán 🕯️

"Fish kills, polluted drinking water, declining wildlife populations, and increased emissions are a direct result of politicians’ policy decisions". www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Catherine Conlon: We are choosing business over nature every single time

Fish kills, polluted drinking water, declining wildlife populations, and increased emissions are a direct result of politicians’ policy decisions

irishexaminer.com

“Every photo is not just for history. It’s for my family, my neighbors, my people.”

“They Fear Our Lenses”: Gaza Photojournalists Speak Out

Photographers in Gaza risk their lives to witness the war. Their images speak louder than the critics trying to discredit them.

interc.pt