OpenAI’s Sora let me create a fake eyewitness video of a fire at the UN building. It’s not perfect, but it’s certainly fast and good enough. The original came with a bouncing watermark which was easy to crop out. Good job everybody.
@sophiehnic.bsky.social
Digital investigations, AI and journalism • Co-founder https://bsky.app/profile/factcheck.afp.com, digitalcourses.afp.com• Ex Latin America correspondent, radio and TV producer and reporter in Europe • Paris-based
NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...
🗣️ It's that time of year! Applications just opened up for the next cohort of @newmarkjplus.bsky.social Executive Program in News Innovation & Leadership! If you are looking to uplevel your leadership skills, business acumen and network, look no further and apply now! 🏃🏽♀️
Newmark J+@newmarkjplus.bsky.social · last yr.📣 Applications are now OPEN for the next Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership cohort! Join media leaders worldwide in this year-long hybrid program designed to drive transformation in the news industry. Apply by May 2! ↓ www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/03/appl...
John Oliver on Meta’s decision to roll back fact-checking and content moderation youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo?...
Content Moderation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
We publish a new version (v0.84) of our verification plugin. It improves the keyframes file mode and assistant (both from @veraai_eu), archiving (from #DisinfoArchiving @factchecknet project) and includes a Japanese localization!
Subscribe for free to The Journalist's Toolbox newsletter: https://buff.ly/3UVphON It publishes every other Tuesday around 8 a.m. ET. It features tips, tricks and tools as well as a training video.
JournalistsToolbox.ai | Mike Reilley | Substack
Journalist's Toolbox (TM) AI shares tools, plug-ins, browser extensions and other artificial intelligence resources that are helpful to professional journalists, students, educators, marketers and…
buff.ly
Bellingcat is currently working with universities to develop open source investigation courses in various fields and creating student-led investigative hubs at those universities, which seems well timed.
what's old is new www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryan...
“Mark Changed The Rules”: How Facebook Went Easy On Alex Jones And Other Right-Wing Figures
Facebook’s rules to combat misinformation and hate speech are subject to the whims and political considerations of its CEO and his policy team leader.
buzzfeednews.com
“human-curated news offers something algorithms can’t replicate: the comfort of knowing that on the other side of your news, there’s a person who cares about what you read, not just what keeps you scrolling.” www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/to-h...
To hell with algorithms
"Audiences are embracing human-curated content delivered through both digital and analog channels."
niemanlab.org
Craig and I are teaching another course with @knightcenterut.bsky.social in January! New year, new skills. Join us:
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas@knightcenterut.bsky.social · 2y agoJoin @craigsilverman.bsky.social & @janelytv.bsky.social and learn to 🔎: - Verify and geolocate images/videos - Conduct background checks - Analyze digital footprints - Use AI tools for data analysis - And more! 🎁 Perfect for you or as a gift for a fellow journalist! https://bit.ly/4g2u88K
Tips for searching Bluesky - mostly the same operators as Twitter but there are a couple extra useful ones, including an API (remember those days?) bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky
Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!
bsky.social
New to Bluesky? We've created this starter pack with dozens of journalists, technologists and academic researchers who write regularly about the future of journalism worldwide. We hope you find it useful go.bsky.app/6r1SGfR