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Tow Center for Digital Journalism

@towcenter.bsky.social

The Tow Center hosts a variety of research projects that explore the intersection of journalism and technology

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · 6d ago

New from Tow: One org requested all syllabuses for 74 courses at UNC Chapel Hill with terms related to DEI. Their mission to “expose and root out corruption in government..." They claim to have filed more than 100,000 FOIA requests and nearly 100 lawsuits since 2022 By @mirandagreen.bsky.social

How a network of pink-slime sites and conservative activists went after campus DEI.

Using FOIA requests and hidden-camera videos, the groups targeted universities, leading to the firing of faculty and staff.

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Sasha Chavkin@sashachavkin.bsky.social · 6d ago

One of the coolest parts of @theexamination.org's new Red Bull investigation was the creative technology and research tools we used. How computational journalists from @towcenter.bsky.social helped me identify a key source for the story 👇

How AI helped us uncover Red Bull’s influence on energy drink research

In our analysis of conflicts of interest in PubMed, we used an LLM to trace relationships between academics and companies – helping us discover more ties.

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The Examination@theexamination.org · 6d ago

For over a decade, @redbull.com funded studies that disputed the risks of consuming energy drinks and alcohol together — and research tied to the company has been used to roll back public health regulations in Canada and elsewhere. Read our latest investigation:

Is it safe to drink Red Bull and vodka? Dubious research tied to the company has shaped energy drink policy.

The company paid scientists whose studies largely found that mixing energy drinks and alcohol isn’t harmful, contrary to most research.

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · 6d ago

New from Tow: One org requested all syllabuses for 74 courses at UNC Chapel Hill with terms related to DEI. Their mission to “expose and root out corruption in government..." They claim to have filed more than 100,000 FOIA requests and nearly 100 lawsuits since 2022 By @mirandagreen.bsky.social

How a network of pink-slime sites and conservative activists went after campus DEI.

Using FOIA requests and hidden-camera videos, the groups targeted universities, leading to the firing of faculty and staff.

cjr.org

klaudia jaźwińska@klaudia.bsky.social · 2w ago

Latest updates to @towcenter.bsky.social's Deals & Disputes Tracker: 💰 OpenAI commits additional funding to the American Journalism Project ⚖️ News Corp countersues Brave AI, alleging copyright infringement tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

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klaudia jaźwińska@klaudia.bsky.social · 3w ago

🤝 Australia's Nine Entertainment entered an agreement with Microsoft that allows Copilot to reference the text of its content during AI searches to contextualize and "ground" outputs. Financial terms are not disclosed. tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · 3w ago

A Tow Center investigation analyzed three years of Restoration News coverage. What we found is a new kind of right-wing media that is openly funded by political donors, with a distribution network that reaches prominent politicians and the courts.

Inside Restoration News, a political nonprofit’s “newsroom.”

How a media outlet funded by conservative donors is “waging a permanent campaign to defeat the radical left.”

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · 4w ago

A Tow Center investigation analyzed three years of Restoration News coverage. What we found is a new kind of right-wing media that is openly funded by political donors, with a distribution network that reaches prominent politicians and the courts. www.cjr.org/tow_center/i...

Inside Restoration News, a political nonprofit’s “newsroom.”

How a media outlet funded by conservative donors is “waging a permanent campaign to defeat the radical left.”

cjr.org

Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · 4w ago

A Tow Center investigation analyzed three years of Restoration News coverage. What we found is a new kind of right-wing media that is openly funded by political donors, with a distribution network that reaches prominent politicians and the courts. www.cjr.org/tow_center/i...

Inside Restoration News, a political nonprofit’s “newsroom.”

How a media outlet funded by conservative donors is “waging a permanent campaign to defeat the radical left.”

cjr.org

Emily Bell@emilybell.bsky.social · 4w ago

At the @towcenter.bsky.social we have been tracing partisan outlets presenting as local news (on all sides of the political spectrum) since 2019, a phenomenon which only seems to be growing . It’s a model which redefines how we think about news, and also what counts as political campaigning

Columbia Journalism Review@columjournreview.bsky.social · 4w ago

How Restoration News, a media outlet funded by conservative donors, is “waging a permanent campaign to defeat the radical left,” by C.J. Robinson. www.cjr.org/tow_center/i...

Emily Bell@emilybell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What can we learn about where journalism and the rest of the knowledge economy is going from the recent economic history of the US ? Quite a bit - really enjoyed this discussion with the brilliant Kim Philips-Fein …

Columbia Journalism Review@columjournreview.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Will AI-free higher education become an experience available only to people in elite environments? Kim Phillips-Fein and @swajcmanearle.bsky.social join hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin on Journalism 2050. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Emily Bell@emilybell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Boo your commencement speakers who glorify AI by all means (we @towcenter.bsky.social might be inclined to do the same) - but is the ‘tech free space’ in danger of becoming an elite preserve?

Columbia Journalism Review@columjournreview.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Will AI-free higher education become an experience available only to people in elite environments? Kim Phillips-Fein and @swajcmanearle.bsky.social join hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin on Journalism 2050. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...