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NiemanLab: “Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications. ..The Wayback Machine, an initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive, has been archiving the webpages of news outlets — alongside millions of other websites — for nearly three decades. Earlier this month, it announced that it will soon archive its …
EFF Social Media Monitoring: “Social media includes some of the most intimate details of our lives, including our health information, likes and dislikes, political views and religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and people with whom we associate. Its content includes usernames, bios, contact information, status updates, comments, photos, videos and streams, event postings, friend or follower …
BBC: “New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and scale was …
Via LLRX – The remarkable rise of eBird – the world’s biggest citizen science project – eBird is the flagship program of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, located in Ithaca, New York state. Everyone uses eBird. Program Manager Darryl Jones describes why.
Wired: ” You never know when you’re going to have to bug out on short notice. The politics of the moment are less than predictable. Disasters never strike on schedule, and few stores stay open for a hurricane or an insurrection. That’s why it’s important to make plans well in advance and put together gear …
Northwestern Medill Local News Initiative 2025 State of Local News Report: Two Decades of Data, Deserts and Dynamic Change. “Twenty years of data, one overarching headline: transformation. With this State of Local News Report, Medill has two decades of data on local news outlets across America. And over the span of that time, the historic …
AP News: “OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, on Tuesday, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions. Making its popular AI chatbot a gateway to online searches could allow OpenAI, the world’s most valuable startup, to pull in more internet …
Law Dork: “Photos obtained exclusively by Law Dork on Tuesday show that President Donald Trump is completely demolishing the East Wing of the White House as part of his stated plan to build a ballroom befitting his standards on the White House grounds. Although Trump earlier had said the ballroom “won’t interfere with the current …
The New York Times Gift Article includes dozens of images: “…Mr. Trump has posted A.I.-generated images or videos at least 62 times on his Truth Social account since late 2022, according to a review by The New York Times of his posts to the social network. The fake imagery has included blistering attacks on his …
