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“A new report from Democracy Forward, The Second Front: The Escalating Right-Wing Legal Threats Beyond the White House, reveals the perilous threats to American democracy represented by the far-right legal movement. The report, part of Democracy Forward’s work to track the far-right legal movement, focuses attention on ways that extremists continue to deprive Americans of …
The Verge – no paywall: “In the days that followed the US and Israel’s joint military strike on Iran on Saturday, floods of images and videos that supposedly document the war have appeared online. Some are old or depict unrelated conflicts, are made or manipulated with AI, and in some cases, are actually taken from …
The Daily Docket – A newsletter by Reuters and Westlaw: “Reuters uncovered a broader‑than‑previously known Trump administration effort to gain federal control over elections, historically run locally, in at least eight states – using investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID. What happened In January, a DHS agent sought unredacted …
The Developer: “The newly unsealed indictment against former FBI Director James Comey shows the Justice Department has charged him with two counts tied to his May 15, 2025 Instagram post showing seashells arranged as “86 47.” The case was filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina and names Comey as “James Brien Comey Jr.” Read the full indictment …
For the first time in the history of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. In 25 years, the average score of all 180 countries and territories surveyed in the Index has never been so …
The Evolving News Landscape: Comparing media habits and trust between teens and adults is the latest study from the Media Insight Project, a collaboration of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, the American Press Institute, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and the Local News Network at the University …
MakeUseOf: “Your ISP can see everything you do online. Every site, search, and click is diligently logged by the company that provides your internet connection, logging your online presence. Maybe it’s for analysis, but maybe it’s waiting to be sold to the highest bidder at a later date. The good news is that you don’t …
Wired – no paywall: “For its famous intractability, the Bloomberg Terminal has long inspired devotion, bordering on obsession. Among traders, the ability to chart a path through the software’s dizzying scrolls of numbers and text to isolate far-flung information is the mark of a seasoned professional. But as a greater mass of data is fed …
Taylor Lorenz – “I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all. Lately it feels like I’m encountering more and more AI-generated content on Substack. This mirrors patterns across the broader web. Last fall, media …
Licensed to Loot – Big Finance, Big Tech and the AI Infrastructure Grab: I. Introduction: A manufactured market. The global race to build AI data centres is a manufactured investment cycle. Consumer demand did not create it and no credible case for economy-wide benefit underpins it. It is built by concentrated financial capital in alliance …
404 Media – “Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips. Faculty and scholars I spoke to whose lectures are included in Atomic are disturbed …
Dean Blundell: “The $400 Million Question: Was Trump’s “Privately Funded” Ballroom Always Headed for Your Wallet? On July 31, 2025, Donald Trump made a promise. He was going to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the East Wing of the White House — a venue grand enough for state dinners, presidential inaugurations, and the kind of …
