AI browsers like OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet have ways of getting around paywalls and crawler restrictions to access publisher content. And sometimes, if they can't access an article, they'll just recreate it using 'digital breadcrumbs'

I wrote about the AI slop backlash and how platforms are starting to respond to it www.platformer.news/thursday-new...

A narrative war on #Ladakh is playing out on social media. Ladakh’s GenZ on one side -constrained by internet connectivity and social media algorithms & on the other side slickly produced videos by youth linked to BJP. Read our latest report ⬇️

I initially gave it six months but I guess I should have given it six days www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

A Meta AI chatbot impersonating #SushantSinghRajput spread conspiracy theories about his death — denied his suicide, named people as “killers,” and urged fans to seek “justice.” Meta has now removed it. Read Adrija Bose & Karen Rebelo's story www.boomlive.in/decode/meta-...

A DOJ study showing most domestic terrorism in the US comes from the far right is suddenly missing and replaced with a note saying DOJ is complying with Trump's executive order www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going to go after hate speech, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you, you treat me unfairly, you have hate in your heart. ABC paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech,

This must be the famous free speech absolutist brigade

Seventeen years after Louise was raped, Boston police told her they had a DNA match for her alleged rapist. But under Massachusetts state law, the case would be almost impossible to prosecute. With @wbur.org

If you've been following along for the last 6+ years, you're already familiar with Pratt: a man who masterminded a cruel, criminal scheme that enacted violence on hundreds of women, then kept heaping it on with years of threats and harassment that upended lives. www.vice.com/en/article/g...

The lethal strike on a boat in the Caribbean on Tuesday was a criminal attack on civilians, according to a high-ranking Pentagon official who spoke on the condition of anonymity Trump paved the way for the attack by firing the top legal authorities of the Army & Air Force earlier this year

Dear BlueSky, I picked you over dumpster fire X. Repost for good karma 🫶

India ranked 151st of 180 in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index. That many of the most important stories here came from independent, grant-supported reporting is no accident. My project for the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/how-journali...

This @reutersinstitute.bsky.social piece about how new algorithm-driven tools are degrading the welfare system in India – as well as the original reporting it rounds up – should be required reading for anyone covering government, policy or tech. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/how-journali...

During an inspiring three day workshop organized by @sahanaudupa.bsky.social, a group of expert researchers, practitioners and policy makers presented and discussed the results of their research about extreme speech on encrypted messaging platforms. 1/4

🚨 IMPORTANT REMINDER On Weds 26 March we'll be hosting AI and the Future of News 2025, a one-day conference featuring presentations and panel discussions with journalists and experts from around the world 🧵 Programme and speakers in thread 👉 Sign up now for join us online buff.ly/dEmIIrg

Meta deletes trans and nonbinary Messenger themes Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed. 🔗 www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

Today’s Platformer.news on Meta rolling up its fact-checking and loosening content moderation is a seriously good analysis of how the social media giant is creating “dire” safety risks around the world. www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch... @caseynewton.bsky.social

I interviewed director Payal Kapadia to understand how she used X - a dumpster fire platform to get more people to watch her film #AllWeImagineAsLight which seems to be the antithesis of it. boomlive.in/decode/how-f... My first story of 2025

I have a new piece out with @aisvarya17.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social in which we test how OpenAI's new search feature surfaces and attributes news content. Our findings were not promising for news publishers (1/9) www.cjr.org/tow_center/h...

The shift from billionaire-controlled social media to decentralized platforms like Bluesky offers a hopeful change on the internet 🔗 www.404media.co/the-great-mi...

🆕🚨Scammers are setting up fake Facebook pages of a Chandigarh kids' modelling agency, luring parents who hope to fulfil the modelling dreams of their kids. Then they target desperate families with Telegram investment scams. Hera Rizwan reports #Scams #ScamAlert www.boomlive.in/decode/insid...