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

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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...