What’s Sora 2 like, you ask? Well, got to see SpongeBob as Hitler

“But they’re all criminals for coming here illegally.” Being undocumented in the United States is a civil infraction. If someone is undocumented, without having committed any other crimes, they’re not a criminal. Here's important facts to combat ICE talking points: lni.media/p/how-to-tal...

doing news videos is really a catch-22: if you are good at it, top brass think it's easy and try to replicate cheaply it without your help (i.e. WP never once asked for my help with Ventures) if you're bad at it, or it's not working, they shut all of it down without trying to fix it

we're suing ICE, and your support makes this fight possible: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

props to @usatoday.com's new chatbot for entertaining my query about god punishing dabo swinney

“One of these days I’m going to follow through on the Clav threat.” Thank you @themountaingoats.bsky.social for a joyful respite from this hell we’re living in.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

“When you exit a big company and you start your own thing, there's no going back,” veteran media reporter Oliver Darcy told Poynter Report Podcast host Tom Jones. “You are on your own. It's sink or swim. And that's a daunting feeling for sure. “ Watch the full episode: poynter.org/commentary/2...

Just realized I am 1/1 on Meta's Community Notes

AI is so awesome

Benny Johnson has a long history of bending the truth or flat-out lying to fit a narrative. I had the bad luck of working with him for two years. He’s a bad person with no moral compass.

Finally buying @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI, and someone's selling an AI-generated rip-off of it. Amazon is so cooked

lol they’re asking GPT 5 for a eulogy cc @drewharwell.com

Was looking for a local news story based on a convo I had with a park ranger in WNC and came across the strangest phrase I’ve ever read. Competing with real local news!!

I wrote about Ichiro as a player, a legend, and a stand-up comic. I don't imagine it'll spoil anything for me to say here that I think he's the coolest and most interesting baseball player I've ever seen. defector.com/ichiro-saved...

Normal weather

So glad for the chance to talk about media literacy and our current news environment with Lisa Ann Pinkerton on Earthlings 2.0, The Podcast. Thanks for having me! www.linkedin.com/posts/earthl...

This is awful. But I’m still upset about the fake Unicorns reunion album

It is a very scary time to be a brown guy in America

I may sound like a boomer, but I do feel like it’s bad that <25s are taking Hims for all sorts of vanity related maladies, injecting testosterone and chewing on rubber balls

Are you exploring #AI issues and #ethics in journalism? We have two pages full of resources for you on The Journalist's Toolbox Guides and article: journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-tools-and... Ethics/law: journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-and-ethics/

I kinda sorta got the dril “racism dial” tweet into @politifact.bsky.social 😎 www.politifact.com/article/2025...

Linda Yaccarino cites Community Notes among two "groundbreaking innovations" X undertook on her watch. The only problem: It was up and running well before she or Elon Musk took over.

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My new issue: The @politifact.bsky.social bot I built is so desperate to fact-check tweets using PolitiFact links that it's started making them up!

Some viral video compilations are not really showing the July 4 flash flooding. Here's how to spot fake videos after natural disasters: buff.ly/bhV5iNR

First big issue as I have my Community Notes bot up and running. The bot — powered by Grok — uses a pink slime news site to spread misinformation about a rescue in Kerrville, Texas.

Regular reminder that we can all tell you used AI

No LLM will ever be able to repeatedly smash its head into its keyboard and scream at terminal window until something somehow clicks

Just found out that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, written around 1948, describes a "versificator" that composes the words for songs "entirely by mechanicsl means" simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/n...

This is the nut graf. Healy’s explanation does not at all match the angle of the story. As the director of a media and news literacy organization these types of blunders make my job fundamentally more difficult.

Hm, I wonder why they're doing this? (I know this looks like dogshit)

I left Turkey a day before Erdoğan had Ekrem İmamoğlu arrested. I had a spent a few days with Turkish academics, and they were not very optimistic about the direction of the U.S.

This is really, really good!

lol AI slop strikes again. This time a fake new unicorns album

More than 125 free training videos for journalists on the Journalist's Toolbox AI YouTube page. Most of the videos run 5-15 minutes long and include a hands-on exercise ...

Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.

3/ Almost 3x as many people said they would go to a fact-checking website to verify news they saw online compared to going to an AI chatbot. Whether that matches behavior or not, it's a sign that most people don't want to report trusting AI to verify information

checking in on my authenticator app this morning. I don’t need to authenticate anything, I just wanna see what zany numbers that thing is cookin up

I whittled down the best AI based fact-checkers small enough to fit in a GPT and now it's free to everyone. It represents months of thinking how to build LLM fact-checkers and a painful night of figuring out what to rip out of it. And somehow it still works! open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...

In 2019, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reappointed the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of Minnesota state legislators to a workforce development board. Conservatives baselessly said that implicated Walz in the killing.

The absolute softest guys on the planet think they are the new paradigm of masculinity lmao

Gift link? The only gift link I’m trying to see is a good kielbasa with some sauerkraut on a roll, am I right folks

OK, popped over to the Meta AI feed again and... what is happening

Much like the old days of scrolling the Midjourney discord, a fascinating look at the human psyche

Relying on faulty information from AI chatbots, social media users claimed California Gov. Gavin Newsom had shared photos of military personnel taken in 2021 as if they were from 2025. The chatbots were wrong; the photos are from 2025. buff.ly/2yh8GoG

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.