Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

It’s a long shot that this bill to eliminate dual citizenship in the US will pass but it sure is a sign of the next segment of debate on who counts as a US American www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/se...

If the news business wants young people to trust it, it needs to be honest about its failures, its limitations, and its power. At the very least it can help more people recognize that the news business is a business, one that is also sometimes a public service, and that often also does public harm.

There was a brief window when legacy media “discovered” they could acquire quick, discount talent by hiring people away from blogging. I benefitted! But if not for that… I don’t know. This business has not earned back lost trust from the 2000s, when these surveyed teens weren’t around.

I was on staff at my high school paper (technically I was the “features” editor). The 2000 election chaos, 9/11, the US lying its way into Iraq is what dominated the years of what would have been my early career, had I not come to the reasonable conclusion that the news biz then was not for me.

I’m not sure what to make of this survey, honestly? If you’re a young person in solidarity with Gaza, or against police killings, or you’re trans or queer, would you have reason to trust the news?

Around 10% of Meta's revenue comes from literal crime. That’s not a moderation failure, it's a business model. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I don't blame people for assuming there's no good, healthy version of online community. Anyone younger than me has probably never seen it. But it used to exist, I swear.

If approved, the Nexstar-Tenga merger would combine the nation's largest television-station conglomerate with its fourth largest. The deal also would violate the FCC's few remaining local-ownership limits in approximately 30 markets. Our statement:

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

A truly cool thing in American civic culture, we have very cute license plates in most states. This isn’t even the cutest from Oregon.

As I told a group at Cornell just yesterday, I think these AI Contributors are a betrayal of the promise of crowdsourced fact-checking. If the end is to democratize moderation - or as Tarleton Gillespie might put it to enhance the "voice of the governed" - this moves us in the opposite direction.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

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When people ask me how we can stop online scams, I point to THIS

Nov 5, 1965: The #1 song was the Beatles "Yesterday," and the public was first warned about burning fossil fuel. We haven't done sh*t to stop rising pollution and temperature from causing increasing catastrophe, but "Yesterday" is the most covered song of all time, so at least we still have that!

I am glad to see the shared joy and hope from so many today. It is great! We should celebrate! But remember @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s campaign team did a lot of work for a long time. Even in NYC this is just step 1. So get ready to do the work based on your unique local conditions.

This speech was excellent in style and Easter Eggs references. Too noteworthy points but my favorites were competence and compassion can coexist. Then at the end when he described Trump grew out of NYC tying Trumpism to city’s corrupt elite.

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From me: Trump is trying to bully Warner Bros. Discovery into accepting a merger bid from the MAGA-fied Paramount. There's a problem for him though: any state Attorney General can sue to block such a deal, which under current law is presumptively illegal. prospect.org/2025/10/30/f...

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

In a nearly illiterate editorial, WaPo defends Trump's ballroom project, without revealing the fact that the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, is a principal funder of the project. Shameful conduct all around. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Related - here’s a snapshot of Meta and the lender (Blue Owl) for its Louisiana data center trying to position themselves limit the damage if things implode. pitchbook.com/news/article...

The Dissent from 9th Circuit judge Susan Graber is powerful: “observers may be tempted to view the majority’s ruling, which accepts the government’s characterization of Portland as a war zone, as merely absurd. But today’s decision is not merely absurd. It erodes core constitutional principles”

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet" www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Thanks to the team at @savoirdevenir.bsky.social for organizing such an exceptional conference. It is without exaggeration that I will be digesting all the wonderful discussions for a while.

Getting lost in statistics about numbers and semantics about ideology misses real issue: This is no "grassroots" movement. It is externally funded and organised. Its network ALL have X blue ticks and Musk beamed in to incite violence. Stop the dark money and astroturfing. The rest will soon wither.

Lots of foreign examples popping up but we have had experiences like this in America before — the McCarthy Era, World War I, the Japanese internment during WWII. Never went well for the rest of civil liberties to put it mildly.

Ominous

I have just done a quick analysis of what the US media landscape would look like should Paramount SD's bid to takeover Warner Bros. Discovery go ahead. Paramount SD's market share would sore from ~10% of the $223B market to 26%. 1/

At @leadstories.com we've been debunking a stream of these. Seems like a network operating out of Vietnam churning out dozens of versions of the same stories using the same AI prompts but with different celebrities and locations inserted.

Make no mistake, the global turn toward authoritarianism is heavily oil-funded. drilled.media/news/casey-m...

This is a very real trap that journalists fall into: because a source or newsmaker is nice to you, you treat them favorably. It’s grooming. You’ve been groomed.

The reason Charlie Kirk is being lionized by so many journalists is simple: he was very good at cultivating journalists and it seems a lot of journalists don't seem to understand the concept of being cultivated as a pet reporter in exchange for scoops or leads. They think he was their friend.

The big problem is that a large swath of America had never heard of Kirk until yesterday. Every piece in major media about him is an introduction for many, and so conferring the sense of sainthood on him in the long run creates permission for the dangerous response I fear is coming.

Bear in mind this is the same paper that once went with “Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel …” in a profile piece. Different standards for how nuanced your obituary gets to be after your death; I wonder what the difference between Kirk and Brown is? 🤔

I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.

The procedural drama about Trump trying to change the Dept of Defense back to the Dept of War is so funny. Never in my life (and history since it changed its name to defense) has that department not been at war.

"Maintenir la supériorité évidente et innée de l'Occident." - Alex Karp, PDG de Palantir, interrogé sur la mission de l'entreprise, février 2025.

Good history lesson in this thread!

This is an example where the problem is not so much the capabilities of LLMs as it is the fact that we have independently normalized a widespread culture of acceptable lying

Assurance chômage, jours fériés, budget, services publics : le gouvernement fait le choix du passage en force. L’ensemble des organisations syndicales se retrouvent le 1er septembre pour organiser la mobilisation. Les travailleurs et les travailleuses ne se laisseront pas faire!

House Speaker Mike Johnson said if lawmakers wanted Epstein records released, they could have called for that during Joe Biden’s presidency. What did Democrats say before this year about releasing Epstein records or investigating the case?

This was a great discussion ! The full episode is perfect for a nice walk or commute.

Honestly guys if you're still paying for Spotify it's time to move on. You're literally paying for AI warfare: Spotify's Daniel Ek leads €600 million investment in AI military "defence" company share.google/8QTP4eriOoxd...

💯 (“This” in the post is referring to long history of right wing media dominance and why the left can’t just magically counter it)