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Josh Axelrod
Nieman Lab
30 days ago
The Gen Z newsroom covering Europe (and ruffling some continental feathers along the way)
www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...
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The Gen Z newsroom covering Europe (and ruffling some continental feathers along the way)
Like all Cinderella stories, thereâs an urgent carriage-to-pumpkin timeline looming for The European Correspondent.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-gen-z-newsroom-covering-europe-and-ruffling-some-continental-feathers-along-the-way/
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Josh Axelrod
Nieman Lab
2 months ago
âNews media is about to change,â
@larsadriangiske.bsky.social
said. âThe article as we know it may not be the preferred format of readers or listeners or viewers in the years to come. People are getting used to generative ecosystems, and that wonât change.â
www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-...
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The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI
"If we sit on the sideline and observe, I think the risk is too high that we are gonna be left behind."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-good-the-bad-and-the-completely-made-up-newsrooms-on-wrestling-accurate-answers-out-of-ai/
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Mike Ananny
2 months ago
Great
@niemanlab.org
piece from
@joshaxelrod.bsky.social
reviewing nuances & tradeoffs of using GenAI in news work, quoting from & describing the work of several different publishers.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-...
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The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI
"If we sit on the sideline and observe, I think the risk is too high that we are gonna be left behind."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-good-the-bad-and-the-completely-made-up-newsrooms-on-wrestling-accurate-answers-out-of-ai/
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Flora Graham
7 months ago
All credit to
@joshaxelrod.bsky.social
and his marvellous âNature Briefing: AI & Roboticsâ, who first recommended this gem of a story!
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a reminder, since trump is repeating his bizarre claims about wind power: there is absolutely ZERO scientific evidence that offshore wind turbines are killing whales
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No, Offshore Wind Isnât Whatâs Killing Whales
Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesnât support those claimsâat all
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whales-are-dying-but-not-from-offshore-wind/
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Julianne McShane
10 months ago
good time to read this:
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add a skeleton here at some point
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Julianne McShane
10 months ago
A thing Elon Musk actually said (in a national German newspaper) when trying to argue that Germany's AfD party isn't that bad: The party's leader "has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Come on!"
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk doubles down on his support for Germanyâs ultra-right party
He publishes a German op-ed calling AfD "the last spark of hope for this country."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/elon-musk-tweeet-germany-afd-far-right-party-nazi-support-die-welt-op-ed/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=d153d4c8-0c6e-4721-a7c3-93c05d13209a&utm_campaign=Hootsuite
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the second news dropped about the magdeburg christmas market attack, the german far-right seized on the story, claiming proof of unbridled immigration and islamic terrorism the german far-right, now that we know the attacker was an anti-islam activist & afd supporter: đ”đ”âđ«đł
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What we know about the Magdeburg attack suspect â DW â 12/21/2024
Five people were killed and scores more injured when a car plowed into revelers at a Christmas market in Germany. A man taken into custody at the scene is reportedly a critic of Islam and AfD supporte...
https://www.dw.com/en/what-we-know-about-the-magdeburg-attack-suspect/a-71130186
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what does the afd mean when it talks about "remigration"? âwithin the AfD thereâs people who say the quiet part out loud â there might even be some people who donât think there is a quiet part" says jakob guhl
@isdgermany.bsky.social
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Donald Trump's victory energized the German far-right. Elon Musk's endorsement has them exultant.
Germany's AfD, with its own plan for mass deportations, is hoping to replicate the MAGA movement's success in upcoming elections.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/donald-trump-elon-musk-alternative-fur-deutschlandafd-german-elections/
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trump, musk, the afd, orban, le pen, wilders â they're all dedicated to counteracting the so-called great replacement âitâs the thing that brings together the far-right in multiple countries" says
@heidibeirich.bsky.social
at
@globalextremism.bsky.social
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Donald Trump's victory energized the German far-right. Elon Musk's endorsement has them exultant.
Germany's AfD, with its own plan for mass deportations, is hoping to replicate the MAGA movement's success in upcoming elections.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/donald-trump-elon-musk-alternative-fur-deutschlandafd-german-elections/
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the american and german far-right are in the midst of a transnational love affair, giddy over trump's election they're united by remigration, a nativist plan to purge their countries of non-white immigrants read my piece
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Donald Trump's victory energized the German far-right. Elon Musk's endorsement has them exultant.
Germany's AfD, with its own plan for mass deportations, is hoping to replicate the MAGA movement's success in upcoming elections.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/donald-trump-elon-musk-alternative-fur-deutschlandafd-german-elections/
10 months ago
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Daniel Schulman
10 months ago
Donald Trump's victory energized the German far-right. Elon Musk's AfD endorsement has them absolutely euphoric. Read Berlin-based journo
@joshaxelrod.bsky.social
on how AfD is angling to replicate the MAGA movement's success
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Donald Trump's victory energized the German far-right. Elon Musk's endorsement has them exultant.
Germany's AfD, with its own plan for mass deportations, is hoping to replicate the MAGA movement's success in upcoming elections.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/donald-trump-elon-musk-alternative-fur-deutschlandafd-german-elections/
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