New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

If you get an email from me - which is vanishingly unlikely given my current work schedule - check it has not come from inbox.ru …..which is definitely not me

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We have really top notch computational journalists at @towcenter.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social …here is @cj-robinson.bsky.social with new research on the dangerous Polymarket grift infecting news integrity

AI companies - ‘helping’ journalism…. by borrowing authority without bothering to fix citation . Me in CJR www.cjr.org/tow_center/d...

Mediahuis is a company that boasted about going ‘all in’ on AI …then it suspended one of its most senior editors for doing just that…..

Sora shuts down, the Metaverse is binned, a court decides Meta, Google are guilty in social media addiction trial, AOC says AI sucks…..a big week in the accountability renaissance

the default to focus on “positive” & “improvement-oriendted (even of harmful & shitty systems)” research in academia is not only a pathology but a real obstacle to actual accountability research that tries to shine light on broken systems, names responsible actors & confronts harmful practices

Doomscrolling Professor Pape videos is an unexpected new hobby

huge and true

I am very proud to say that I worked for months as an expert witness on this case. I am very pleased by the outcome.

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

There is zero reason for any credible news organisation to do a deal with Polymarket or Kalshi. Here are some concrete reasons NOT to - new analysis from @towcenter.bsky.social show how far reaching and false Polymarket ‘affiliate’ accounts are www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...

genuinely shocking evidence of misconduct in ways that should guarantee disbarment of the lawyers responsible. i've never seen anything like the longer para on page 2.

AI - more at the top, less at the bottom

Mediahuis journalist Menno Van Den Bos emailed me to say he noticed a report about @towcenter.bsky.social ‘s Journalism 2050 project written by Dutch editor Peter Vandermeersch contained multiple errors- false attribution, and a quote (by me) I didn’t say… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

of interest to few certain strains of music heads: huge stash of NME back issues now dropping on @archive.org, 300+ issues, 1969-1983 (so far). archive.org/search?query...

As LLM use expands, “the models’ outputs…are reabsorbed into human discourse & shape users’ own expression & reasoning and, in turn, influence the data used to train future models, transforming homogenization from a passive bias into a structurally reinforced influence.” www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Here’s my plea to the national security press: don’t report what he announces at face value. You’ve been suckered over and over to cover his fake trade deals and ceasefire “announcements” like they are real. He’s desperate to look like he’s got a plan. Make sure it’s not fake.

Disappointed Anne Hathaway didn’t mention Max Dowman’s goal

Guys... we don't have exact numbers, but we've gotta be close. membership.theonion.com

Someone check in on the mayor @mayor.nyc.gov

Paint it on a mural on the Holloway Road

A summary of the problems of ‘sloppelgangers’ neatly described by @juliaangwin.com . Many of us are on Grammarly giving our ‘advice’ - unaware, untrue and uncompensated . It is specific to a product here, but elsewhere it is also out of control . www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

“We had not realized our government was capable of such folly and such crookedness” David Astor’s leader in the Observer 1956, on the Suez crisis. Another narrow stretch of water critical to global trade, another empire in its ugly death throes … www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

... “But there is, it seems to me, also a conflict present in more and more parts of the world, between the media and journalism. Between the industry and the craft. Experience shows that, under autocratic regimes and dictatorships, the industry and the craft are more and more incompatible.”

few essays lay out the challenges for truth and society and what role journalism needs to play under techno authoritarianism as well as Carlos Dada’s Reuters Memorial lecture - from this week reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/carlos-...

Annual medical… Dr: ‘blood pressure 115/75 - perfect’ . Me: ‘I think your machine is malfunctioning’

Marco Rubio is confused about "censorship" and a lot of people inside and outside the United States are paying a high price for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

""The Trump administration is using the threat of detention and deportation to suppress speech it disfavors"[email protected] on CITR v. Rubio, the case we filed this morning www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

I am apparently a ‘grammarly expert’ according to this piece by @laurahazardowen.bsky.social - www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo... AI me, plus others, victims of unauthorized identity use by a company that raised $1bn. AI me, and my AI journalistic colleagues have very high billable hours…

Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏

Let's be clear about what the "SAVE Act" is all about, another phase of the "rigged election" strategy. Trump is exploiting the voter fraud myth he created to pass laws and enact policies that will make it harder to vote, suppress votes, cause confusion, & sow distrust democracy. Rinse. Repeat.

key questions for journalists to ask: did the military consider any of the risks to human life or the environment when bombing an oil facility in/near a city of close to 10 million? if US did it, was it a result of hegseth's rejection of the law of war?

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Meanwhile, CNN rages at a journalism problem it created. Goes by the name of Jennings.,@status.news reports. www.status.news/p/scott-jenn...

I wrote this post hours before the Associated Press announced a new partnership with Kalshi.

Wow. Ellie Aghayeva — the Columbia student detained by ICE this morning — has been released and posted this on her Instagram. Comes after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed his concern on the arrest to Trump in a meeting just earlier.

Several European countries are considering social media bans for children. We must regulate platforms, not children. I urge caution: ✅ Focus on "safety by design" ✅ Demand algorithmic transparency ✅ Enforce the #DSA & #HumanRights standards Read my Shout Out👇 www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

No. The NYT is a news company, but it has great games as part of the package. They have stickiness, great UX but also a community drawn together by similarities developed through their culture/journalism/ news….however you describe it. Puzzles as a standalone would flop - even the same puzzles.

Just sent this to my students ….as it’s AI fail test week in reporting …

Judge Cannon has just denied @knightcolumbia.org & @weareoversight.bsky.social motions to intervene and permanently barred DOJ from disclosing Jack Smith's report. She says (again) that Smith was appointed unconstitutionally, and that the report is the fruit of the unconstitutional appointment.

Trump's steep cuts to public service jobs and STEM research has not saved much money at all. While, naturally, defense contractors continue to make up the biggest share of government contracts. The country is losing years of talent to the private sector and to other countries. trib.al/yL4uzHA

Governments worldwide are moving to restrict youth access to social media — from Australia’s nationwide under-16 ban to fast-moving proposals in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Tech Policy Press is tracking these legislative efforts across continents and jurisdictions. 40 countries on the map:

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

What we are learning about AI and energy use in Trump’s America is that data is in fact the old oil

An Arsenal fan and my relationship with title hopes this season

Trump shuts down TSA Pre and Global Entry …..some of those people who secretly enjoyed his tax breaks might be about to switch their votes …