When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose. Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Inside Axel Springer’s Weds town hall, where editorial staffers pressed execs on AI, leaving with no real answers and a confirmation that more pain is coming “The truth is, you either embrace A.I. or you die,” CEO Mathias Döpfner said status.news/p/axel-springer-ai-business-insider-mathias-dopfner

Minneapolis' Barebones is one of the highlights of every year, made better by the fact that hundreds of residents work tirelessly without pay to make it happen. Fire, puppets, kids in raccoon costumes and the sense of community when they sing "We remember" as people shout out loved ones they lost.

The better of the motions headed to the public safety committee is this one from Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, which requests the City Attorney w/ the Council to draft “substantive limitations” on non-lethal use of force. It references a previous injunction from 2021 www.latimes.com/california/s...

"Common Crawl has opened a back door for AI companies to train their models with paywalled articles from major news websites. And the foundation appears to be lying to publishers about this..." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Block Club Chicago continuing to excel in their coverage of the crises in Chicago. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...

"In Ukraine, unmanned weapons hunt the wounded and medics alike. Moving injured soldiers to safety has never been more difficult." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...

Minneapolis mayoral results will continue to be tabulated tomorrow. Mayor Jacob Frey says "it looks damn good for us." He says "Minneapolis is on the rise."

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's election night party at Jefe. Quite a few media here.

People are trickling into the DeWayne Davis election night party at Lush. The Minneapolis mayoral candidate isn't here yet. I've covered a lot of election night parties, and the aesthetics here definitely beat them all. But of course we won't know the new mayor until votes are tabulated.

“As humans, we crave connection,” he said. “And I think as journalists, especially broadcast journalists, we have an opportunity to help build that connection between people.” www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

My job is definitely to help hold elected folks accountable, but I also think it's worth pointing out that I have tons of respect for all sorts of people who choose public service. The vast majority are smart and well intentioned. Some are even kind! People don't talk about that often enough.

Journalism orgs are undoubtedly diminished from last century. But I love to see them stand up to bullies who try to intimidate/manipulate journalists. There are definite failures (access etc) but MSM has historically been pretty protective of its independence www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“You know what the police officer said who took my sister’s case? Mariah didn’t seem like she was afraid enough. Her case didn’t have enough severity,” Hunter said. “In Minneapolis you can be pistol-whipped and it’s not severe enough for you.” www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

I taught a journalism course for Harvard a few months back and had a couple students almost surely using AI even though it defeats the purpose of learning how to write/report. One woman read me what sounded like verbatim AI when I asked her a question in class. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

"The National Guard Reaction Force is expected to complete civil unrest training and be fully operational by April 1...23,500 troops across all 50 states and three territories, excluding the District of Columbia, the documents say." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly

“It appeared that Floyd had helped make a batch of cookies a few weeks before the event, and he took them to sell at the Pride festival,” prosecutors write. “It is not clear if Floyd adulterated the cookies he helped make and sold at the festivities.” www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

"I decided to stop playing the game of being stupid. We step into circles of energy which are negative and we play a role... you have to say: 'Wake up and live! Act as if it is impossible to fail.' And that’s what I did." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/m...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.

Two purported Russian mobsters each sentenced to 25 years behind bars for hiring a hitman to kill an Iranian American journalist at her Brooklyn home on behalf of the Iranian government. Masih Alinejad, for years, hosted a program on VOA's Persian News Network. www.yahoo.com/news/articles/2... #Sav

“Following the jewel heist at The Louvre, [Bari] Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown…Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code…”

Turning faith inward, Brooks said, causes people to ask what the church, the government, their neighbors, can do for them, not what they can do for others. "We have less grace” because of that, he said. “We have less tolerance, we have less patience." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Minneapolis mayoral candidates DeWayne Davis, Jacob Frey, Omar Fateh and Jazz Hampton — four of 15 candidates on the ranked choice ballot — meet Monday at 3:30 p.m. It will be streamed live at mprnews.org. For more information on races and ballot questions, visit mprnews.org/vote.

BREAKING Ireland elects independent Catherine Connolly president. The Sinn Fein-backed leftist campaigned on economic justice at home, fury over Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Some images from the protest rally of more than 600 outside Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference in Minneapolis.

Protesters getting louder and approaching the doors to the Whipple Building. Some banging or knocking on the glass. Three law enforcement agents without riot gear are visible inside. One officer is outside in front of the door. Still peaceful. Just loud.

Very peaceful protest outside the Whipple Building. Many of the participants are interfaith leaders. Rough guess is more than 400 people here now. I've also seen three unicorns, a couple frogs, three handmaidens and a Pokemon.

Protester organizers are holding a press conference outside the Whipple Federal building in a minute. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be holding a press conference in the Twin Cities later this afternoon. A protest is planned for later this afternoon.

A federal grand jury has indicted former Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Jonathan Weinhagen on charges of stealing $200,000 from the organization, including $30,000 that the Chamber put up as reward money following the shooting of three children in 2021.

Very interesting use of data here.

And Kansas City is already required to provide 25 percent of city funds to the KCPD.

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to “scrape” the comments of millions of Reddit users for commercial gain. https://to.pbs.org/48JXYOI

"Digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost. And the digital news providers are almost entirely concentrated in metro areas, leaving vast swaths of the country with little to no access to local news.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...

"Daily newspaper circulation that averaged between 50 and 60 million people at the turn of the century now stands at just over 15 million. An estimated 365,460 people worked at newspapers in 2005, and now that number is down to 91,550, the report said." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/20/n...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is pursuing a third term, citing his desire to continue pressing back on the Trump administration and making the cost of living more affordable. His entry into the race likely clears the field on the DFL side.

"Minnesota has layers of state laws and procedures designed to prevent inappropriate relationships between teachers and students. The Benson case raises questions about how well those systems work." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Mr. Thornebrooke called The Epoch Times’s signing of the pledge a choice to “abdicate our responsibility as journalists in favor of merely repeating state narratives.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

“I grabbed his arm,” he continued. “He was still clutching his gun pretty hard. I pried his fingers away from it, removed it from his hands and put it down.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Annunciation victim Lydia Kaiser sharing an update in her own words: “It’s so hard to believe I actually got shot, and other kids did too. It makes me angry but I don’t want to let the shooter win.” Full statement here: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Any effort to “dictate coverage — and any retribution in the form of stopping publication — is a violation not only of the norms of free press that underpin democratic society, but of I.U.’s own agreements with generations of student journalists,” alumni board said. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/b...

It’s still not known who paid for Rick Kupchella’s hourlong video “Precarious State"

Paging @chrissteller.bsky.social

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...