It’s not a news site. But there’s a lot to learn from how Wikipedia constructs shared knowledge about what’s happening in the world. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/afte...

I’ve written for a long time (almost 2 decades) that platform aims are at odds with public interest journalism, and partnerships with them are inevitably compromised. In 2026 that relationship faces the ultimate test, which tech companies will likely fail www.cjr.org/tow_center/b...

SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

This is valuable but not at all surprising to me given the frequency with which @indicator.media finds that it is Chinese advertisers behind scam nudifiers and pornbait ads. see for ex: > indicator.media/p/meta-ran-t... > indicator.media/p/meta-ran-4...

Today's addition is a partnership between OpenAI and TIME centered around fostering AI literacy tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Pudding Cup! Our entry pool was the strongest ever with close to 100 submissions. Show our 3 winners some love 🫶 on this thread, and check out the full details and honorable mentions at the link: pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

my master's project is a winner of @puddingviz.bsky.social's Pudding Cup! thanks so much to one of my favorite sites out there :) check the piece out here: cj-robinson.github.io/trans-model-... and take a look at the other (very cool!) projects that won this year: pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

So about that font news ... gift article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Porn is being injected into dozens of government websites across the country using malicious PDFs. A separate attack is hijacking govt websites to redirect to penis enlargement scams and animal vagina masturbators. Cool stuff: www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...

i love realizing there's a way to do data viz on a thing you thought you could never do data viz on!!

Announcing a new tool to keep track of disputes and deals between news publishers and AI companies. Read @klaudia.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/law...

Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...

My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...

A national survey found that half of all immigrants in the U.S. say they feel less safe since Trump took office. Still, many say their future remains bright. From NYT National: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Tracking the spread of bird flu using genetic markers, satellite imagery, property records, and more reminds me of John Snow’s Cholera investigation/map. Howe’s Hens is the modern day Broad Street Pump. Amazing work from @natlash.bsky.social & @chrisalcantara.com. www.propublica.org/article/meth...

New on @indicator.media: The single most active contributor to Community Notes since Sep. 1 is Zesty Walnut Grackle. Zesty is an AI bot, one of eight currently active on X after the platform onboarded them in a bid to boost flagging participation.

How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC. Read Jem Bartholomew. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

The Pudding Cup is back for 2025! We want to see your best non-commercial visual and data-driven projects! 🗓️ Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2025 (free entry) 📢 Winners announced: the week of December 9, 2025 💸 Up to 3 winners each get $1,500 pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next. My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives. www.authoritarian-stack.info

This chart kills fascists: 1943 anti-Nazi information booklet, spread by the RAF. 🔴 Allies ⚫️ Axis powers "Many dogs are the death of the hare!"

We at Media Cloud recently hosted a small New(s) Knowledge Symposium to share learning and examples of teams and projects building knowledge from streams of news content. Curious about the event? See @cj-robinson.bsky.social's piece for @columjournreview.bsky.social . www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

meet the new community note writers on X: www.cjr.org/analysis/x-t...

Trump Shrank Staffing of National Parks. See How Many Are Struggling. More than 90 parks have reported problems like lost revenue and cuts to emergency services. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

When Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson searched "Is DC safe?", the top Google News result was a White House article. www.cjr.org/analysis/the... @dmil.bsky.social @towcenter.bsky.social

NEW: We simulated a disease outbreak to show how vaccines can stop the spread of a contagious disease. With @fparis.bsky.social @upshot.nytimes.com (Paywall-free gift link) 🎁

My latest for @puddingviz.bsky.social: The Middle Ages Read: pudding.cool/2025/02/midd... Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zL...

play strands today to see the devious little theme we picked! missing the folks at nyt games a little extra today www.nytimes.com/games/strands

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

NEW: Your next Hinge or Tinder date could have a history of sexual assault, but the company behind these dating apps isn’t telling you that. What our investigation found, with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social, @us.theguardian.com and @19thnews.org: themarkup.org/investigatio...

For the Great American Coffee Survey, @jameshoffmann.bsky.social sent 4K Americans four different kinds of coffee. One was an experimental light roast--older respondents did not love it. cj-robinson.github.io/coffee-survey/

Tracking all of Trump's major moves so far. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

new story for our data studio course: 2024 nyc evictions were the highest since COVID despite new eviction restrictions passed in april cj-robinson.github.io/2024-nyc-evi...

Part of the confusion around the OMB funding freeze lay in the spreadsheet that was circulated with it: It named about 2,600 federal programs, a virtual copy-and-paste of how the U.S. government spends money. We translated it more legibly here... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW: Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...