🔔 New publication alert: My article on the prospects of visual investigative journalism was just published with open access in Digital Journalism👇

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed, writes @kleinmatic.bsky.social and @palewi.re: source.opennews.org/articles/jou...

As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump

Whoa - The @nytimes.com's Visual Investigations unit has grown to a 21-person team per fresh interview with @trbrtc.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/i...

Den neste måneden kommer ikke Zetland-journalist @astakongsted.bsky.social seg inn på jobben, verken fysisk eller i avisas digitale system (slack, e-post, telefon). I serien "Killswitch" skal hun etter planen leve helt uten amerikansk tech www.zetland.dk/historie/seP...

everyone in local news says collaboration is key. they also say it can be a pain. enter Plucky Wire, a scrappy startup incubated @granitestatenc.bsky.social. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/a-sc...

For all the proper news nerds on Bluesky I set up a version of the essential Twitter bot by @kleinmatic.bsky.social: posting whenever a news org opens a new public repo on GitHub👇

In the aftermath of Good’s killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, it’s clear some news organizations were better equipped than others to analyze the visual evidence provided from bystander videos. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/when...

Highlighting this list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Thank you @craigsilverman.bsky.social for highlighting my Nieman prediction for 2026 in this briefing. A top tip for the year to come is following @indicator.media to build your visual investigative skills → indicator.media/p/briefing-l...

“You either invest in visual verification capabilities now or pay the price in credibility later,” @stalebg.bsky.social writes. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/a-vi...

If my reading is correct, UVaLibrary.bsky.social estimates that 15% of questions it receives are about references made up by ChatGPT. This represents a huge waste of time for its staff as “it is much harder to prove that a unique record doesn’t exist” → www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-s...

"The paramedic who filmed the video was later found with a bullet in his head in the mass grave."

"Journalists will need to pair technical verification with contextual analysis to uncover what visual material reveals, what it excludes, and how it shapes competing narratives," @stalebg.bsky.social writes.

Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Now you can follow this year's Nieman Lab Predictors to keep up with their insights in 2025: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Advanced Solar Geolocation Tutorial: For everyone who works with geolocation or chronolocation, I wrote a guide for new method to locate images based only on the time and *a part* of a shadow. In this scenario, object heights and full shadows are not necessary anymore. medium.com/@gaborfriese...

Media industry platform adoption of Bluesky moving at lightning pace; the @financialtimes.com has a proper handle and is already using bluesky posts in their stories

New bot alert 🤖🚨This tracks the use of bluesky across a range of international news outlets, showing which skeets are embedded in articles. Check it out at @citations.bsky.social

New by me —> There’s now a way for journalists to verify their Bluesky accounts through their employers (while still keeping control of them) www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ther...

Stockholm University's amadestam.bsky.social & team are making an "historical Google Earth" by digitizing 1.8 milion aerial photos from 60 countries (comissioned by 🇬🇧 between '39-'99). Potentially a very valuable source for doing historic visual investigations/OSINT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABvM...

Denne kontoen følger med på hvilke skeets som siteres i skandinaviske nettaviser 🤖

Excited to announce the public beta for Sill, my new link collection tool for Bluesky and Mastodon! Sill connects to your accounts and watches your timelines for new links. It then aggregates those and shows you the most popular links in your network. Yes, it's like Nuzzel. Sign up at sill.social!

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

TV 2 melder at samtlige stortingspartier har underskrevet en avtale (i regi av IKT Norge) om å ikke bruke "deepfakes" i forbindelse med stortingsvalget neste år. Det skal også omfatte "humor og satire".

I made a starter pack for journalism thinkers on Bluesky. Let me know who I've missed! go.bsky.app/aWdSPb

New feed on open source journalism 📍

For more on verification, visual investigations, open source investigations and OSINT – mostly in a journalistic context– start here (will be updating! ⚠️) go.bsky.app/JqCpSro

"Bluesky began as an internal Twitter team tasked with developing an open source infrastructure on which the entire platform could shift" www.theguardian.com/technology/a...