Michaël Jarjour
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Founder, CEO
@trustfnd.com
• past: Twitter, FT, SRF, NZZ • he/him • 🏳️🌈🇨🇭🇪🇺🇱🇧 • London
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2 months ago
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Reuters Institute
about 16 hours ago
1️⃣ The BBC is by far the most widely used source of news in the UK both online and offline, and it is more widely used as a source of news than many public service media around Europe. It is also the most popular source of news among both Conservative and Labour voters
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Matt TK Taylor
about 22 hours ago
Slight curiosity on how much of this was not just powered by the media attacking itself, but also Twitter's right-wing reply-guy echo chamber becoming a source of "the public opinion". You can see it on every "BREAKING" post that remains there from the news personalities unable to leave.
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The take away from the BBC saga is not a new one. There’s an international, coordinated attack on press freedom, by people you can choose not to empower.
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Robert Smith
about 24 hours ago
So make no mistake, this is a coordinated assault on one of the cornerstones of British civic life from people who want to weaken our democracy. Sadly, the BBC is so cowed it will actively abet them in its own destruction.
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Amazing post by Substack's departing COO. Without necessarily aiming to, she's describing what is happening in journalism. Creators become founders, become networks, become institutions. At
@trustfnd.com
we're building the network piece for trustworthy creators.
fiona.substack.com/p/the-new-fo...
about 24 hours ago
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Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕
1 day ago
Not a single reference made by Prescott about pro-trans “bias” was substantiated. Prescott did the same thing the BBC does in reporting on trans topics: - ask a handful of transphobic ‘gender critical’ ideologues for their opinions - ignore evidence - publish their bigotry verbatim as “facts” 😖
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Chance the Lawyer
3 days ago
plur1bus is some genius shit on so many levels; I’m so recreated by Rhea’s abjectly beautiful portrayal of “has everyone seriously lost their fucking minds!?!?” energy that feels like my dominant state of being these days
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Every community deserves good, reliable, truthful information. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Sarah Scott Scire
4 days ago
Teens overwhelmingly used negative words like "biased," "boring," "chaotic," and "bad" to describe the news media and journalists in a new
@newslit.org
survey. Those doing the hard and important work of teaching media literacy to high schoolers are unsurprised.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/bias...
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“Biased,” “boring,” “chaotic,” and “bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.”
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/biased-boring-chaotic-and-bad-a-majority-of-teens-hold-negative-views-of-news-media-report-finds/
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Evan Urquhart
7 days ago
I'm an optimist on journalism's future, but efforts by Dems to confuse people about what's a trustworthy source of information and what isn't are an anchor around the neck of our industry. TikTok has been a better source on the broad outlines of the Israel/Palestine conflict than legacy US media.
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If I were in New York today, this is where I’d be.
@hellgatenyc.com
has a livestream for the election today, probably gonna be very fun, comes with tons of watch parties, and is a shining example of the power of independent local journalism.
7 days ago
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Jack Mirkinson
8 days ago
another win for the "destroy anything good" wing of the american media
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If you know a person is consistently lying, why not choose a format that allows you to make those lies clear to audiences? (Airing) interviews with the any member of the Trump administration is completely pointless. Not a shred of insight to be gained.
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8 days ago
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Be bold. There’s tons of people who see your work and are ready (and able) to help fund it.
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8 days ago
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Get an email list. Build an email list. Start an email list. Go, get an email list.
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9 days ago
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
9 days ago
Journalism has been having this problem since around 2020 in reporting, theory, policy And even other journalists of color have been anywhere from silent to complicit. Weiss et al knew about this planned this , and there have been no real convos about it
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Florian Klenk 👨🏻💻
9 days ago
Unterstützt
@kobuk.at
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Evan Urquhart
9 days ago
The American people don't want politics focused on trans people. Democrats have never been focused on trans people, while Republicans have made their obsession with trans people central to their messaging and goals. It doesn't take a political genius to say that.
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Evan Urquhart
9 days ago
Glad to see Obama acknowledging the admin's abuses of transgender ppl.
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New way to steal journalism, unlocked.
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How AI browsers sneak past blockers and paywalls.
OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet present a new challenge for media companies that want to limit AI access.
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/how-ai-browsers-sneak-past-blockers-and-paywalls.php
9 days ago
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John Burn-Murdoch
11 days ago
NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
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Chrissy Stroop
11 days ago
I have worked HARD on
@theflytrapmedia.com
stuff this year, WITHOUT PAY. Some Flytrap colleagues have worked even harder--e.g. on the business and administrative side (which is A LOT). Much of our work is effectively invisible. Here's a lil thread to tell you a bit about our process and my part
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Nice.
@theverge.com
has discovered Only Connect, the best show on television. And is lambasting the NYT for stealing it and even reached out for the ‘New York Times’ for comment (no reply).
11 days ago
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Thomas Zimmer
12 days ago
The higher-ups across American mainstream media are desperate to ingratiate themselves with Trump *and* many of them have also been itching to go full anti-"woke" since at least the summer of 2020. The overall result is a pervasive rightward shift of the media and information landscape.
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Ian Boudreau
12 days ago
Hypernormalization is freaking out the chatbots
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The new
@reutersinstitute.bsky.social
report on creator journalists shows that the space is dominated by men. What it doesn't show is what you see if you look even closer. You'll see that the creator economy has birthed the most diverse newsroom in the world.
12 days ago
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This is such a sure fire way to create new enemies and fierce competitors. Very short sighted. Partnerships can benefit both the creator and the brand while keeping societies informed.
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12 days ago
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Helpful thread if you missed the livestream
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Jim Waterson
12 days ago
This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?
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"It's a campaign (...) depicting an America that doesn't exist. It idealizes a white, male-dominated workforce in a country of church-going nuclear families."
@ashendruk.com
takes a closer look at the AI slop coming out of the US Department of Labor.
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The demons are on show at the US Department of Labor
These posters are the scariest thing I've seen in a while.
https://www.not-ship.com/the-demons-are-on-show-at-the-department-of-labor-2/?ref=not-ship-newsletter
13 days ago
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Ryan Mac 🙃
13 days ago
This is the opening of the Grokipedia entry on George Floyd. I think we can all agree that Floyd did not become well known around the world because of his "lengthy criminal record." Opening the entry this way is seemingly an attempt to manufacture consent for his killing.
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Tap tap. Neuer, 5-teiliger Newsletter von
@republik.ch
— wie man sich von Big Tech löst. Von WhatsApp bis Chat GPT.
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Bye-bye Big Tech – kostenloser Newsletter
In 5 Wochen digital unabhängiger werden. Schritt für Schritt weg von Google, Meta und Co. – ohne auf Komfort zu verzichten.
https://mailchi.mp/republik.ch/byebyebigtech
13 days ago
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Samuel
14 days ago
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Gaaaaaaa
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14 days ago
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e.w. niedermeyer
14 days ago
just took a quick look at the Grokipedia article on "Tesla Autopilot," and it's even more shockingly biased than I expected like, it might as well have been written by Tesla's lawyers if you want proof of why Elon is interested in this technology, it's all right here
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"It's so unimpressive it hurts." No other way to say it.
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Journalist creators with the largest audiences are men. Overwhelmingly. But in my experience journalist creators who have the *most influence* on their audiences aren't. Creators who are *most engaging* to their audience aren't. Creators who build the best communities, aren't. Reach ≠ influence
14 days ago
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Amy Ross Arguedas
14 days ago
🚨New report out today with Nic Newman,
@mitalilive.bsky.social
, and
@richardfletcher.bsky.social
mapping out the news creator and influencer space from the vantage point of audiences across 24 countries. It includes a typology of news creators, key trends, and lists of most mentioned individuals.👇
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Mitali Mukherjee
14 days ago
@reutersinstitute.bsky.social
New publication on the vast, and often hard to define world of news creators & influencers cross 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman,
@amyrossarguedas.bsky.social
me and
@richardfletcher.bsky.social
Our report here:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...
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Mapping news creators and influencers
This report, authored by Nic Newman, Amy Ross Arguedas, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher, shows how the trend towards news influencers is developing in 24 countries.
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creators-influencers/2025
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Creators are helping to reach important audiences with journalism, often outstanding, innovative journalism. They are helping to inform people legacy media isn't reaching. We need to enable, fund, and include these people in the ecosystem of trustworthy sources.
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Mike Masnick
14 days ago
I think plank 4 gives the game away even more.
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Apparently controversial opinion? I *loved* After the Hunt. It’s not a cancel culture movie.
15 days ago
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Brian Lyman
15 days ago
I think outlets should work to be more accurate, more reflective of communities and less interested in access to elites. So there’s work to do. But I think this convo is incomplete if you don’t acknowledge the atomization of audiences or the six-decade conservative campaign against mainstream news.
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Batogato
15 days ago
holy shit. killer interviewing. the lexis corporate comms team was quietly sending their resumes out while this was going on. that, or committing seppuku for letting that happen.
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mark thompson
15 days ago
This was a really good interview
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Joshua Benton
15 days ago
New by me —> Remember "Gulf of America"? Nine months later, news outlets have stuck to that other name everyone calls it
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine...
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Nine months later, that body of water down south is still the “Gulf of Mexico” to news outlets
Since the start of summer, "Gulf of America" has been losing what little popularity it had in newsrooms.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine-months-later-that-body-of-water-down-south-is-still-the-gulf-of-mexico-to-news-outlets/
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This book + battle for the bird by
@kurtwagner.bsky.social
are the perfect combo to understand how absolutely batshit that acquisition was and how much can be destroyed when two rich assholes feel slighted.
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15 days ago
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Ryan Mac 🙃
15 days ago
It is weird to think about how that one deal portended everything that's happening today. One man was able to buy a whole company, social media network and driver of culture. And then he realized he could buy a country.
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The campaign to normalize a third term is in full swing. Listen to this man 👇🏻
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James Ball
15 days ago
THERE IS NO VICE PRESIDENT LOOPHOLE. IT'S NOT AMBIGUOUS. NO SERIOUS SCHOLAR OR ANALYST THINKS THERE IS A LOOPHOLE. STOP JUST GIVING TRUMP THE PREMISE, FFS.
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