Cloudflare Blocks AI Bots from Scraping Web Content Without Permission A Big Win for Web Publishers Against AI Bots By @sarahgrevy.bsky.social www.cjr.org/analysis/clo...

Publishers just got a big win over AI bots that have been accused of shoplifting content: Cloudflare will from now on block 🤖 by default unless website hosts actively choose to allow them. My latest for @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/analysis/clo...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq29... That image you shared? Might not be real.  Let the PSAi show you what is, using the viral fakes everyone fell for. Find out more at thepsai.com

Print Is Dead. Just Don’t Tell Microsoft. A tech giant joins the magazine resurgence, by @sarahgrevy.bsky.social of the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

What Was on Mike Waltz’s Phone? The concern over TeleMessage www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Entry: Denied The “intolerable risk to press freedom” posed by device searches at the border. Check out this @columjournreview.bsky.social newsletter by @sarahgrevy.bsky.social to better understand the risks behind and how to prepare for digital border searches.

European editors on how the news out of America drives coverage at home, by @essebbi.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/tru...

I wrote about the increased scrutiny many international travelers face at the U.S. border and what this means for journalists who may carry sensitive information about their sources.

I wrote about how a new bipartisan bill will seek to sunset Section 230 entirely—that is, unless tech companies agree to accept new rules.

Playing with FOIA: Pushing back on DOGE’s lack of transparency, by Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen of the Tow Center. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

👋MEET THE 2025 DDC x TRYGFONDEN FELLOWS👋 As a TrygFonden fellow at the DDC, @sarahgrevy.bsky.social from @towcenter.bsky.social is investigating crowdsourced fact-checking systems, such as "community notes." We're eager to see if these approaches can help combat misinformation! 🔍

The Intercept has already filed more than a dozen FOIA requests for Musk’s emails using this information.

Will Elon Musk Break with Community Notes? His own fact-checking system has led to some awkward moments for the X owner–cum-bureaucrat, by Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Turns out democracy dies in full daylight too

I DON'T NEED TO SEE THE TOE SUCKING VIDEO ANY MORE THANK YOU

I research news media for a living. I teach media systems every semester. I supervise students who write about, among other things, journalism in challenged democracies. I know what I'm talking about. This statement from the in-coming FBI Director is incredibly dangerous for democracy in the US.

The new chairman of the FTC wants to investigate cENsORsHiP on social platforms and boy do I have a platform for them! www.platformer.news/ftc-censorsh...

At the Tow Center, we’re working with journalist and Professor Bette Damn on a new project that aims to help news organizations reveal potentially overlooked narratives by using AI to audit who is quoted in their articles

Many crappy uses of AI in newsrooms, but can LLMs be helpful in creating source audits? @towcenter.bsky.social research helped a reporter who spent 15 years covering Afghanistan identify who got to shape the narrative www.cjr.org/tow_center/u...

The DOGE.gov site is insecure and basically anyone could edit it. via @404media.co www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

I wrote about how librarians and data archivists are backing up the federal information that's being changed or deleted from government websites —and what it means for journalism. Via @columjournreview.bsky.social and @towcenter.bsky.social www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Fighting the Great Federal Website Purge: Journalists, judges, and archivists are keeping government data online. New by Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Go read a book.

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

Grateful for the support from @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @towcenter.bsky.social to spent the next few months studying Community Notes — the crowdsourced system that more platforms are pivoting towards, often at the expense of traditional fact-checkers

Lucas Graves on Meta’s Decision to Shut Down Its Global Fact-Checking Program, in conversation with Kaylee Williams of the @towcenter.bsky.social www.cjr.org/tow_center/q...

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

🚨New WP🚨 Remember Musk+Zuck+Trump+Jordan etc crying fact-checker bias b/c Reps were flagged more than Dems? We analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and guess what: posts flagged as "misleading" are 67% more likely to be written by Reps! The issue is Reps, not fact-checkers... osf.io/preprints/ps...

“The problem is that for a Community Note to be shown, it requires consensus, and on polarizing issues, that consensus is rarely reached..." Our research in @columjournreview.bsky.social 👇

The Right Takes Aim at Wikipedia: Disputes around edits are nothing new, but the rise of partisanship has added fuel to the fire. By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen of @towcenter.bsky.social www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

I wrote about how Elon Musk lashed out at Wikipedia after it noted his controversial hand gesture last week. Wikipedia’s cofounder Jimmy Wales wrote he hopes Musk’s attempt to defund the nonprofit “results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth.” www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

After seven years in the US, TikTok could go dark for its US-based users as soon as this weekend www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The trends that the CJR staff will be watching in 2025 👀 www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

As part of this year’s Wrapped, Spotify tried something new: adding an AI-generated podcast with two “hosts” who discusses your listening habits. Social media wasn’t exactly happy about it. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

This is important for us newbies on Bluesky. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

I wrote about how Trump has gone notably quiet on Section 230: a law he previous fought to revoke bc it grants platforms protection to moderate content. Trump’s darling, Truth Social, now relies on it btw. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

I have a new piece out with @aisvarya17.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social in which we test how OpenAI's new search feature surfaces and attributes news content. Our findings were not promising for news publishers (1/9) www.cjr.org/tow_center/h...

Traveling and looking for some good podcasts to listen to? Please check out "What Works: The Future of #LocalNews," hosted by @ellenclegg.bsky.social and me. We talk with entrepreneurs and thoughts leaders, and keep you caught up on important developments in community #journalism.

Meet the anonymous woman journalist reporting inside Taliban-run Afghanistan — the winner of this year’s Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award. Spent hours in conversation with this incredible journalist to understand how she goes about her reporting, anonymously. www.cjr.org/world/afghan...

"Journalists were reluctant to leave X since they had invested years in building a following there." It's true. I had over 20,000 followers on X. I built my entire career on X. I finally deleted my account but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a little scary. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Thanks to @sarahgrevy.bsky.social for including me in her CJR piece about journalism's big move from Xitter to Bluesky. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

As the dust settles following the election, a pressing question has arisen—again—within journalism circles as to what to do about X, a platform whose owner has acted in hostile ways toward members of the mainstream press and is preparing to enter the White House. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

“the big question is whether journalists will actually leave X, or divide their attention between both platforms.” Happy to contribute to @sarahgrevy.bsky.social's story in @columjournreview.bsky.social about journalists on Bluesky, alongside @dankennedy-nu.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

How the foundation of Bluesky was built is so crucial for the future of social — so much so that @rmac.bsky.social & I wrote a whole chapter about it in our book. From day 1, @jay.bsky.team was insistent on independence, a decision that was extraordinarily prescient. (1/2)

The shift from billionaire-controlled social media to decentralized platforms like Bluesky offers a hopeful change on the internet 🔗 www.404media.co/the-great-mi...

Hello new (and old followers). I left the other place and came here about a year ago. It was the best decision. I am so glad you’re here now. I missed you!

An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world. The headline: