👍🏻 Great episode and a MUST listen about threats to democracy, ethics of AI targeting in Iran, and dangerous future of automated warfare. Fascinating interview with Zack Beauchamp about countries who have experienced democracy backslide and what we can do to protect our own democracy.

The US military used AI tools for real-time targeting in its strikes on Iran, even as the government feuded with the maker of those tools. Hear more from Brooke’s convos with @sivav.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

I might not know what to say about the world right now, but I'm grateful @onthemedia.bsky.social and @brookegladstone.bsky.social know who can speak to the madness. Another excellent episode. Thank you,  Siva Vaidhyanathan, @alanrozenshtein.com, and @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social.

Really appreciated the opportunity to talk to @brookegladstone.bsky.social @onthemedia.bsky.social about the Anthropic-OpenAI-Pentagon mess. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

📻 Tune into this week’s show, featuring: @sivav.bsky.social, @alanrozenshtein.com, and @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

lol this absolutely sucks www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Welcome to Bluesky @doctorow.pluralistic.net !!!

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

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The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

MOSKOWITZ: I want to give you a chance to answer on the record Rep. Kamlager-Dove's question about sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski NOEM: The tabloids you are quoting are insane MOSKOWITZ: So it's a no? NOEM: You say conservative women are stupid or sluts. I am neither.

This very brief message will begin appearing on 9NEWS during NBC Nightly News and other programs. I appreciate 9NEWS/TEGNA making space for a quick word about journalism in this moment and what our @nexton9news.bsky.social team tries to accomplish.

On the podcast today, a new interview with the director of "Predators," a 2025 documentary about one of the most popular and influential true crime shows ever: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

KAMLAGER-DOVE: At any point in your tenure at DHS, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski? NOEM: You're peddling tabloid garbage K: You should be able to answer if someone asks if a federal official is sleeping with their subordinate NOEM: It's garbage K: It's about your judgment

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina is up on stage as the last event of the day. He cites being anti crypto, anti prediction markets and anti gambling as why Democrats are losing young men. Messina is on the board of Blockchain .com and lobbied for the American Gaming Association

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

This interview is essential helpful for understanding the stakes and potential outcomes of the accelerating oligarchic capture of US media. My first experience as a grad student was visiting the CEU (RIP) in Budapest in 2010 and everyone knew even then that media capture was central to Orban plan.

"Not asking you to click on any link, just subscribe to a real news organization with real journalists doing firsthand, fact-based reporting." A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, urging people to support "original reporting" wherever they find it. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...

Strongly suggest listening to this week's #OnTheMedia. Three very important stories from the breath of this moment in history. This story about #BrentRenaud is deeply moving. I want to watch the full documentary. We've got to stare what's happening in the face so we can respond like humans.

It’s been four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Filmmaker Craig Renaud reflects on his Oscar-nominated doc, “Armed Only with a Camera,” which describes the legacy of his brother, the first American journalist killed by Russian forces in Ukraine: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Hey, cool. @lastweektonight.com just did a segment using reporting I did w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social Oliver was talking about body cams--and how law enforcement agencies have often undermined their potential The same body-cams Dems are centering that ICE reforms on www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_...

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 2025 was the most violent year for journalists in three decades. Hear where, and why, reporters and media personnel are under threat lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran. Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

This is basically my argument in my new @wired.com essay — we haven’t even finished dealing with the downstream consequences of the LAST upheaval in Iran: www.wired.com/story/5-big-...

It appears a hospital in Teheran has now been hit. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

Filmmaker Craig Renaud on his Oscar-nominated short, “Armed Only with a Camera,” a tribute to his brother, the first American journalist killed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

“Media capture,” is a phrase scholars have been using to describe the phenomena of public interests losing possession of the press to political and corporate players. @victorpickard.bsky.social on why the American system was set up to be snatched away from the start lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Donald Trump’s FCC has been coming after the broadcast networks for their so-called political biases. @brookegladstone.bsky.social spoke with the conservative lawyer behind it all.

"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames that burned it. You laid the dead of London at our doors and we knew the dead were our dead — were all men’s dead — were mankind’s dead — and ours." Archibald MacLeish, Dec. 2, 1941. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/you-burned...

Just about 24 hours are left in our Hell Gate "Welcome to Fear City" T-shirt sale! Grab an annual Believer subscription for 25% off the usual price, get a slick tee. Don't wait! hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-t-...

NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

Apple is adding video support to its podcasting apps — that’s great. But the way it’s doing so might jeopardize the openness that’s kept podcasting from getting enshittified like every other form of media. It’s not too late for them to fix this. anildash.com/2026/02/28/a...

“The headline finding is this was another record year for journalist killings after the record that we saw in 2024. 129 killed worldwide which is more than any year since CPJ began collecting data back in 1992.” - CPJ CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

“I think by now it's time to put to rest this notion of a benevolent billionaire. We should not invest so much power into one individual over our media system and over our democratic society.” - @victorpickard.bsky.social lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Interesting detail - Fox & Friends is hosted by the regular weekday hosts this morning not the weekend cast. How would Fox News have enough time to ask the regular cast to come in? The show starts at 6AM but they are usually there hours earlier.

A new report found 129 journalists were killed in 2025, the deadliest year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting these data in 1992. Israel was responsible for 2/3. I spoke with CPJ's CEO Jodie Ginsberg on the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

You need to listen to this.

📻 Tune into this week’s show, featuring: @victorpickard.bsky.social, Miriam Berger, @jodieginsberg.bsky.social, & Craig Renaud: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company (@secwar) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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WNYC's @onthemedia.bsky.social has an excellent series about this: The Divided Dial!

What a cartoonishly dumb and frightening moment we find ourselves in

From @onthemedia.bsky.social A rocking interview about media capture from mid-19th century to now. Clear, detailed, with helpful comparison to systems other than ours. Can't say enough about it. With @victorpickard.bsky.social, a brilliantly accessible expert. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

I highly recommend listing to this @onthemedia.bsky.social podcast about media capture. There's some terrific history in there about how we got to this point. 🗃️https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-centurylong-capture-of-us-media

“We don’t have a government that’s properly staffed,” she said. “All of these things [federal workers do] are really part of making life a little fairer, a little safer for the public. We’ve lost that.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/26/n...