OpenAI’s Sora let me create a fake eyewitness video of a fire at the UN building. It’s not perfect, but it’s certainly fast and good enough. The original came with a bouncing watermark which was easy to crop out. Good job everybody.

NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...

this is going to be a disaster www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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John Oliver on Meta’s decision to roll back fact-checking and content moderation youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo?...

We publish a new version (v0.84) of our verification plugin. It improves the keyframes file mode and assistant (both from @veraai_eu), archiving (from #DisinfoArchiving @factchecknet project) and includes a Japanese localization!

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Bellingcat is currently working with universities to develop open source investigation courses in various fields and creating student-led investigative hubs at those universities, which seems well timed.

what's old is new www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryan...

“human-curated news offers something algorithms can’t replicate: the comfort of knowing that on the other side of your news, there’s a person who cares about what you read, not just what keeps you scrolling.” www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/to-h...

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Tips for searching Bluesky - mostly the same operators as Twitter but there are a couple extra useful ones, including an API (remember those days?) bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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