“As the season builds to a fever pitch, correspondents from around the world are traveling across the US to try to explain how it all works: to enlighten readers who might not be able to understand why Donald Trump remains a contender, or why Kamala Harris owns a gun.”

“After Trump’s rally, Bad Bunny shared a segment of Harris’s Puerto Rico video to his 45.7 million Instagram followers several times. Specifically, he selected the segment in which Harris says, ‘There’s so much at stake in this election for Puerto Rican voters and for Puerto Rico,’ and where she reminds people of Trump throwing paper towels to island residents after the hurricane.”

“The campaign, called Progress 2028, is designed to look like it is the Democratic version of Project 2025 and lists a set of policies that the group says Harris would enact if elected president. In actuality, the entire scheme is being orchestrated and promoted by an Elon Musk-funded group called Building America’s Future, which registered to operate ‘Progress 2028’ as a ‘fictitious name’ under the PAC.”

“From the beginning, this project was conceived as a voice in the debate on the opportunities and threats posed by the development of artificial intelligence,” editor-in-chief Marcin Pulit explained. “This was the goal of the radio experiment…and it has succeeded.”

“Here’s how it could work. A foundation or public charity would be created to house the Washington Post, just as Lenfest did in creating the Lenfest Institute for Journalism to be the home of the Philadelphia Inquirer. It would have an independent board, committed to its mission of public service journalism and independence. Bezos would add another donation (perhaps $100 million, the equivalent of what the paper has reportedly been losing each year) to create an endowment aimed at forever ensuring the newspaper’s excellence.”

“One of the reasons a lot of major sports personalities don’t [talk politics] is because you are a very general market, and do you really want to have to take 50% of the people that see you and fight them, or alienate them or make them uncomfortable with you? Sports, traditionally, I feel it was neutral ground. That’s increasingly changed.”

“This recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations, which in the course of the past decade have taken over our digital platforms.”

“I guess I would say the time to decide when you want to kill a deer is before you go hunting. When you set out to call races, you just call them. And if you think too much about what the consequences will be or who will like what you do or dislike what you do, you would end up paralyzed.”

“Using AI testing software and methodology designed by the AI Democracy Projects, we asked the same 25 election questions in both languages, and found that 52 percent of the responses to Spanish queries contained inaccurate information compared to 43 percent of responses to queries in English.”

“The [Newark] Star-Ledger will cease publishing a print newspaper and will close its Montville production facility in February 2025 … In addition, Advance Local, which owns NJ Advance Media and NJ.com, announced that it is ending print publication of dailies The Times of Trenton and the South Jersey Times, as well as the weekly Hunterdon County Democrat.”

“New X users with interests in topics such as crafts, sports and cooking are being blanketed with political content and fed a steady diet of posts that lean toward Donald Trump and that sow doubt about the integrity of the Nov. 5 election, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.”