“Graber, who defines her politics as ‘anti-authoritarian,’ sees Bluesky as a corrective to prevailing social media that subjects users to the whims of billionaires. ‘Elon, if he wanted to, could just delete the whole X time line—just do these totally arbitrary things,’ she said, adding, ‘I think this self-styled tech-monarch thing is worth questioning. Do we want to live in that world?'”

“[Behind closed doors] Google representatives apologized to the web creators and said their sites represented exactly the kind of helpful content that the company wanted to surface in search, according to creators who were in attendance. But Googlers also said they couldn’t give any guarantees that their websites would recover, because the search product had fundamentally changed in the AI era, multiple attendees said.”

“When challenged via email to do something that would be difficult to do with AI image-generating software (send an image of herself with her hand in front of her face) or prove that she was an environment expert, Rebecca stopped communicating.”

“Now, the companies are calling on the Federal Communications Commission, chaired by President Trump appointee Brendan Carr, to lift ownership caps that currently limit them to owning two TV outlets in a single market. The total number of stations owned by one company can cover no more than 39% of the U.S., which was last revised upward in the pre-steaming era of 2004.”

“Most books sold in the United States are printed domestically, but the necessary raw materials are still imported, as well as machine parts needed to maintain the printing equipment itself. In 2023, the United States imported more than $409 million worth of paper, much of which is used for printing books. As much as 73% of that came from Canada.”

“Through the APFJ pilot program, which is supported by the Google News Initiative, participating newsrooms will receive a selection of AP text, video and photo content and access to editorial tools and training to further support their newsgathering work.”

“One area of vulnerability is third-party providers that journalists might use during their reporting. That includes communications platforms like Gmail and Slack, as well as transcription services like Otter. Newsrooms should understand those platforms’ document retention policies and how they would respond to a subpoena. Newsrooms can try to negotiate with these third-party providers to get assurances on these issues, Baranetsky said.”

Mukherjee is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print, and digital journalism. She will succeed Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, who was the Institute’s director from 2018 to 2024.

“A deal would be a remarkable concession by a major U.S. media company to a politician, especially in a case in which there is no evidence that the network got facts wrong or damaged the plaintiff’s reputation. Mr. Trump claims that ’60 Minutes’ deceptively edited an interview last fall with former Vice President Kamala Harris, his opponent in the presidential election campaign. The network says the editing is protected by the First Amendment.”

“The origin of the report remains unclear. The headline was circulating on social media by 10:13 a.m., when a widely followed X account known as Walter Bloomberg posted it. That anonymous account has for years posted trading-related news throughout the market day, often in the form of all-caps newswire headlines copy-and-pasted from the Bloomberg Terminal. The account, which has nearly one million followers, isn’t associated with Bloomberg News. The Walter Bloomberg account and others like it are popular with market watchers who don’t have access to Bloomberg’s expensive news-and-data terminals.”

“Meta said the Instagram teen accounts were used by 54 million under-18s around the world, with more than 90% of 13- to 15-year-olds keeping on their default restrictions.”

“The news, for the most part, follows events forward in time. Each day—or every few hours—newly published stories track what’s happened. The problem with this approach is presentism. In reporting on the dismantling of the federal agency U.S.A.I.D., for instance, news organizations weren’t able to dedicate much space to discussing the agency’s history. But A.I. systems are biased toward the past—they are smart only because they’ve learned from what’s already been written—and they move easily among related ideas.”