Links on Twitter: APIs limit censorship, huge traffic at Gawker Media and The Atlantic, MIT/Knight conference

Crucial: Twitter’s open APIs make it much more difficult to censor than a closed website http://tr.im/oETM (via @citmedialaw) »

Gordon Brown backs broadband for all (“as vital as water and gas”) and ties it to future of local news http://tr.im/oEJA »

Mapping the Arabic blogosphere reveals the most linked-to news sites are Al-Jazeera, BBC, and Al-Arabiya http://tr.im/oHBu »

Gawker Media’s nine blogs are averaging a wild 280 million pageviews/month (but its sex blog is lagging) http://tr.im/oHQj »

Meanwhile, The Atlantic had 1.2 million visits *yesterday* on the back of Andrew Sullivan’s Iran blogging http://tr.im/oHWO »

Excited for #fncm09 tomorrow http://tr.im/oFc0 Let me know if you’ll be there — or if you have questions you want me to ask attendees. »

Sarah Scire

Seeking “innovative,” “stable,” and “interested”: How The Markup and CalMatters matched up

Nonprofit news has seen an uptick in mergers, acquisitions, and other consolidations. CalMatters CEO Neil Chase still says “I don’t think we’ve seen enough yet.”

Jonathan Stray

“Objectivity” in journalism is a tricky concept. What could replace it?

“For a long time, ‘objectivity’ packaged together many important ideas about truth and trust. American journalism has disowned that brand without offering a replacement.”

Renee DiResta, Abhiram Reddy, and Josh A. Goldstein

From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam

Within days of visiting the pages — and without commenting on, liking, or following any of the material — Facebook’s algorithm recommended reams of other AI-generated content.