Links on Twitter: David Carr on comments, Google News experiments with Twitter, Robots are among us

Fire up the RSS reader, here’s a 50 great journalism feeds around data, law, technology and more http://nie.mn/aG4E1g »

Robots among us! .@10000words on the rise of automated journalism in the newsroom http://nie.mn/9BlZ1R »

Guess who’s leading the way for innovation at newspapers? The sports department http://nie.mn/aB7twS »

Google News is experimenting with a Twitter integration http://nie.mn/cJKT2I »

HuffPo makes sure sponsored posts appear as prominently in search engine result pages as their own content http://nie.mn/aeI5Id »

NYT Co. president on the rise of the paywall, they will not retreat from the "online conversation" http://nie.mn/cICwrM »

More details on the new categories in this year’s Knight News Challenge http://nie.mn/btM0U4 »

Got bad comments? @carr2n made the backend of his posts more provocative and it helped. http://nie.mn/cVWS1Q »

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.