In the four countries studied, each with its own unique technological, political, and social environment, understanding of algorithms varied across different sociodemographic groups.
“Every country needs to address the theft of intellectual property that diminishes both the incentives and ability to produce the news on which we all — including the platforms — depend. The bargaining codes were a start.”
“The thing that had the strongest connection to someone’s propensity to develop a habit and their propensity to give is sociability — that it gives people things to talk about.”
“Headlines with more common words — simple words like ‘job’ instead of ‘occupation’ — shorter headlines, and those communicated in a narrative style, with more pronouns compared with prepositions, received more clicks.”
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In the four countries studied, each with its own unique technological, political, and social environment, understanding of algorithms varied across different sociodemographic groups.
“Before they ever risk leading to a godlike superintelligence or devastating mass unemployment, they first need training. Instead of using these grandiloquent chatbots to automate us out of our livelihoods, tech companies are contracting us to help train their models.”
“Prioritize small, independent, public service, nonprofit newsrooms. Those newsrooms have to be accountable in more ways than a for-profit newsroom does, because their mission is usually more aligned with the community they represent. They also have limited access to revenue streams available to for-profits, especially if they want to remain independent.”
“Trump has become more incoherent as he has aged, but you wouldn’t know it from most of the press coverage, which treats his utterances as essentially logical policy statements — a ‘sweeping vision,’ even.”
“”A symmetrical response is not possible. There is no state news agency in the US, and there is no state TV channel in the US,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the RIA Novosti news agency. “But there will certainly be measures here that will restrict their media disseminating their information.”
“Is it moral to remain on a platform that does so much to bring the politics of division and hatred off the keyboard and into real life? Is X any worse than Facebook, or TikTok, or (for God’s sake!) YouTube? And is it worse on purpose, which is to say, are we watching the unfolding of a Musk master plan?”
“In my nearly four decades as a foreign correspondent, I have always carried a book of poetry with me. While the images we show have great impact, I feel that journalistic language sometimes fails to convey the intensity of the experience.”
Semafor / Kadia Goba, Ellie Hall, and David Weigel
“The network that would push the sexual smears began with more run-of-the-mill Republican talking points, but it was unusual in one way, a person who participated in its video calls said: None of the participants identified themselves by name, and all joined calls with their cameras off to preserve their mutual anonymity. However, Semafor was able to identify one of them: former New York Republican Rep. George Santos, who spoke up on one conference call to object when the parties discussed making sexual allegations against Harris.”
The New York Times / James B. Stewart and Brooks Barnes
“The New York Times has pieced together what happened inside Disney during those fateful months by talking to scores of people directly involved. Many of them talked extensively for the first time about what transpired, some only on the condition of anonymity because of their nondisclosure agreements with Disney.”
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