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Craig Silverman, ProPublicaFebruary 25, 2025

As Facebook abandons fact-checking, it’s also offering bonuses for viral content

Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.

Plastic figure resembling a human who sits on a table infront of a laptop in a dark room. Long shadows disseminate a gloomy mood.

Andrew DeckFebruary 20, 2025

Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI

The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs).

Hanaa' TameezJanuary 13, 2025

Beehiiv is the latest platform to try to lure independent journalists with perks

These types of programs are likely to continue to come and go, as the needs of journalists and the platforms’ businesses evolve.

Joshua BentonJanuary 9, 2025

That time Rupert Murdoch endorsed Jimmy Carter (no, really)

It was the first time many Americans saw Rupert Murdoch using his news outlets to advance his interests — and a lesson in how a media mogul’s outside financial ties can taint the editorial product.

Alexios MantzarlisJanuary 8, 2025

Let’s fact-check Mark Zuckerberg’s fact-checking announcement

Zuckerberg didn’t mention that a big chunk of the content fact-checkers have been flagging is not political speech, but the low-quality spammy clickbait that Meta platforms have commodified.

“A hard hit for the fact-checking community and journalism”: Meta eliminates fact-checking in the U.S.

Andrew DeckJanuary 7, 2025

Thousands of documentaries are fueling AI models built by Apple, Meta, and Nvidia

Subtitles for documentaries by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline and BBC’s Panorama, were used to train LLMs.

Sophie CulpepperNovember 19, 2024

The Green Line creates local news for the people turning away from “big-J journalism”

The Green Line combines events, explainers, and solutions to appeal to young Torontonians.

Joshua BentonSeptember 25, 2024

What would Project 2025 do for (or to) journalism?

From defunding NPR and PBS to kicking reporters out of the White House, it’s an array of conservative priorities and Trumpian retreads.

Sophie CulpepperSeptember 11, 2024

The California Google deal could leave out news startups and the smallest publishers

“We don’t know whether or how this nonprofit and its fund will operate, and likely won’t for some months (nonprofit governance is many things, but fast is not one of them).”

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