“Trust in the media did not evaporate; it fractured.”

“Unlike traditional culture, which follows, say, the steady release of movies and TV shows, internet culture spirals in on itself. When we say meme in 2024, we’re not talking about a straightforward text graphic or even a person from a viral YouTube video. To understand a meme now, you must know the layers of context that came before it and the mechanisms of the platform it sprang from, the details of which not everyone is familiar with.”

“Microsoft says that Iran has been able to keep up its operations targeting the U.S. election, particularly targeting the Trump campaign and attempting to foment anti-Israel sentiment. Russian actors, meanwhile, have been focused on targeting the Harris campaign with character attacks and AI-generated content, including deepfakes. And China has shifted its focus in recent weeks, researchers say, to target down-ballot Republican candidates as well as sitting members of Congress who promote policies adversarial to China or in conflict with its interests.”

Apple software chief Craig Federighi “said that Apple is ‘concerned’ about AI’s impact on how ‘people view photographic content as something they can rely on as indicative of reality.'”

“I’ve been at the New York Times for 12½ years. I’ve been on call for all the presidential elections during that time, and the midterms — things go wrong all night. If engineers with critical knowledge of those systems aren’t there … that could really go through the whole business.”

“Established news outlets have largely been behind the curve on TikTok, where viewers often prefer colloquial videos from individual commentators over traditional news anchors speaking from behind a desk. But several outlets, including The Daily Mail, CNN and NBC News, have made strides this cycle by posting debate snippets, interview clips and their own analyses.”

“For those whose job it is to study the election, the question is whether the enthusiasm of a relatively small number of crypto-savvy bettors—Polymarket has roughly a hundred and fifty thousand active accounts as of October—is actually in any way indicative of reality, or whether the bets might constitute a form of manipulation, astroturfing momentum for Trump.”

“[The Rest is Politics’] format is hardly revolutionary. In hour-long shows the pair talk about the state of their respective parties, the war in the Middle East, elections in Japan and much else besides. But its success reveals two things about British politics.”

“Trump’s declarations arrive at a time of increasing concern about his more autocratic impulses. And press advocates say he is intentionally fueling a climate hostile to independent reporting.”