“The original purpose of setting up our WeChat public account is to deliver our news to our readers more effectively and to break the traditional mode of news, that is, the news media’s one-way delivery of information to the readers.”

“Both shows came out of Spotify’s Gimlet Media studio, which often focused on limited series … Stolen’s most recent season about Canada’s residential schools for Indigenous people won a Pulitzer Prize and a Peabody Award. Heavyweight, which premiered its most recent season in October, was just listed as a best podcast of 2023 by the New York Times.”

“So long as Motaz Azaiza is there, risking death on a daily basis, I feel an obligation each day to ignore my urge to flinch and to confront his heart-rending and horrific photographs on Instagram.”

“All of the media companies reviewed — Bloomberg, The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Politico, Reuters, and The Washington Post — consistently top lists of “most-trusted” news outlets. They also all have internal brand studios that create advertising content for major oil and gas companies, furnishing the industry with an air of legitimacy as it pushes misleading climate claims to trusting readers.”

“Today, per Lessin, The Information has 475,000 active readers (i.e., paid subscribers and unpaid newsletter subscribers). According to Lessin, they expect to be profitable this year.”

“X still gets about 100 times more web traffic than Threads worldwide and has more than 11 times more monthly active users of its mobile apps in the U.S., according to David Carr, senior insights manager at data analytics company Similarweb.”

“Your posts matter more than you think. Social media has changed the way wars are fought and the internet has become a new battlefield.”

“As 2023 nears its end, the media grinches are about to steal Christmas for many, as several key outlets are poised to suffer through a final wave of layoffs.”

“The platform dynamics of this terrible abuse are very well known — the only question has been when the company would at long last get around to addressing them.”

According to an investigation by Lupa and Lagom Data, 52% of the initiative’s fact-checks “do not have linked sources, that is, they are not transparent regarding the origin of the information used to deny a rumor, or they rely solely on the government’s own websites when drawing conclusions about the veracity of a matter.”