“The Times’s use of the technology came to light thanks to leaked code showing that it developed a tool that would use OpenAI to generate headlines for articles and ‘help apply The New York Times styleguide’ — performing functions that, if applied in the newsroom, are normally undertaken by editors at the newspaper.”

“The broader instinct to keep the far right from holding institutional power at all costs held for decades, not only in French partisan politics but in other spheres of society, including the media. In some places, something like it holds still. Ahead of the first round, more than a hundred news outlets signed an open letter calling for a journalistic ‘common front’ against the far right and warning that its arrival in power would constitute a mortal threat to press freedom […]”

“Eventually, certain climate-related extreme weather events may become so repetitive that their danger—though no less threatening—might cease to feel exceptional. Some call this human quirk “shifting baseline syndrome.” Emergency managers call it “alert fatigue.” It may be one of the biggest problems facing their field as climate disasters mount.”

“As a wave of evangelical conservatism surges across Brazil, a cohort of popular evangelical YouTubers — including Malafaia — are voicing an anti-leftist sentiment through their online platforms. Their supporters have garnered significant political clout, pushing Lula to engage with their bloc ahead of October’s municipal elections.”

“Smartmatic built a global business by using technology to better engage citizens, regardless of party or ideology, by making voting simple and trustworthy,” Hoffman said. “After Donald Trump lost in 2020, however, Smartmatic became a target of the defamatory campaign to overturn his defeat.”

“The NYT submitted a filing on Wednesday [July 3] asserting that OpenAI’s request “serves no purpose other than harassment and retaliation for The Times’s decision to file this lawsuit.”

In Spanish: “The list of more than 100 political prisoners includes TikTokers such as Geovany López Acevedo, who was arrested by the National Police on November 22 for criticizing news anchors of the pro-government Channel 13. There is also a journalist in custody, Victor Ticay, who was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for broadcasting an event by the Catholic Church for his news outlet La Portada.”

“On Saturday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said separate Israeli strikes killed three journalists in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the territory and two in Gaza City, raising to at least 158 the number of media workers killed since the current war erupted on October 7.”

“If JPMorgan really wanted to support local journalism, it could give direct grants or offer low/no fee loans to local news orgs. That would truly help local journalism and do what the bank does best because local news orgs generally suck at financials. Think of the potential of local bank managers working with news orgs to help them manage their finances and develop a path to sustainability. The news orgs benefit, JPMorgan makes a real difference, the burden is diffused among local branches, and everyone wins. So why does JPMorgan need AJP?”

“If you’re not thinking about reporting for people who have a lot of different demographic backgrounds in your community, you’re probably not doing good journalism. And so it’s not only doing a disservice to BIPOC communities, it’s doing a disservice to white members of the community too, because they’re going to get a distorted understanding of their world. It’s a problem for everyone.”

“Policymakers, journalists, civil society experts, and researchers need to resist the argument that crucial questions about social media and democracy are somehow settled by a narrow set of results from research conducted four years ago. Instead, we all need to push for policies that provide independent researchers the access to data bringing greater clarity to the complicated relationship between platforms and politics.”

“Rather than convening a panel of experts talking in wondrous wonky detail about policy details and insider wheeling and dealing, Herndon’s approach is to get out and find the people who are actually going to decide this thing.”