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The Daily Digest: May 01, 2025

“The article will die, should die, but storytelling will not”: Notes from the Nordic AI in Media Summit

Topics included model building, “liquid content,” and European tech sovereignty. By Andrew Deck.
DEVELOPING: TRUMP ADMIN LAUNCHES DRUDGE-LIKE “REAL NEWS” SITE
What we’re reading
The Washington Post / Sarah Ellison and Scott Nover
Fox’s false claims about 2020 race were an audience strategy, Smartmatic says →

“Smartmatic’s filing details a coordinated campaign — called ‘the pivot’ — after which Fox executives decided to ’embrace, endorse, and amplify baseless election fraud claims.’

Generative AI in the Newsroom / Clare Spencer
How Full Fact uses generative AI to find harmful health advice →

“These legacy AI systems relied mainly on keyword and topic detection. Now with generative AI Full Fact can rank health-related claims by potential harm … They also use AI to search through and find repeats of what Full Fact have already fact checked and then automatically alert fact checkers.”

TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Threads tops 350 million monthly users, after adding 30 million in the quarter →

“It’s also worth noting that in a single quarter, Threads added nearly the same number of users to its network as one of its newer competitors, Bluesky. The latter, a decentralized social app, today has roughly 35 million users.”

Adweek / Mark Stenberg
The Washington Post is pivoting its events strategy →

“Under the new plan, The Post expects to host roughly 30 to 40 events this year, including about 10 major franchise-style gatherings. Recent examples include The Ship, an inaugural event focused on leadership and mentorship, and Post Next, a forward-looking franchise that spotlights emerging figures across business, technology, and culture.”

New York Magazine / John J. Lennon
Is true crime keeping me in prison? →

“While I have a writing career to push back on the show’s nasty narrative, so many other incarcerated people have no recourse when true crime makes a spectacle of their worst deeds.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Arthur MacMillan
Ryan Lizza on the RFK scandal, his new venture, and Politico’s ‘appalling’ threats →

“I dealt pretty extensively with every media reporter in our business, and I learned one thing that might be useful to your readers: never trust Dylan Byers. He was by far the dumbest reporter that I ever dealt with.”

The Cut / New York Magazine Staff
100 Days, 100 Small Victories →

“The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term feel like they’ve dragged on for an eternity, with each day’s news cycle bringing fresh hell to reckon with. But there is evidence of real political progress if you dig below the onslaught of dire headlines, and there are pockets of defiance, even rebellion, to this new governmental order that deserve recognition.”

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