“Russia has replaced Wikipedia with a state-sponsored encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Russian Wikipedia but which conveniently has been edited to omit things that could cast the Russian government in poor light. Real Russian Wikipedia editors used to refer to the real Wikipedia as Ruwiki; the new one is called Ruviki, has ‘ruwiki’ in its url, and has copied all Russian-language Wikipedia articles and strictly edited them to comply with Russian laws.”

“It turns out that the teens we interviewed believe social media algorithms like TikTok’s have gotten so good that they see the reflections of themselves in social media as quite accurate. So much so that teens are quick to attribute content inconsistencies with their self-image as anomalies – for instance, the result of inadvertent engagement with past content, or just a glitch.”

“The commission cited concerns over Meta’s plan to discontinue CrowdTangle, a public insights tool that allows real-time disinformation researchers, journalists and others across the EU to monitor the spread of fake news and attempts to suppress voting.”

“Each year, each top executive at Condé Nast’s One World Trade Center headquarters submits a shortlist of four to six people who could replace them. The lists remain secret. But none draws more internal speculation than the one assembled by New Yorker editor David Remnick…in recent months, the longtime New Yorker editor has increasingly mused to peers about his inevitable departure — and who might take his place.”

Jay Cockburn, a radio and podcast producer for The Globe and Mail and Vocal Fry Studios: “It’s like saying ‘video radio.’ It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the medium.'”

“The letter, signed by professors at colleges including New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Emory and the University of Texas, asks the Times to ‘immediately commission a group of journalism experts to conduct a thorough and full independent review of the reporting, editing and publishing processes for this story and release a report of the findings.'”

“Biden is the clear choice of voters who consume newspapers and national network news, while Trump does best among voters who don’t follow political news at all.”

“From this perspective, railing against social media for manipulating our zombie minds is like cursing the wind for blowing down a house we’ve allowed to go to rack and ruin. It distracts us from our collective failures, from the conditions that degrade confidence and leave much of the citizenry feeling disempowered.”