The New Yorker / Melissa del Bosque
The covert mission to solve a Mexican journalist’s murder →“The murders of [Miroslava Breach] and [Javier Valdez Cárdenas] and the exile of [Patricia Mayorga] had a chilling effect on colleagues left behind. Marcela Turati, one of the country’s most renowned investigative journalists and editors, told me that it felt as though journalism itself was dying in Mexico.”
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Gretel Kahn
Will AI-generated images create a new crisis for fact-checkers? Experts are not so sure →“Visual disinformation is a particular concern since images are especially compelling and they can have a strong emotive impact on audiences’ perceptions … ‘You can talk to a person for an hour and give him 20 arguments for one thing, but if you show him an image that makes sense to him, it is going to be very difficult to convince him that’s not true.’”
Washington Post / Taylor Lorenz
Wall Street Journal / Vivian Salama
Rest of World / Viola Zhou
New York Times / Neil Genzlinger
Al Jaffee, cartoonist who gave a satirical double-take on the news for Mad Magazine, dies at 102 →“When the page was folded in thirds, however, both illustration and text were transformed into something entirely different and unexpected, often with a liberal-leaning or authority-defying message … The fold-in from the Nov. 2001 issue asked, ‘What mind-altering experience is leaving more and more people out of touch with reality?’ The unfolded illustration showed a crowd of people popping and snorting various substances. But when folded, the image transformed into the Fox News anchor desk.”
The Verge / Adi Robertson
Hashtags are everything on Mastodon — why not give them a home? →“Back on Twitter, I kept several columns of search terms open — some for serious topics I was covering, some for personal interests like my favorite games, all of them a potential gateway to an interesting new corner of the service. Mastodon deliberately disallows plaintext search, and despite some attempts to devise an opt-in system for it, the main alternative so far is hashtags.”