“The initiative by Il Foglio, a conservative-liberal daily, is part of a month-long journalistic experiment aimed at showing the impact AI technology has ‘on our way of working and our days,’ the newspaper’s editor, Claudio Cerasa, said.”

“‘[The tech companies] are talking a big game on censorship. But at the end of the day, the thing that really hits these companies bottom line is what data they can collect, how they can use that data, whether they can train their AI models on that data, and if this administration is planning to take the foot off the gas there while stepping up its work on censorship,’ [an anonymous source in the FTC] alleges. ‘I think that’s a change big tech would be very happy with.’”

“His resignation came after the Post asked him and the university about complaints from students, professors and [American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop]’s partner journalists about his behavior.”

“The Independent has hired a team to oversee Bulletin, which Broughton said was evidence that AI would not replace traditional journalism but would instead offer new ways of delivering news. The service’s summaries will also be approved by the journalists responsible for the longer-form articles on which the shorter, AI-generated posts will be based. [Christian Broughton, chief executive of The Independent] said the product would involve ‘no scraping [and] no disruptions’ risked by AI-only news services.”

“Why waste your time? Why be around powerful people if the only way they’re using their power is to lie to the public and to demean your profession and to undermine the amendment in the Constitution that your profession is built around?” — Ron Fournier, a former Washington bureau chief for the Associated Press, who said reporters would be better off spending the night calling sources and filing Freedom of Information Act requests.

“The Chinese government has argued that the dominance of American soft power, in the form of these news sources, has undermined China’s security at home and its economic and geopolitical interests abroad…‘Against this backdrop, the actions of the Trump administration are cause for enthusiastic celebration,’ said David Bandurski, the director of the China Media Project, a research organization. ‘In a matter of weeks, Trump seems to have slit the throat of American influence.’”

Leaders of the broadcasters – including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks – have instructed their organizations to continue broadcasting because they believe last weekend’s terminations were unlawful, CNN reported.

“The break with reality has been a long time coming — QAnon and Pizzagate preceded it — but in the pre-pandemic era, it was largely the fringes of the conservative movement. Now it is the main event…The spectacle works because pseudo-events are more exciting than reality; a normal budgetary meeting is a snooze, and normal diplomatic relations rely on closed doors, occurring out of sight of the average voter. Reality TV doesn’t work on this level — and keeping the viewers hooked is the main source of Trump’s and Musk’s respective power. The question is how long the spell will last.”

“Users who are referred from AI search compared to traditional referrals (like a standard Google or Bing search) tend to stay on the site 8 percent longer, browse through different pages 12 percent more, and are 23 percent less likely to just visit the link and leave (or “bounce”). This could suggest that AI tools are directing people to more relevant pages than traditional search.”