“I can confidently say that Fox is bigger than any president. It’s more like a movement and, for some superfans, almost an identity. It’s also a permanent driver of political polarization in America.”

“Voters in swing states from New Hampshire to Alaska are being served ads from Facebook pages like the New Hampshire Daily and The Alaska Navigator. No reporters write the stories these pages share, and none of them carry a byline. Instead, the advertisers are betting that social media users will never click past the negative headlines attacking Democratic Senate candidates.”

—Ruth Margalit, a journalist for The New York Times Magazine, on Israeli news consumption since the October 7, 2023 attacks (Columbia Journalism Review / Amos Barshad)

“That tension has made verification, attribution and open-source reporting more central to daily newsgathering. Techniques including geolocation, satellite imagery and video analysis existed long before Oct. 7, 2023, but Gaza has stress-tested them on an unusual scale, forcing newsrooms to verify material from a place most foreign reporters still cannot independently enter.”

“What we allow these AI gadgets to remember will rewrite culture as we know it. This is why we must reach a societal consensus on what constitutes a recording — and who, if anyone, gets to change that definition.”

“Musubi’s model is designed to be similar in cost and speed to the AI classifier systems that power moderation on most social platforms — but because it has the flexibility of a modern LLM, it can apply complex policies without special training. Even more important, the model won’t need new training when the policy changes, allowing for human policy-setters to iterate as much as they need.”

“Intrinsic says it has already gathered institutional support from investors ‘capable of writing 7-and-8-figure checks’ and is now turning to Letterboxd users for more funding. Interested users can make a minimum $100 investment on the campaign’s WeFunder page or donate smaller amounts through GoFundMe.”

“[The Flyover CEO Cole] Strehlow said he believed the internet is ‘not just about first-party publishers anymore,’ but is ‘really about the people that curate stuff’ for audiences. ‘I think the internet is moving more and more toward aggregation,’ he said.”

“Under the Meta One trial, those restricted from posting links would have to pay $49.99 (£37.65) per month to post eight links, $149.99 (£112.98) to post 20, or $499.99 (£376.60) for an unlimited number (alongside the other perks included).”

“A worthwhile goal might be launching a federation. This structure could allow co-ops to come together, roadmap such a New Deal–style agenda, and hold each other accountable to it. Crucially, it could give readers — who have been equally responsible for making these democratic alternatives viable — the chance to participate at every step, formalizing the openness that already exists between newsrooms and their audiences.”

“In countries like Brazil or India, credit cards aren’t the default way to pay, and platforms don’t always support local payment methods. For many newsletter operators and publishers, adding new ways to get paid could unlock more revenue.”