In 2024, Meta shuttered CrowdTangle, a tool used to track how content spread across Facebook and Instagram. The portal was an essential tool for journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers, who used ...
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“It’s terrifying,” Fong told me a couple of weeks before Howtown launched. “We’re not young kids with infinite energy and confidence. We are well into our 30s and know that most things probably fail, ...
Want your favorite social media platform to just show you your friends' posts — not a bunch of unrelated things it thinks you ...
Climate.us, spearheaded by three former NOAA staffers (two of whom are sisters) is picking up where the government site, an ...
The Department of Justice filing argues that large publishers will disproportionately benefit if AI companies have to pay to ...
At its annual iPhonepalooza today, Apple announced a new feature aimed at making it easier to know where an image came from or whether it's been edited — the sort of provenance data that could be ...
On Adam Ganucheau’s first day at Mississippi Today a decade ago, there was no Wi-Fi, and he used an upside-down cardboard box ...
"I think with Trump's first election in 2016, it became painfully clear to the media broadly that you can't just look at the ...
As local and national news outlets continue to disappear across the U.S., I’d always thought that the military newspaper Stars and Stripes offered one model for a partial solution: government ...
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