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Personal news: Friday was my last day @ ProPublica. It was a thrill to work in one of the world's best newsrooms. More news soon about what's next. Feel free to reach out abt working together or workshops for your org! Sub to my newsletter to follow my next steps: digitalinvestigations.substack.com

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

submitted 62 days ago • 100 comments

NEW: @law360.bsky.social has created a public database of legal cases involving President Trump's executive orders and other actions. The data is searchable and sortable and will be updated regularly; links to coverage for subscribers. Graphics by @benjayingly.com www.law360.com/trump-legal-...

submitted 81 days ago • 16 comments

New from me: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed: www.propublica.org/article/face...

submitted 82 days ago • 99 comments

@mommamia.bsky.social Hi! I'm a reporter with ProPublica. I was wondering if you took the photo in this post? Could you message me here or contact me at [email protected]? Thank you! bsky.app/profile/momm...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

The “Machines That Fail Us” podcast is so back. Season 2 starts with a great chat with @craigsilverman.bsky.social on AI, disinfo, fears and myths. Listen here (or on your fav podcast platform): www.unisg.ch/en/newsroom/.... Cheers

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Time is running out to apply for the Global Investigative Journalism Network's free Cyber Investigations Training Course! Journalists (staff/freelance) learn to investigate the digital environment and to expose attacks and manipulation. Apply by Feb. 1: gijn.org/stories/digi...

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

New study finds that three different strategies of countering politically polarized misinformation failed to reduce misinformed beliefs in a Hong Kong sample. ijoc.org/index.php/ij... #MisinfoResearch

submitted 129 days ago • 7 comments

I encourage anyone interested in Meta’s decision to stop working with US fact checkers to read this analysis of the program and decision from @mantzarlis.com: open.substack.com/pub/fakedup/...

submitted 129 days ago • 8 comments

Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation. Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.

submitted 130 days ago • 112 comments

Massive change at Meta, as Zuckerberg announces they’re ditching fact checkers in the US and replacing them with community notes. Meta is probably the single largest funder of fact checking in the world right now. But that appears to be coming to an end. www.facebook.com/share/v/18Rc...?

submitted 130 days ago • 38 comments

🕵️‍♀️ Learn to geolocate images, analyze digital footprints and verify online content in our 5-week course, New Digital Investigative Techniques. Led by top journalists Craig Silverman & Jane Lytvynenko. Starts Jan. 13! 🚨 Register now!

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UnitedHealth has been limiting access to important autism treatment, leaving children and their parents stranded: www.propublica.org/article/unit...

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Hegseth has said that he got into West Point but didn’t attend. We asked West Pt public affairs, which told us twice on the record that he hadn’t even applied there. We reached out. Hegseth's spox gave us his acceptance letter. We didn't publish a story. That's journalism.

submitted 157 days ago • 105 comments

Read @annamerlan.bsky.social's fascinating reporting from the Alex Jones-Onion bankruptcy showdown. This is the best article out there on what's gone on the last two days www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 157 days ago • 12 comments

Summarization tools for text, audio and video from Journalist's Toolbox:

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

If you haven’t had a conversation with your boomer parents about scam websites and investment schemes, please do not hesitate. Scammers have gotten so advanced. Take the time to talk to your parents and grandparents. Send articles or podcasts.

submitted 158 days ago • 22 comments

The White Helmets have finished searched the Saydnaya complex for hidden basements and further detainees - they've found none and believe that all the detainees have been rescued. whitehelmets.org/node/1691

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 159 days ago • 7 comments

Another week, another thread of online first articles on the far right, populism, radicalism etc. Since so many colleagues have joined BlueSky, I focus mostly on articles that I havent retweeted yet 1. A. Yates: Pluralising pluralism in the study of populism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

I had to watch 45 hours of Kash Patel’s Epoch Times show www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 160 days ago • 263 comments

A must read. “Are you killing your patients?” A Montana Hospital Let Dr. Thomas Weiner Continue Practicing Despite Concerns @davidmcswane.bsky.social

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New: Trump won the popular vote narrowly. But in news deserts—counties where there are no local news sources or reporters —he won in a landslide. Latest by me and @volk_maps for Medill School’s Local News Initiative. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/1...

submitted 163 days ago • 67 comments

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 421 days ago • 987 comments

Meta released a review of activity on its platforms during an unprecedented year of elections. It covers a lot of ground but fails to address how Meta’s political ad system has been abused to scam and deceive people on a global scale during such a critical year for democracy. Here’s a rundown 🧵:

submitted 163 days ago • 8 comments

"So deepfake Elon Musk clickbait was used to sell deepfake Schwarzenegger endorsements of shady supplements. That’s 2024 in a nutshell for you." fakedup.substack.com...

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

I believe some people can be comforted and helped by AI companions, but it seems clear that the companies making them are not acting responsibly. Excellent from Josh Dzieza www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

submitted 165 days ago • 18 comments

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submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment

The creator of a widely debunked movie that became a central pillar in the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen has admitted that some of the film’s claims are flawed. www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/p...

submitted 165 days ago • 32 comments

Still time to sign up for this! I’ll give a rundown of lots of new and updated tools to help with your reporting:

submitted 166 days ago • 2 comments

Huge news in @semafor.com: Apple employees are suing the company, alleging it’s spied on them through their personal iCloud accounts and non-work devices. So much for all those claims about respecting people’s privacy.

submitted 166 days ago • 13 comments