"Alabama Community News LLC is not a real corporation, and 1819 News never funded any roll-up of Alabama weeklies. It’s all fake." (But why?)
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New by me —> Now we're getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news! How a fake news site splits its energy between (a) the imagined closure of real US newspapers and (b) Chinese-friendly takes on Taiwan - "Why would a spam site bother making up a story about Alabama weekly newspapers, of all things? Whose interest is it in to get that niche? "
- The one-two punch of funding cuts from the U.S. government and big tech platforms has left fact-checking organizations at a crossroads. They can either compete for grants from a dwindling pool of philanthropic support, or they can explore new ways of making money.
- "Our finding that short-form video consumption predicts cultural preference while traditional media consumption does not is not primarily a finding about Messi and Ronaldo. It is a finding about what different distribution environments do to audiences over time, independent of
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I'm a longtime soccer fan and I've been writing about vertical video and news creators for the last few years. Just in time for the Portugal and Argentina matches this week, this Messi-Ronaldo story found me 😇⚽️ - "People like to get weather from people...I think especially now, when AI and bots are taking over the world, that’s a breath of fresh air for people, and so we’re trying to lean into that as much as we can."
- Capital Weather is dropping the “Gang” and going independent
- One in 10 people are now using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Gemini for news weekly, up 3 percentage points from last year.
- A new Beehiiv and Cloudflare partnership will let independent journalists allow or block access for each AI crawler scraping their work.
- SaySo, a video news app that launched in April, aims to provide “vetted creators, real stories, zero doom scroll.”
- Media outlets that require human review of all AI content were seen as more credible, and were chosen as news sources more often, according to a new study.
- This month saw the launch of The Porter Square Review of Books. The store’s booksellers and writers-in-residence have begun publishing weekly book reviews on its website.
