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New from 404 Media: we went deep into 'AI pimping' industry. AI-generated influencers stealing content from human adult creators, putting AI faces on them, monetizing their bodies. They call it "the loneliness business." Instagram doing nothing to stop 404media.co/inside-the-boo…

Donald Trump voters "were not operating on a plane of shared facts." That's what @juliaprestonnow, a former New York Times and Marshall Project reporter turned Kamala Harris canvasser, quickly came to believe while knocking on Pennsylvania voters' doors this fall... 🧵

We love Damien - he’s a great media scholar and an excellent colleague and presence in the field. Thanks too to the Columbia Daily Spectator for taking an interest in what we do Tow Center

The Notebook LM capabilities …the latest in a long list of something to worry about if you care about legitimate journalism

In August, the Bulwark told me it noticed a large portion of its growing YouTube audience was watching its podcasts/clips on TV. Today, YouTube reported that people are watching 400 million hours of podcasts monthly on TVs. Another way pods have displaced cable news/talk shows.

It takes courage to write this . On the issue of rape gangs - suzanne moore gets it right. It’s an age-old issue, routinely ignored by police and the media until it suits the agenda archive.ph/2025.01.06-202…

It is wild that one of vectors of this falsity spreading was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times.

New from 404 Media: “It’s total chaos internally at Meta right now.” We spoke to five current Meta employees, said staff are furious about Meta's content policy changes. Especially around the anti-LGBTQ changes. 404media.co/its-total-chao…

NEW: Hannah is my ex-step daughter. And when I was in middle of my Cambridge Analytica investigation, she had a stalker. Stalkers. A whole cast of characters making her life hell. In 2021, I approached the BBC: could we try & nail the perpetrator(s)? 1/ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sta…

As a sceptic in terms of his performances, I am becoming a Mikel Merino fan despite my initial reservations. Great interview doing the rare thing of getting inside a player’s thought processes

With 23andMe going into Ch11 bankruptcy, your genomic data, if you ever used the service, will be raffled off to the highest bidder. Below are steps you should take to delete it

I wrote a story for the New Yorker about getting Botox. It’s probably a nice break from the news, if nothing else.

BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian-born green card holder and student at Columbia University, deeply involved in pro-Palestinian activism, has been arrested by HSI agents in Vermont in the middle of his appointment to become a U.S. citizen. Madawi grew up in a Palestinian

Harvard FTW: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."

Columbia's Philosophy Department, where Mohsen Mahdawi is a student, has posted a statement about his detention on their website:

This is the talk of all group chats today

.ProPublica wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its amazing coverage of the consequences of abortion bans, showcasing the women who died. It’s the second year in a row in which ProPublica has won the Pulitzer Gold Medal! 🎉

Maybe Elon will start refunding universities…..

Congrats to those for whom being catastrophically online is paying off big time today