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Top news of the week: 19.03.2023.

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@jeffjarvis shared
On Mar 18, 2023
The Internet Archive--like every library--is a best defense against the lies of LLMs and of anyone. The irony is that in fighting against the archive, publishers fight against their own value. Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie https://t.co/IoSis6a7vU
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Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie

Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie

Or that they haven’t already started to pollute Google searches. And if publishers win their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, verifying facts and quotes will get a lot harder.

@sivavaid shared
On Mar 19, 2023
RT @TheAtlantic: Trump “upped the ante,” @RadioFreeTom writes. "He is warning all of us, point-blank, that he will violate the law if he wants to, and if you don’t like it, you can take it up with the mob that he can summon at will.” https://t.co/bX53dsPX5g
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Trump Did It Again

Trump Did It Again

If arrested, he’s called on “protesters” to come to his defense.

@sivavaid shared
On Mar 17, 2023
RT @RadioFreeTom: New piece by @KatherineJWu about the debate over COVID's origins. It's ping-ponged between two theories: one a wild-animal source, the other that the pathogen leaked from a lab. We now have the strongest evidence yet an animal started the pandemic: /1 https://t.co/YeroVL2NFk
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The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic

The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic

A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic’s origin to raccoon dogs.

@NiemanLab shared
On Mar 14, 2023
RT @bellingcat: Bellingcat's @gianfiorella speaks to @NiemanLab about Bellingcat's ever expanding Discord Community - How Bellingcat gets 15,000 people on Discord to talk about investigative journalism https://t.co/6TmeM1aPnV
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How Bellingcat gets 15,000 people on Discord to talk about investigative journalism

How Bellingcat gets 15,000 people on Discord to talk about investigative journalism

"I picture a Discord server like a room full of chairs and people sitting and talking to each other, while posting on Twitter is like putting up a banner at a corner of a street."

@mediagazer shared
On Mar 14, 2023
Reach plans to make "significant changes" to its editorial operations; the National Union of Journalists says the cuts will impact 192 editorial jobs (@charlottetobitt / Press Gazette) https://t.co/XrCFNcSEd4 https://t.co/60Ig679msO
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Reach warns of ‘online attention recession’ as it tells staff of ‘significant’ new job cuts

Reach warns of ‘online attention recession’ as it tells staff of ‘significant’ new job cuts

Reach has told staff it is planning to make "significant changes" to its editorial operations, which will mean more redundancies.

@NiemanLab shared
On Mar 15, 2023
RT @risj_oxford: Our journalist @gretelkahn explores how news media in #Venezuela are shifting to digital to fight government censorship 🇻🇪 A new piece featuring @LuzMelyReyes from @EfectoCocuyo @Pmarcano11 from @ArmandoInfo @carlosarcila @infocracia from @cotejoinfo https://t.co/wXeGAWSQSc
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Forced out from print and airwaves, news media in Venezuela shift to digital to survive

Forced out from print and airwaves, news media in Venezuela shift to digital to survive

As legacy news outlets close due to government pressure, independent news sites keep reporting despite legislation and internet blockages In the last two decades, dozens of news …

@jbenton shared
On Mar 17, 2023
RT @stevanzetti: The first part of a two-part investigation is finally up on @TexasObserver. It's about a set of four astroturf groups in Dallas and how right-wing news outlets funded by billionaires have been lending their legitimacy to them—primarily Dallas Express. 1/ https://t.co/D4zX1AntQ2
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Dallas Has a Problem With ‘Zombie’ Astroturf Groups

Dallas Has a Problem With ‘Zombie’ Astroturf Groups

Despite being exposed as bogus, some right-wing organizations keep coming back from the dead. No one knows who is funding them.

@mediagazer shared
On Mar 15, 2023
A journalists' union in Greece apologized for downplaying repeated warnings about the country's rail system; some blame a deficit of accountability journalism (@jon_allsop / Columbia Journalism Review) https://t.co/G14Q7CFc4b https://t.co/7LkPDKgqfJ
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A rail disaster spurs a media reckoning

A rail disaster spurs a media reckoning

<p>Two weeks ago, a passenger train and a freight train collided on the line between Athens and Thessaloniki, in Greece. Several carriages of the passenger train derailed; some caught fire. ...