Top news of the week: 19.03.2023.
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.
Trump Did It Again
If arrested, he’s called on “protesters” to come to his defense.
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.
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."
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.
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 …
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.
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. ...