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People are getting their news from AI – and it’s altering their views

People are getting their news from AI – and it’s altering their views

When a bot brings you the news, who built it and how it presents the information matter. Zentangle/iStock via Getty Images By Adrian Kuenzler, University of Denver; University of Hong Kong Meta’s decision to end its professional fact-checking program sparked a wave of criticism in the tech and media world. Critics warned that dropping expert oversight could erode trust and reliability in the digital information landscape, especially when profit-driven platforms are mostly left to police themselves. What much of this…

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BBC will fight Trump’s $10bn lawsuit, saying it should be dismissed

BBC will fight Trump’s $10bn lawsuit, saying it should be dismissed

The Guardian reports: The BBC is preparing to argue Donald Trump’s $10bn court case against it should be dismissed, arguing it has no case to answer over the US president’s claims he was defamed by an episode of Panorama. The development comes after Trump filed a 33-page complaint to a Florida court on Monday, accusing the broadcaster of “a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious depiction” of the president in the documentary. On Tuesday, the BBC said it would…

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I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth’s mentor, Eric Geressy, then the threats started

I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth’s mentor, Eric Geressy, then the threats started

Dan Friedman writes: Six weeks ago, Jack Posobiec asked me to comment on whether I have a “creepy fetish for Asian women.” That was one of several false and wildly personal allegations that the far-right pundit and newly minted member of the Pentagon press corps said that he planned to include in “a story that I’m writing about you.” I immediately understood his October 28 email to be a threat, though it was not made explicit. The day before, I…

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The newsroom’s AI has a hidden political agenda

The newsroom’s AI has a hidden political agenda

Parker Molloy writes: In October 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that “AI will be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes.” Two years later, we’re watching those strange outcomes unfold in real time. And in 2026, they’re going to collide with journalism in ways most reporters won’t even notice. Here’s what’s happening: The Trump administration has been systematically pushing to reshape AI systems according to its…

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The Ellisons: The billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor

The Ellisons: The billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor

Will Alden writes: In early September, the Hollywood producer Lawrence Bender — known for his work with Quentin Tarantino on films including “Pulp Fiction” and “Inglourious Basterds” — had what he later described as “a really tough conversation” with the investors in “Red Alert,” an Israeli miniseries that dramatizes the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. With just weeks remaining before the anticipated release on the second anniversary of the attacks, the show, produced by Israeli mass media company Keshet…

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Censoring remarks on Trump: The BBC succumbs to the ‘paralysing cowardice’ of today’s elites

Censoring remarks on Trump: The BBC succumbs to the ‘paralysing cowardice’ of today’s elites

The Guardian reports: The BBC has been plunged into a new row over its treatment of Donald Trump, after an academic accused it of censoring his remarks about alleged corruption by the US president. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch author and historian, said the BBC had removed a “key line” from a flagship address he had been invited to give by the corporation. Bregman, who is giving the BBC’s prestigious annual Reith Lectures, said his claim that Trump was “the most…

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Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks

Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks

The Guardian reports: Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks, and one official has discussed potential programming changes at CNN with Larry Ellison, the largest shareholder of Paramount. The discussions, according to people familiar with the matter, come as Paramount portrays itself as the best bid for Warner Bros Discovery, after the company announced last month it was open to offers, because it would have an easier…

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‘A lot of people didn’t like’ Khashoggi, said Trump as MBS was questioned about the journalist’s murder

‘A lot of people didn’t like’ Khashoggi, said Trump as MBS was questioned about the journalist’s murder

I pressed Trump on MBS's role in the Khashoggi killing during a tape-recorded interview on Jan. 22, 2020:“I’ve gotten involved very much,” Trump said. “I know everything about the whole situation.”So what happened, sir? I asked.“I saved his ass," Trump said. “That’s what… — Bob Woodward (@realBobWoodward) November 18, 2025 The New York Times reports: “Things happen.” That was how President Trump described the murder of the columnist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday afternoon while sitting beside Crown Prince Mohammed bin…

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Michael Wolff’s questionable explanation for cozying up to Jeffrey Epstein

Michael Wolff’s questionable explanation for cozying up to Jeffrey Epstein

David A. Graham writes: In her classic book The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm studied how the author Joe McGinniss buttered up the accused killer Jeffrey MacDonald—formally joining his legal-defense team and sending fawningly supportive letters after his conviction—only to turn around and publish a scathing book portraying him as a sociopath. Observing McGinniss’s approach, Malcolm draws a distinction between the reporting phase, when a journalist courts her subject, and the writing phase, when she betrays them. Many reporters…

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The BBC must not be cowed by Trump’s threats

The BBC must not be cowed by Trump’s threats

Alan Rusbridger writes: There’s one way the BBC could retrieve some dignity from the smoking rubble of the past week. It should send Donald Trump a four-word reply to his blustering threat to sue the corporation in Florida for $1bn in damages: “See you in court.” There’s barely a notable news organisation in the US that Trump hasn’t yet sued. ABC News and CBS News have demonstrated the resolve of a jellyfish in stumping up millions to settle lawsuits that…

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Trump takes on BBC with $1bn lawsuit threat after bosses quit

Trump takes on BBC with $1bn lawsuit threat after bosses quit

  The Guardian reports: A BBC board member with links to the Conservative party “led the charge” in pressuring the corporation’s leadership over claims of systemic bias in coverage of Donald Trump, Gaza and transgender rights, the Guardian has been told. Sources said Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s former communications chief who was appointed to the BBC’s board during Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister, amplified the criticisms in key board meetings that preceded the shock resignation of the director general,…

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A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that led to his resignation

A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that led to his resignation

Alan Greenblatt writes: The censorship you never hear about may be the worst, or at least the most insidious. Thankfully, many journalists are speaking out at a crucial moment for the press. Virtually every major outlet refused the Pentagon’s edict that they publish or broadcast only information handed to them by the Department of Defense (which the administration calls the Department of War). And there have been several other examples just in recent days of journalists leaving their jobs in…

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Top U.S. media, including conservative outlets, reject new Pentagon press restrictions

Top U.S. media, including conservative outlets, reject new Pentagon press restrictions

  The Department of Defense has introduced a new press policy requiring the Pentagon to authorize any reporting on itself. Top TV news outlets have rejected the pledge; only the far-right outlet One America News has agreed to sign on. Dozens of reporters with the Pentagon Press Association turned in their government-issued press badges and left the building Wednesday rather than agree to the rules. “The Trump administration has made the suppression of speech that it doesn’t like a governing…

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Pope Leo urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

The Associated Press reports: Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective press. History’s first American pope called for imprisoned journalists to be released and said the work of journalists must never be considered a crime. Rather, journalism is a right and a pillar upholding “the edifice of our societies” that must be protected and defended,…

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Retaliation: State violence is targeting journalists

Retaliation: State violence is targeting journalists

David Wallace-Wells writes: Last Friday, the 48-year-old Emmy-winning reporter Mario Guevara was deported to El Salvador from an ICE detention facility in Folkston, Ga. He was held in detention there for over 100 days. The state’s filings concerning his detention seem to largely focus on the crime of committing journalism. Guevara was arrested in June at a No Kings rally outside Atlanta, where, while filming the protest for his livestreaming platform MG News, he (clearly wearing a press vest and…

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The corruption and Bari Weiss-ification of the media

The corruption and Bari Weiss-ification of the media

  Eoin Higgins writes: Only a billionaire could look at the sclerotic state of network television news and conclude that the problem is that coverage is not sufficiently to the right. Yet that seems to be exactly the conclusion drawn by David Ellison, the billionaire whose company Skydance just bought CBS through a purchase of its parent, Paramount. Ellison’s latest move was to acquire the conservative outlet The Free Press and make the site’s founder Bari Weiss the editor-in-chief of…

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