AI slop is threatening journalism by churning out clickbaity versions of original stories, capturing web traffic, and destroying readers' trust in media. NiemanLab's Ben Paviour takes a look at how it's proliferating, with the help of Google.
Nieman Lab
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs
A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google.
 #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Slop #Journalism #Media #MediaIndustry #Google #Technology #Tech
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Writing at the intersection of technology, journalism, and community.
 )'s keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to communicate safely, and to build community. But we can only do that if we're building with those communities from day one, not building for them based on our assumptions about what they need."
Ben Werdmuller
Why the open social web matters now
The needs are real – and you have so much power.
 #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #CommmunityBuilding #FediForum #Fediverse #Media #ActivityPub #ATProto #Protocols #Technology #Tech
In May 2025, Google began to pay CA$100 million a year to media outlets in order to be exempt from Canada's Online News Act. Gretel Kahn of the University of Oxford's Reuters Institute spoke to representatives from The Logic, @npub1ccc2...32l5, IndigiNews and The Rover about how things are going, who gets the money, and where things stand with Meta, which decided to remove all news for Canadians rather than pay up. “If companies like Google and Facebook want to play that role in being a trusted information source and they want people to come to their platform, trust it and be doing good things with circulating information, I don’t think it’s a crazy idea that they should be expected to pitch in funding journalism,” said The Tyee's Jeanette Ageson.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
How Google’s funding for Canadian news publishers is split – and who benefits the most
A CAD 100m annual payout is reshaping the country’s news ecosystem. Four managers discuss who’s left behind and what it means for democracy
 #Media #SocialMedia #Canada #News #Journalism #Meta #Google
After 29 years of being associated with NBC News, MSNBC is becoming independent, starting with breaking its relationships with correspondents and crews, and ending with a name change to MS NOW. Poynter Institute reports on the official 10 principles of reporting that were circulated to newsrooms staff today, and interviews Brian Carovillano senior vice president of standards and editorial partnerships, about the way forward.
Poynter
Today is MSNBC’s first day apart from NBC. Here is its new code of principles. - Poynter
The new network’s 10 core principles emphasize fairness, accuracy, transparency and firm limits on AI
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