🪩 #monday #reflection - 📲 #AI #chatbots are replacing #searchengines —and in the process, they’re gutting the economics of #journalism, #reviews, and the open #internet

In this video, Boyle explores how tools like #ChatGPT, #Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews are intercepting audiences, scraping content without compensation, and threatening the viability of independent news and trusted information -

#tech #contentcreator #contentquality

Video credit Patrick Boyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4MruTOrLyM

#JimmyLai, the #HongKong pro- #democracy #media mogul who spent decades as a defiant thorn in Beijing’s side, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison, the harshest penalty ever handed down for a “national security” offense in the semiautonomous territory.

The landmark ruling completes a yearslong effort by Beijing to dismantle the influence of a man it blamed for masterminding Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.

#law #journalism #authoritarianism #China
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/08/world/jimmy-lai-sentenced-hong-kong/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share

🪩 #monday #reflection - 📲 #AI #chatbots are replacing #searchengines —and in the process, they’re gutting the economics of #journalism, #reviews, and the open #internet

In this video, Boyle explores how tools like #ChatGPT, #Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews are intercepting audiences, scraping content without compensation, and threatening the viability of independent news and trusted information -

#tech #contentcreator #contentquality

Video credit Patrick Boyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4MruTOrLyM

“The Washington Post’s decision to cut a large share of its climate and environmental reporters is not just a newsroom story…

cuts to environmental journalism thin the information infrastructure societies rely on to recognize risks and respond before harm becomes harder to reverse.”

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/what-is-lost-when-environmental-coverage-is-cut/

#Democracy #Media #Journalism #Environment #Climate #Green #Oligarchy #WashingtonPost #USPol #Bezos

“The Washington Post’s decision to cut a large share of its climate and environmental reporters is not just a newsroom story…

cuts to environmental journalism thin the information infrastructure societies rely on to recognize risks and respond before harm becomes harder to reverse.”

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/what-is-lost-when-environmental-coverage-is-cut/

#Democracy #Media #Journalism #Environment #Climate #Green #Oligarchy #WashingtonPost #USPol #Bezos

Zukiswa Wanner describes her detention by Israel https://groundup.org.za/article/award-winning-author-zukiswa-wanner-chronicles-her-abduction-and-imprisonment-by-israel/

#GroundUp #News #Journalism #Africa #SouthAfrica

#JimmyLai, the #HongKong pro- #democracy #media mogul who spent decades as a defiant thorn in Beijing’s side, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison, the harshest penalty ever handed down for a “national security” offense in the semiautonomous territory.

The landmark ruling completes a yearslong effort by Beijing to dismantle the influence of a man it blamed for masterminding Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.

#law #journalism #authoritarianism #China
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/08/world/jimmy-lai-sentenced-hong-kong/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share

Zukiswa Wanner describes her detention by Israel https://groundup.org.za/article/award-winning-author-zukiswa-wanner-chronicles-her-abduction-and-imprisonment-by-israel/

#GroundUp #News #Journalism #Africa #SouthAfrica

@randahl tagging #pressFreedom #journalism #WashingtonPost #WaPo ⬆️

Si vous ne l'avez pas encore vu, avec Ost on a fait un épisode de Constraste(s) sur @blast_info pour essayer de comprendre la place des enfants dans notre société 🧩

https://video.blast-info.fr/w/aRBmZ8MzmGNBD4QYnouuF1

#vulgarisation #médiationscientifique #info #actu #enfants #news #sociologie #sciencessociales #journalism

Si vous ne l'avez pas encore vu, avec Ost on a fait un épisode de Constraste(s) sur @blast_info pour essayer de comprendre la place des enfants dans notre société 🧩

https://video.blast-info.fr/w/aRBmZ8MzmGNBD4QYnouuF1

#vulgarisation #médiationscientifique #info #actu #enfants #news #sociologie #sciencessociales #journalism

@jeffjarvis "If someone tells you it's fascism is bad and another tells you it's not, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the fucking Overton window and find out which is true."

#journalism

For the love of all that's holy...

If you are a writer on substack, please consider leaving their platform. They profit from nazi newsletters. Archive link for some alternatives: http://archive.today/0UJXN

"Among them are newsletters that openly promote racist ideology. One, called NatSocToday, which has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80 – about £60 – for an annual subscription, though most of its posts are available for free.

NatSocToday is understood to be run by a far-right activist based in the US and features a swastika, a symbol appropriated by the Nazi party in the 1920s to symbolise white supremacy, as its profile picture. The full name of the Nazi party was the National Socialist German Workers’ party."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

If that's not enough to convince you, see this interview with substack CEO Chris Best..

#FuckTheFash #Substack #DeNazify #PunchNazis #Mastodon #Journalism #Writing #WritingCommunity

Maybe #Bezos doesn't WANT to sell. Maybe he enjoys being the architect of the Washington Post's downfall. #WashingtonPost #journalism #media #DemocracyDiedInDarkness #usa

https://newrepublic.com/post/206237/liberals-save-washington-post-jeff-bezos-layoffs

This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word

#media #journalism #authoritarianism