The Media Stories

Axios CEO Believes AI Will 'Eviscerate the Unprepared' Among Media Companies 50
Mock 'News' Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S. 199
'Communications of the ACM' Is Now Open Access 25
EFF Challenges 'Legal Bullying' of Sites Reporting on Alleged Appin 'Hacking-for-Hire' 16
Craig Newmark Donates $10M to Help CUNY Journalism School Become Tuition-Free 37
Did a US Hedge Fund Help Destroy Local Journalism? 125
How AI-Generated Content Could Fuel a Migration From Social Media to Independent 'Authored' Content 68
The New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Use of Copyrighted Work 59
Reactions Continue to Viral Video that Led to Calls for College Presidents to Resign 414
CNN Criticizes Microsoft's 'Making a Mess of the News' By Replacing MSN's Staff With AI 74
Will 'News Influencers' Replace Traditional Media? 123
Tens of Millions Now Work in the $250B 'Creator Economy' 95
Newspapers Want Payment for Articles Used to Power ChatGPT 151
What Happens When Major Online Platforms Lower Traffic to News Sites? 101
Can Philanthropy Save Local Newspapers? 122
Rupert Murdoch To Step Down as Chair of Fox and News Corp After Seven-Decade Career 167
Gannett Halts AI-Written Sports Recaps After Readers Mocked the Stories 51
FTX's Celebrity Endorser Tom Brady Faces Worthless Stock, Lawsuits 83
How An AI-Written 'Star Wars' Story Created Chaos at Gizmodo 91
Why Major Newspapers Didn't Publish 'UFO Retrieval' Story 170
Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Test of AI Content 159
SiriusXM To Shut Down Stitcher Podcast App 15
Russian Coup Aided by Telegram, VPNs as Government Blocks Google News 140
Is AI Making Silicon Valley Rich on Other People's Work? 111
Vice Media Group Preps $400 Million Sale To George Soros and Fortress 53
Vice Media Group Prepares For Bankruptcy 44
Fake DMCA Takedowns Blocking Journalists' Stories 47
CNET Used AI to Write 75 Articles 44
Did YouTube Pay Too Much to Broadcast Sunday Football Games? 45
TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists 59
Senator Urges Automakers to Keep Making Cars with AM Radio 320
What Happened After Matt Taibbi Revealed Twitter's Deliberations on Hunter Biden Tweets? 377
Media Groups Urge US To Drop Julian Assange Charges 100
Do Screens Before Bedtime Actually Improve Your Sleep? 45
Mystery of BBC Radio's First Broadcasts Revealed 100 Years On 13
Pranksters Posing as Laid-Off Twitter Employees Trick Media Outlets 123
Facebook Warns It Could Block News in Canada Over Proposed Legislation 93
Report that Indian Official Tampers With Instagram Posts Retracted By 'The Wire' 9
New York Times' Lunchbox Perk Backfires Amid Work-From-Home Protest 81
Asia's Richest Man To Buy Majority Stake in News Organization in 'Hostile' Takeover 9
CERN Is Totally Not Opening a Portal To Hell 214
Are Reviewers Refusing to Compare Wintel Laptops to Apple Silicon? 323
Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows 326
Nearly a Third of New Subscribers To News Publications Cancel in the First 24 Hours 45
65 Editorial Workers at Wired Are Threatening to Strike 51
70-Year-Old Cyberpunk: 'This Interview Is a Mistake' 37
Open-Source Intelligence: How Bellingcat Uses Data Gathered by Authoritarian Governments 52
Ubiquiti Files Case Against Security Blogger Krebs Over 'False Accusations' 32
Tech Workers at New York Times Vote to Certify Union 181
Australia's Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked - Sort Of 48
Anonymous Launches Attacks Against Russia and Pledges Support For Ukraine 73
This Year's Super Bowl Broadcast May Seem 'Crypto-Happy'. But the NFL Isn't 65
Journalist Labeled 'Hacker' By Missouri's Governor Will Not Be Prosecuted 114
Are TED Talks Just Propaganda For the Technocracy? 151
Major US News Publisher Breached, Chinese Supply-Chain Attack Suspected 73
James Cameron Warns of 'The Dangers of Deepfakes' 83
Former Employees Allege Most of Ozy's 26M Newsletter Subscribers Were Purchased, Borrowed, or Kept Against Their Will 34
Russia Tells Its Space Reporters To Stop Reporting On the Space Program 54
Bought Web Traffic and A Fake YouTube Executive: the Spectacular Failure of Ozy 49
WSJ: Facebook's 2018 Algorithm Change 'Rewarded Outrage'. Zuck Resisted Fixes 54
Some 9/11 News Coverage is Lost. Blame Adobe Flash 117
Snopes.com Co-Founder Accused of Copying from Other Sites Without Attribution 126
YouTube Bans Sky News Australia for One Week Over Misinformation 288
YouTube Stars Were Offered Money to Spread Vaccine Misinformation 255
America's FBI Withdraws Demand for IP Addresses of Readers of a Newspaper's Story During a 35-Minute Window 257
Coinbase Launches 'Fact Check,' a Section on its Blog To Combat Misinformation about the Company and Crypto World 49
Musk's Claims Challenged About Absence of Autopilot in Texas Tesla Crash 205
Facebook Mistakenly Deletes Page for the Town of Bitche, France 76
'Why We're Freaking Out About Substack' 113
How an Online 'Lego' Gamer Infiltrated the White House Press Corps 34
Would You Tell an Angel Investor How to Start a New Country? 59
How Should the Media Depict Autism? 117
How 'Rest of World' Wants to Change International Tech Coverage 19
US Media Offering a Different Picture of Covid-19 From Science Journals or International Media, Study Finds 175
Beijing Asks Alibaba To Shed Its Media Assets 84
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter Agree to Australia's Misinformation-Fighting Code 164
WHO Team Member to New York Times: What We Learned in China 168
Two WHO Team Members Dispute Report China Wasn't Cooperative for Covid-19 Investigation 95
China's CGTN No Longer Has Permission To Broadcast in Germany 22
BBC World News Barred From Airing in China 156
8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR For Lack Of Dinosaur Stories 115
A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society? 216
How Reddit's Co-Founder, Jim Cramer, and Wall Street Reacted to GameStop's Surge 180
Boston Globe Will Consider People's Requests To Have Articles About Them Anonymized 35
Online Misinformation Dropped Dramatically After Twitter Banned Trump 265
Among 2020's Most Underreported Stories: Pharmaceutical Profiteering May Accelerate Superbugs 86
China Jails Citizen Journalist for Wuhan Reports 211
A Deepfake Queen Delivered an Alternative Christmas Speech to Warn about Misinformation 47
Are Cryptocurrencies Becoming Mainstream Investments? 135
Amazon Fire TV Adds Local News In 12 U.S. Cities, With 90 More Coming In 2021 20
What Hunting Bigfoot Taught a Republican Congressman about Misinformation, Political Extremists, and Grift 180
Conspiracy Theorists Who'd First Popularized QAnon Now Accused of Financial Motives 152
How Powerful Forces Collaborated to Peddle Misinformation about the Origins of the Coronavirus 280
Election-Related Misinformation on Social Media Still 'Readily Viewable' - If It's In Spanish 44
Snopes.com Exposes 4chan Campaign to 'Kindle Mistrust in Snopes' 264
Is QAnon an 8Chan Game Gone Wrong? 190
Google Halts Its Curated News Plan in Australia, Calling Government's Rules 'Unworkable' 52
Boardwatch/EVTV Founder Jack Rickard Dies at Age 65 23
Facebook Threatens To Cut Off Australians From Sharing News 52
Google Warns Australians it Really Doesn't Want to Pay for News 114
Larry King Duped Into 'Disinfomercial' on Social Media By China (and Possibly Russia) 100
Bill Gates Has a Message For Conspiracy Theorists 221
Full Text of US State Department Cables Finally Released, Showing Safety In Chinese Lab 220
Hundreds of Hyperpartisan Sites Are Masquerading as Local News 116
Is Twitter Shifting the Balance of Power From Companies to Their Employees? 64
Venture Capitalists' Critiques of Journalism Secretly Leaked to Journalists 118
Is Slashdot the Answer to Facebook's Fake News Problem? 284
US Senate Amends EARN IT Act -- To Let States Restrict Encryption 89
Minecraft Is Now Home To a Virtual Library of Censored Journalism 17
Journalist's Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website. 123
Facebook Will Show Users a Pop-up Warning Before They Share an Outdated Story 44
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (of Technology) 47
Are News Outlets Responsible For Comments Left On Their Facebook Pages? 122
Microsoft Replaces Dozens of Staff With AI for News Stories on MSN 29
How Baidu's AI Produces News Videos Using Just a URL 18
Local News Stations Run Propaganda Segment Scripted and Produced by Amazon 61
Amazon's Audible Goes Beyond Books To Chase Spotify in Podcasts 1
The Public Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used To Portray COVID-19 349
The New York Times Phasing Out All 3rd-Party Advertising Data 28
Joe Rogan is Moving His Podcast, One of the World's Most Popular Podcasts, Exclusively To Spotify 146
Twitter To Label Disputed COVID-19 Tweets 86
'Murder Hornet' Meme Inspires Stupid Americans To Kill Pollinators En Masse 169
Australia Will Force Google and Facebook to Pay for News Content 149
Russia Accused of Deploying Coronavirus Disinformation to Sow Distrust 197
What Are the Best Free Streaming Services? 42
As Sacha Baron Cohen Criticizes Zuckerberg, Elon Musk Tweets "#DeleteFacebook' 165
Fake News Hoax in Russia Tries Blaming the US For Coronavirus 86
Washington Post Writer Calls 2019 'The Year of OK Boomer', Calls for Inter-Generational Kindness 515
Would Social Media Have Made Life Worse For Richard Jewell? 81
Spotify Joins Twitter in Suspending Political Ads in 2020 54
Tech News Site 'The INQUIRER' Is Shutting Down 39
Bloomberg Fined $7.6M For Re-Publishing Info From Fake Press Release 88
YouTube's Algorithm Made Fake CNN Reports Go Viral 63
Chinese Newspaper Touts Videogame Where Players 'Hunt Down Traitors' in Hong Kong 96
Can We Kill Fake News With Blockchain? 164
The World's First Banner Ad Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary 24
Pando Editor Sells Site, Quits Journalism, Citing Sexual Harassment and Threats in Silicon Valley 137
Google's Search Results Begin Prioritizing 'Original Reporting' 34
The Washington Post's Newest Product: Personalized Newsletters 22
Did WhatsApp Backdoor Rumor Come From 'Unanswered Questions ' and 'Leap of Faith' For Closed-Source Encryption Products? 105
Craigslist Founder: Most Online Outrage is Faked For Profit 208
Steve Wozniak Warns People To Get Off of Facebook Due To Privacy Concerns 119
NYT 'Op Eds From the Future' Launch With Sci-Fi Writer Ted Chiang 33
Amazon's Doorbell Company Is Selling Fear 63
Is Social Media Losing Ground To Email Newsletters? 102
'Facebook, Axios And NBC Paid This Guy To Whitewash Wikipedia Pages' 103
Cringley's Next 2019 Predictions: Only 3.5 Cloud Players Will Survive 148
Mark Zuckerberg's Mentor 'Shocked and Disappointed' -- But He Has a Plan 140
CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company 157
New Web Site Will Team Journalists With Programmers 51
Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion 458
Should The Media Cover Tesla Accidents? 268
Facebook Exec Admits 'No Real Understanding' for the Scope of Fake News 219
Vim Beats Emacs in 'Linux Journal' Reader Survey 195
BuzzFeed Unmasks Mastermind Who Urged Peter Thiel To Destroy Gawker 156
Hulu, NBC Experience Glitches During Super Bowl Telecast 98
Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers 291
LWN.Net Celebrates Its 20th Birthday 24
Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit 316
Peter Thiel Is Now Bidding on Gawker.com 132
Bill Gates Is First Guest Editor In Time Magazine's 94-Year History 64
Wired Publishes Fake Christmas Letter By Elon Musk 32
Former Exec Who Said Facebook Was 'Destroying Society' Still Loves Facebook 46
Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp On Reality 238
Google News Will Purge Sites Masking Their Country of Origin 151
'The Gawker Foundation' is Crowdfunding a Bid To Re-Launch Gawker.com 91
After Bankrupting Gawker, Peter Thiel Demands a Chance to Buy Them 149
Net Neutrality is Essentially Unassailable, Argues Billionaire Barry Diller 82
'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' 402
New Victims in the 'Billionaire War on Journalism' 207
Peter Thiel Could End Up Owning Gawker 68
Google Says It Hasn't Promised To Help News Sites By Sharing Money and User Data 22
CNN Skeptical of Elon Musk's 'Big Promises' 206
Google AMP Flaw Exploited By Russian Hackers Targeting Journalists 57
Governments Turn Tables By Suing Public Records Requesters 145
SciFi Author (and Byte Columnist) Jerry Pournelle Has Died 221
Police Allegedly Arrest UK News Photographer For Standing In A Field 216
Columnist Mocks The Case Against Cord-Cutting As 'Too Many Choices' 314
Streaming Glitches Delay Massively Hyped Mayweather-McGregor Boxing Match 186
Bitcoin Just Surged Past $4,000. TechCrunch Explains Why 154
28 Years Later, Pioneering Tech Magazine 'Mondo 2000' Relaunches Online 35
CNET Pranked By Web Site's Fake 'All Out War' Hack During DEFCON 22
Google Funds A Team Of Robot Journalists 43
Walt Mossberg's Last Column Calls For Privacy and Security Laws 96
Seven Science Journals Have A Dog On Their Editorial Board 106
Aftermath From The Net Neutrality Vote: A Mass Movement To Protect The Open Internet? 132
Streaming Services Will Pay Writers More Under New Writers Guild Pact 64
Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? 316
Tim Berners-Lee Warns About the Web's Three Biggest Threats 91
Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again 135
Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers 299
Facebook Begins Marking 'Fake News' As 'Disputed' 208
Techdirt Asks Judge To Dismiss Another Lawsuit By That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email 82
Trend Micro's Own Cybersecurity Blog Gets Hacked 17
The Brief, Bumbling Tech Careers of Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, and Will.i.am 97
A Super Bowl Koan: Does The NFL Wish It Were A Tech Company? 126
Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report 760
CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates 498
Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item 333
Pull Requests Are Accepted At About The Same Rate, Regardless of Gender 94
David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test 309
Are We Seeing Propaganda About Russian Propaganda? 335
The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News 360
Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy 251
Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News 270
Science Journals Caught Publishing Fake Research For Cash 137
False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads 158
Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem 624
Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Will Fight Fake News -- Next To An Ad With Fake News 149
Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email 121
'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns 214
More NFL Players Attack Microsoft's $400M Surface Deal With The NFL 236
AT&T Buys Time Warner For $85B. Is The Mass Media Consolidating? 132
Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? 361
Journalist Cleared of Riot Charges in South Dakota 79
Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? 252
Group Wants To Shut Down Tor For a Day On September 1 229
Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? 296
Ask Slashdot: Should I Expect Tracking When Subscribing To News Sites? 206
Hacker Magazine Phrack Returns After Four-year Hiatus 32
Unofficial Answers: Why Does YouTube Seem So Biased? 178
One Million School Children To Get Free BBC Micro:bit Computers 157
Infamous French Hacker Calls Internet a "Digital Shantytown" 82
Comcast Failed To Install Internet, Then Demanded $60,000 In Fees 139
Facebook's 'Closed Silos' Pose Challenges To Open Web 77
Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NY Times, BBC, AOL 159
Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' 741
Research Establishes 13-Hour Gap Between Viral Misinformation and Correction 54
Valve Announces New Portal Content For Virtual Reality 30
Anonymous Hacks Donald Trump's Voicemail and Leaks the Messages 314
CRTC Enforced $25/mo Cable TV Is Now Available To Canadians, But With Caveats 194
FCC Complaints For the 2016 Primary Debates 178
UK Gov't Launches Anti-Adblocking Initiative, Compares It To Piracy 317
How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear 532
Scribd To Change Its 'Unlimited' E-book Subscription Plan To Semi-Unlimited 55
End of an Era As Pioneering BBC3 Becomes an Online-Only Station 85
Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers 146
Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers 287
Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription 675
Adblock Plus Maker Seeks Deal With Ad Industry Players 356
In Japan, a Battle Brewing Over the Right To Record 4k and 8k Broadcasts 105
Anti-Malware Maker Files Lawsuit Over Bad Review 163
Julian Assange May Surrender To British Police On Friday 327
How To Build a TimesMachine 41
Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden 164
Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? 832
Arnnon Geshuri, Newest Wikimedia Trustee, Forced To Resign 104
Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management 1310
The Widely Reported ISIS Encrypted Messaging App Is Not Real 113
Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age 311

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