John O'Sullivan
@osullivansjohn.bsky.social
Doing journalism and news media research at School of Communications/FuJo, Dublin City University.
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Meta's decision the slash fact-checking and move towards Community Notes in the US is now being reviewed for where else to implement this.
The Oversight Board has been asked to issue an opinion.
An opinion on where to (not) implement a poor policy...
www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...
The Oversight Board has been asked to issue an opinion.
An opinion on where to (not) implement a poor policy...
www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...
Board to Review Meta’s Plans to Expand Community Notes
The Oversight Board has accepted Meta’s request for a policy advisory opinion on its approach to expanding its community notes program outside of the United States.
www.oversightboard.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Meta's decision the slash fact-checking and move towards Community Notes in the US is now being reviewed for where else to implement this.
The Oversight Board has been asked to issue an opinion.
An opinion on where to (not) implement a poor policy...
www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...
The Oversight Board has been asked to issue an opinion.
An opinion on where to (not) implement a poor policy...
www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...
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Launched as a competitor to Wikipedia, Elon Musk's #Grokipedia is one of the first LLM-based attempts to create an encyclopaedia.
@gildersleve.uk finds it compares poorly to Wikipedia, but the latter faces challenges as AI tools cannibalise its content and audiences.
@lseimpactblog.bsky.social
@gildersleve.uk finds it compares poorly to Wikipedia, but the latter faces challenges as AI tools cannibalise its content and audiences.
@lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Grokipedia falls flat, but AI is already rewriting Wikipedia’s future - Impact of Social Sciences
Launched as a competitor to Wikipedia, Grokipedia is one of the first LLM based encyclopaedias, but how does it compare to the last best place on the internet?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Launched as a competitor to Wikipedia, Elon Musk's #Grokipedia is one of the first LLM-based attempts to create an encyclopaedia.
@gildersleve.uk finds it compares poorly to Wikipedia, but the latter faces challenges as AI tools cannibalise its content and audiences.
@lseimpactblog.bsky.social
@gildersleve.uk finds it compares poorly to Wikipedia, but the latter faces challenges as AI tools cannibalise its content and audiences.
@lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Including, '...false news circulated in Ireland that the country now has a larger population of Muslims than people who live in designated Irish-speaking areas' (debunked at www.thejournal.ie/more-muslims...) by @stemcdermott.bsky.social
🚨 With the launch of several #genAI tools this year, the share of AI-generated #disinformation has reached the highest share ever recorded by our monitoring.
🔍 Read our monthly brief to learn more about how #AI is being weaponised & see for yourself what #factcheckers from our network found 👇
🔍 Read our monthly brief to learn more about how #AI is being weaponised & see for yourself what #factcheckers from our network found 👇
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Including, '...false news circulated in Ireland that the country now has a larger population of Muslims than people who live in designated Irish-speaking areas' (debunked at www.thejournal.ie/more-muslims...) by @stemcdermott.bsky.social
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We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
Who gets to say what in the news... an AI answer to 'elite-official' sourcing?
Building a quote-detection tool for accountability in journalism. Read Bette Dam, Dhrumil Mehta, Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen, Tory Lysik and Sthavir Murthy from the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/t...
Toward AI-powered source audits.
Building a quote-detection tool for accountability in journalism.
www.cjr.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Who gets to say what in the news... an AI answer to 'elite-official' sourcing?
Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath to run EU’s hub to fight disinformation
Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath to run EU’s hub to fight disinformation
The Democracy Shield, published by the Commission on Wednesday, is a strategic effort by the EU to fight hybrid online disinformation attacks from Russia and others
dlvr.it
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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📢 New Press Release:
Data Protection Commission statement on LinkedIn AI Training
🔗 www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...
Data Protection Commission statement on LinkedIn AI Training
🔗 www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
📢 New Press Release:
Data Protection Commission statement on LinkedIn AI Training
🔗 www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...
Data Protection Commission statement on LinkedIn AI Training
🔗 www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...
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15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
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Far more significant than the podcast is Ivan Yates working with a national broadcaster Newstalk as a pundit when he was working for FF as an advisor ...surely the regulator has something to say about this ? www.newstalk.com/podcasts/cal.... #Spéirghorm
Calling It | Newstalk
Ivan Yates and Seán Defoe analyse the Presidential Election, reviewing candidates, the state of their campaigns, and predicting who will be moving into the ...
www.newstalk.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Far more significant than the podcast is Ivan Yates working with a national broadcaster Newstalk as a pundit when he was working for FF as an advisor ...surely the regulator has something to say about this ? www.newstalk.com/podcasts/cal.... #Spéirghorm
@remedeu.bsky.social has an interesting event coming up, based on a study of fact-checkers in which we ran Irish interviews. Relevant to policy-makers, media organisations and practitioners, civil society organizations, academics, students and interested citizens.
resilientmedia.eu?p=1899
resilientmedia.eu?p=1899
ONLINE POLICY FORUM – Content moderation for democratic resilience: policy recommendations from a European study of fact-checkers – Wednesday 12 November 2025, 14.30-15.30 CET
resilientmedia.eu
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
@remedeu.bsky.social has an interesting event coming up, based on a study of fact-checkers in which we ran Irish interviews. Relevant to policy-makers, media organisations and practitioners, civil society organizations, academics, students and interested citizens.
resilientmedia.eu?p=1899
resilientmedia.eu?p=1899
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Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers.
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers.
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
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"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
![Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake:
“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreickzwdynkak7r4lur6afktglm3gontqsq5r5c7jeewyecyd4dczla@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
Postdoctoral researchers Irene Psychari and Callum Craig guiding participants through the @remedeu.bsky.social @fujomedia.bsky.social Citizen Lab on toxic news, held earlier this week in partnership with @imec-smit.bsky.social. Many thanks to all who took part so productively over two days!
October 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Postdoctoral researchers Irene Psychari and Callum Craig guiding participants through the @remedeu.bsky.social @fujomedia.bsky.social Citizen Lab on toxic news, held earlier this week in partnership with @imec-smit.bsky.social. Many thanks to all who took part so productively over two days!
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Is this a new chapter in how knowledge circulates?
Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines
go.nature.com/3J82tYH
go.nature.com/3J82tYH
AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.
go.nature.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Is this a new chapter in how knowledge circulates?
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We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
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45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds
45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds
Global meat and dairy production's environmental footprint dwarfs that of all EU member states and the UK combined, according to a new report.
euobserver.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds
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So many species are being eliminated by the greed of some humans that we have entered an era of extinction that resembles the death of the dinosaurs. We are part of nature and every loss diminishes us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer
Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
So many species are being eliminated by the greed of some humans that we have entered an era of extinction that resembles the death of the dinosaurs. We are part of nature and every loss diminishes us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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When administrators try to soft-pedal censorship of student press by cutting only the print edition, they are reminding us that paper is the medium of liberatory potential.
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
When administrators try to soft-pedal censorship of student press by cutting only the print edition, they are reminding us that paper is the medium of liberatory potential.
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"If the conductor is far-right and you’re reacting to it, you cannot decide which music should be playing.”
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"If the conductor is far-right and you’re reacting to it, you cannot decide which music should be playing.”
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⏱ There's still time to have your say on our draft #MediaPluralism Policy. It outlines the importance of public service media, quality journalism, informed choice and inclusion in the media landscape. This important public #consultation is open until 5pm on 24 October 2025 - see below for more...
Public consultation on our draft Media Pluralism Policy now open - Coimisiún na Meán
Coimisiún na Meán has today (1 September 2025) opened a public consultation on its draft Media Pluralism Policy. The Policy is intended to provide clarity on Coimisiún na Meán’s understanding of media...
www.cnam.ie
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
⏱ There's still time to have your say on our draft #MediaPluralism Policy. It outlines the importance of public service media, quality journalism, informed choice and inclusion in the media landscape. This important public #consultation is open until 5pm on 24 October 2025 - see below for more...
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Deletion of Jim Gavin ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture
I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Liz Carolan: Deleting of ‘Jim Gavin for President’ ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture
Campaign history will be wiped out as providers of digital political ads press delete on their archives
www.irishtimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Deletion of Jim Gavin ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture
I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Bari Weiss has officially been announced as the editor in chief of CBS News. “She’s not a reporter; she’s never been in the field,” a 60 Minutes producer told Adam Piore for a recent profile of CBS. “Talk about controversies.”
www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...
www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...
For the past year, journalists at CBS News have been up against extraordinary pressure. The network reached a tipping point.
“Who would have thought this is the piece that would get me fired?” Bill Owens, the former executive producer of 60 Minutes, said in the screening room. For the past year, CBS journalists have been up...
www.cjr.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Bari Weiss has officially been announced as the editor in chief of CBS News. “She’s not a reporter; she’s never been in the field,” a 60 Minutes producer told Adam Piore for a recent profile of CBS. “Talk about controversies.”
www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...
www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...