Younger generations navigate fragmented, algorithm-driven information spaces that shape how they assess credibility and form political identity differently from older Americans watching cable news. (1/2)

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What has your news been telling you?

@adamrose.bsky.social of Stanford's Starling Lab argues that journalism's current approach to AI images, detecting and labeling fakes, is backwards. Instead, news organizations should prove which images are authentic using digital provenance standards like C2PA.

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The seventh annual National News Literacy Week just kicked off—and this year's focus tells you everything about where we are. The theme is AI misinformation. (1/3)

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Smaller groups of wealthy businesspeople control larger swaths of the country's information ecosystem, pitting their overall corporate interests against the public's desire for accurate journalism challenging powerful institutions in society. (1/2)

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A former FiveThirtyEight journalist reflects on how a simple Wisconsin election chart from 2020 was stripped of context and turned into "proof" of election fraud.

The lesson: context can be stripped away faster than it can be restored. (1/2)

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We've had misinformation before.

But AI is doing something different: making people question *everything*. What do we lose when we don’t believe anything we read? (1/2)

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Instagram is using AI to automatically generate headlines and descriptions for posts, without users' knowledge or consent, to rank higher in Google Search results. Meta confirmed the practice and say it helps people "better understand the content" (1/2)

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Nobel laureate @mariaressa and researchers from 5 top universities warn in Science: "AI swarms" could disrupt the 2028 election. The technique involves overwhelming people with unverifiable information rather than explicit propaganda. (1/2)

Is offline the new luxury?

2026 is being called the year of the analog, with creators emphasizing journaling and logging off

Have your habits shifted away from technology this year?

Content creators like Olivia Yokubonis (aka Olivia Unplugged) are building followings by doing something counterintuitive: reminding viewers to stop scrolling. Armed with research and a kind voice, she pops up in feeds to ask if you remember the video you saw two minutes ago