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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 6d

Since Reddit struck licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, its traffic—and its importance to legacy media outlets—has surged, by @klaudia.bsky.social of the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/red...

Reddit is winning the AI game.

Since the site struck licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, its traffic—and its importance to legacy media outlets—has surged.

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 6d

Today for @columjournreview.bsky.social I wrote about how Reddit's role as a vital supplier of data for AI companies has made it a consequential player in the relationship between platforms and publishers www.cjr.org/analysis/red...

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Reddit is winning the AI game.

Since the site struck licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, its traffic—and its importance to legacy media outlets—has surged.

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 27d

Pink slime never went away. Politically motivated “journalism” has expanded into news media at every level. Read @emilybell.bsky.social of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. www.cjr.org/analysis/pin...

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · Aug 28

We asked seven different AI models to identify the location, date and source of photos taken by photojournalists, they collectively only answered 14 out of 280 queries completely correctly.

@aisvarya17.bsky.social @klaudia.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social

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Why AI Models Are Bad at Verifying Photos

“You don't know when it's just making stuff up.”

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · Aug 26

NEW in @columjournreview.bsky.social: Why AI models are bad at fact-checking photos www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · Aug 28

We asked seven different AI models to identify the location, date and source of photos taken by photojournalists, they collectively only answered 14 out of 280 queries completely correctly.

@aisvarya17.bsky.social @klaudia.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social

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Why AI Models Are Bad at Verifying Photos

“You don't know when it's just making stuff up.”

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · Aug 26

Why AI models are bad at verifying photos

Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure ...

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · Aug 28

When Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson searched "Is DC safe?", the top Google News result was a White House article.
www.cjr.org/analysis/the... @dmil.bsky.social @towcenter.bsky.social

The White House Is Its Own Media Outlet

The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News.

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · Jun 17

New from Tow:
"A look at the almost two million Community Notes that X makes available to download shows that the vast majority of notes never end up being displayed..." @columjournreview.bsky.social @columbiajournalism.bsky.social

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Get Noted

As tech companies further embrace Community Notes, the Tow Center speaks to contributors and experts about persistent issues.

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · Jun 5

Trump’s alliance with tech titans has Europeans considering alternatives, by @sarahgrevy.bsky.social of the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Is Europe Divorcing Big Tech?

Trump’s alliance with tech titans has Europeans considering alternatives.

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · Jun 13

As tech companies further embrace Community Notes, @towcenter.bsky.social speaks to contributors and experts about persistent issues. www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

Get Noted

As tech companies further embrace Community Notes, the Tow Center speaks to contributors and experts about persistent issues.

www.cjr.org

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · May 15

We @towcenter.bsky.social have a new report which takes a long (literally) look at GenAI and news publishers. Search and critical issues of value exchange are at the heart of a cycle pushing the sources of news journalism ever further from consumers. More critical than most reports you will read:

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · May 15

The latest from the Tow Center:
We interviewed news and tech industry representatives about AI’s impact on platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation. @klaudia.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
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A New Report Takes On the Future of News and Search

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism interviewed news and tech industry representatives about AI’s impact on platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation.

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · May 15

NEW Report From Tow Center Digital #Journalism: “Journalism Zero: How Platforms and #Publishers are Navigating #AI” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/15/r... @towcenter.bsky.social #news #media

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · May 15

A new report I co-authored for the @towcenter.bsky.social is out today! We interviewed representatives from the news and technology industries about AI’s impact on the relationship between platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

A New Report Takes On the Future of News and Search

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism interviewed news and tech industry representatives about AI’s impact on platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation.

www.cjr.org

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · Mar 11

New: In an effort to help those with relatively little technical training navigate the rapidly changing world of deepfakes, we highlighted just a few overarching findings that journalists should know about deepfake detection.
Read on @columjournreview.bsky.social

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What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025

A nontechnical guide.

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · Mar 11

What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025, by Kaylee Williams of the @towcenter.bsky.social www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025

A nontechnical guide.

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Dhrumil Mehta @dmil.bsky.social · Mar 6

It turns out this problem extends to many other chatbots too. In @towcenter.bsky.social's tests, they often cited the wrong article, and sometimes also fabricated links & cited syndicated or plagiarized articles instead of the original.

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Dhrumil Mehta @dmil.bsky.social · Mar 8

“AI search” has a citation problem.

Latest from @towcenter.bsky.social

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Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · Mar 10

👋MEET THE 2025 DDC x TRYGFONDEN FELLOWS👋

As a TrygFonden fellow at the DDC, @sarahgrevy.bsky.social from @towcenter.bsky.social is investigating crowdsourced fact-checking systems, such as "community notes." We're eager to see if these approaches can help combat misinformation! 🔍

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Dhrumil Mehta @dmil.bsky.social · Mar 6

Are you using Generative AI tools as your search engine? @towcenter.bsky.social ran a test to see how often they cite news articles correctly given direct quotes from them.

Results are troubling.

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Great work by @aisvarya17.bsky.social and @klaudia.bsky.social

[graph] Generative search tools were often confidently wrong in our study

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Columbia Journalism School @columbiajournalism.bsky.social · Mar 6

🔍 AI Search Engines: popular, but potentially problematic.

A new study from the @towcenter.bsky.social reveals the hidden pitfalls in AI-powered search, like misattribution, misinformation and missing citations:
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We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling t...

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · Mar 6

NEW: @klaudia.bsky.social and @aisvarya17.bsky.social ran 1600 queries across eight generative AI search tools to see how they cite news content. They all did pretty poorly.
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We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling t...

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Aisvarya Chandrasekar @aisvarya17.bsky.social · Mar 6

@klaudia.bsky.social and I spent a few months studying how generative search tools cite news content. We'd love to hear your thoughts on our findings!

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · Mar 6

NEW: We ran 1600 queries across eight generative AI search tools to see how they cite news content. They all did pretty poorly. (w/ @aisvarya17.bsky.social for @towcenter.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social) www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling t...

www.cjr.org

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · Mar 6

NEW: We ran 1600 queries across eight generative AI search tools to see how they cite news content. They all did pretty poorly. (w/ @aisvarya17.bsky.social for @towcenter.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social) www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling t...

www.cjr.org

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