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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New in @towcenter.bsky.social's Deals & Disputes Tracker: 💰 OpenAI provides 400+ ChatGPT Edu subscriptions to CUNY & Northwestern J-schools and collaborates with Tow-Knight Center & Knight Lab 💰 OpenAI strikes its first Canadian news deal with Village Media

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Reported details: In addition to "collaborating closely" with the Tow-Knight Center and the Knight Lab, OpenAI will provide more than 400 ChatGPT Edu subscriptions to interested graduate students and faculty at the two journalism schools for the 2026-2027 academic year.

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Reported details: Village Media and OpenAI are partnering to launch Open Door, an AI-powered community health and care navigation platform. Village Media will own the product, with OpenAI providing funding, API credits and technical support. As part of the agreement, Village Media's content will also be cited in ChatGPT.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m glad the three AI CEOs all simultaneously decided what they were doing was dangerous and needed to slow down and I have no further questions about it

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New in @towcenter.bsky.social's Deals & Disputes Tracker: 💻 OpenAI & WAN-IFRA partner to provide AI support to Ukrainian media via AIRPPU ⚖️ Seattle Times & Newsday (which prev. got 💰 from OpenAI & Microsoft) sue OpenAI & Microsoft 💻 OpenAI & Ringier launch collab tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

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Reported Details: OpenAI, WAN-IFRA and AIRPPU develop a new initiative supporting AIRPPU-selected news organizations in developing and implementing AI-driven newsroom, commercial and operational transformation projects. The Newsroom AI Masterclass Series will bring together international experts and practitioners to share practical knowledge, case studies and implementation strategies, while the Newsroom AI Catalyst will provide hands-on support to 10 participating Ukrainian news organizations. All participating organizations will also receive OpenAI API credits "to facilitate the development of bespoke newsroom solutions."

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Reported Details: The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges the AI companies scraped the publishers' content and used it to train LLMs, which can reproduce passages from their reporting and provide outputs that reduce the need to visit their websites or buy subscriptions. It also alleges the AI companies diluted the publishers' trademark by generating outputs that falsely attributed fabricated content to the outlets. The publishers seek an unspecified amount of damages and the "impoundment and/or destruction" of data sets and AI models that include their works. Microsoft Philanthropies underwrites some Seattle Times journalism projects, and the both the Times and Newsday have previously received funding from the Lenfest Institute for Journalism's AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program (which was funded by Microsoft and OpenAI) for hiring a two-year AI fellow.

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Reported Details: The collaboration enables Ringier to secure "long-term, secure, and cost-effective access to OpenAI’s language models and tools." The publisher's individual business units will decide independently where and how to deploy the AI company's produces and services. The collaboration includes "[g]radual rollout of ChatGPT Enterprise across the Ringier Group, supported by OpenAI and the joint development of specific use cases." Financial terms are not disclosed, and the agreement does not include content licensing.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New in @towcenter.bsky.social's Deals & Disputes Tracker: 🛒 Reuters makes its content available for licensing via Snowflake Marketplace ⚖️ Argentinian publisher Editorial Perfil becomes the first Spanish-language outlet to sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement and unfair competition

Screenshot of card on the Tow Center's Deals and Disputes tracker summarizing details about Reuters' arrangement with Snowflake Marketplace

Screenshot of card on the Tow Center's Deals and Disputes tracker summarizing details about Editorial Perfil's lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Over the past few weeks @aisvarya17.bsky.social and I have been making some tweaks to the Deals and Disputes tracker we maintain for the @towcenter.bsky.social. The biggest update: you can now filter the deals and lawsuits by country! tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you post survey data, news articles, etc. without a link back to the source whenever possible, you are weakening the informational chain of custody and making it harder for other people to confirm that they're seeing accurate information. This holds even if you're mad at whatever it is.

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Latest updates to @towcenter.bsky.social's Deals & Disputes Tracker: 💰 OpenAI commits additional funding to the American Journalism Project ⚖️ News Corp countersues Brave AI, alleging copyright infringement tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🤝 Australia's Nine Entertainment entered an agreement with Microsoft that allows Copilot to reference the text of its content during AI searches to contextualize and "ground" outputs. Financial terms are not disclosed. tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 10/07/2026

1. How @klaudia.bsky.social, @aliyabhatia.bsky.social, and Yanick Kemayou are working at the intersection of large language models and marginalization across news, languages, and colonial replications in data extraction. www.themaybe.org/podcast/real...

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REAL Resistance: The AI Information Warp

Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth?

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 29/06/2026

Tech companies are making AI the front door to the internet—and it's distorting news, language, and knowledge as we know it. For our first episode of REAL Resistance, @alixdunn.com spoke with @klaudia.bsky.social, @aliyabhatia.bsky.social, and Yanick Kemayou about how AI warps the world’s info.

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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 26/06/2026

When AI becomes the primary filter for the world’s information, what happens to our news, language, and knowledge? I spoke with @klaudia.bsky.social, @aliyabhatia.bsky.social, and Yanick Kemayou for our first episode of REAL Resistance to find out. Listen to the conversation here:

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REAL Resistance: The AI Information Warp

Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth?

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

⚖️ Publishers that own and operate nearly 400 local and regional news outlets across the US sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement and removal of copyright management information from their works tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/06/2026

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It seems to me that a country in the manic throes of greatness starts compulsively building railroads which is how I know my country in some sort of nightmarish other thing

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 17/06/2026

me at kickoff of every world cup game: oh this is nice to put on in the background, maybe the team with cool jerseys will win me 90 minutes later, literally every time:

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

love when I’m running late and the train is also late klaudia 🤝 nj transit

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

journalism is important, and it is accordingly important that the news is not controlled by billionaires.

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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Scott Pelley with @lulugn.bsky.social on being told the President had commented on his firing. (I’m not crying, you’re crying etc)

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

it's such a bummer that i have to care even the smallest amount what jeff bezos or musk or any of these guys think (not just for my job but bc their midlife crisis hobbies seem to be buying and destroying institutions)

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

While open-protocol tools show some promise in helping publishers take back control over how AI bots access and present their content, technical solutions alone cannot resolve what is a systemic problem. (w/ @aisvarya17.bsky.social for @columjournreview.bsky.social) www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

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AI agents are coming for news. Can publishers reclaim control?

The good news and the bad news about AI agents for journalism.

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

AI Agents are coming for news. Can publishers reclaim control? Read Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Klaudia Jaźwińska of @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

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AI agents are coming for news. Can publishers reclaim control?

The good news and the bad news about AI agents for journalism.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 13/04/2026

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

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Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Tech companies say that LLMs work better if they remember things about you. But people may find themselves “insulated from the truth by the very tools they use to seek it.” @aisvarya17.bsky.social for Tow and @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/tow_center/c...

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Your chatbot’s memory of you can shape the information you see.

Tech companies say that LLMs work better if they remember things about you. But people may find themselves “insulated from the truth by the very tools they use to seek it.”

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

AI companies - ‘helping’ journalism…. by borrowing authority without bothering to fix citation . Me in CJR www.cjr.org/tow_center/d...

At the heart of this problem lies the original sin of the relationship between platforms and publishers. The haste of publishers to think that, when a technology company presents itself as providing "help" to journalism, this is in fact what it is doing. In nearly every example I can think of, the opposite has been the case. While executives paid far more than editors lectured newsrooms about trust being the "number one problem" for journalism, and shoveled money into underwriting research that
"proved" this, their own aim was to borrow the authority of reporting without paying for it, and to create products that washed away the foundations of fact in a tide of cash.

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

In addition to trying to gain visibility and legitimacy from news organizations through partnerships, prediction markets like Polymarket are using a network of accounts to post about "news" on X. My colleague @cj-robinson.bsky.social did a deep-dive: www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...

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Polymarket affiliates are spreading misinformation on X.

“News” accounts tied to betting markets are filling a demand for breaking news on a platform many journalists have abandoned.

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C.J. Robinson @cj-robinson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Dispatches from X: new story from me on how betting market affiliates are posting about news. Several viral posts were misleading, lacked credible sourcing, or were just wrong.

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Polymarket affiliates are spreading misinformation on X.

“News” accounts tied to betting markets are filling a demand for breaking news on a platform many journalists have abandoned.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

today I went on a run outside, in the sun, after work, at 6pm for the first time in months and I feel like a new woman

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

UK publishers are banding together to create standards for responsible AI—amid Anthropic’s stark reminders of its potential for harm. Read @emilybell.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/s...

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To survive the AI age, publishers are finally working together.

UK publishers are banding together to create standards for responsible AI—amid Anthropic’s stark reminders of its potential for harm.

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

News Corp signed a multi-year deal with Meta, allowing it to train on and retrieve its US and UK content tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Major Korean broadcasters KBS, SBS, and MBC sued OpenAI for copyright infringement tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Research suggests people who use AI tools to find news seem to prefer them over clicking on individual stories, despite being conscious of their limits when it comes to accuracy. @aisvarya17.bsky.social and I wrote about what publishers can learn from this www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

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AI versus accuracy? We're willing to make the trade-off.

When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway.

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