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John O'Sullivan

@osullivansjohn.bsky.social
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Doing journalism and news media research at School of Communications/FuJo, Dublin City University. t.co/5P3juJpZG5

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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Including presentations on reconnecting citizens, by our postdoc researchers @irenepsychari.bsky.social and Callum Craig of @fujomedia.bsky.social
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I was very happy to sign this timely call for the protection of our vital public service media. It'll be interesting to see the response... fujomedia.eu/news/more-th...
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FuJo | Hollowing Out Public Service Media
More than 50 media academics from across Ireland signed a joint statement highlighting the d...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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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.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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
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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?
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/11/2025
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."
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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
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Who gets to say what in the news... an AI answer to 'elite-official' sourcing?
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Data Protection Commission Ireland @dpcireland.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
📢 New Press Release: Data Protection Commission statement on LinkedIn AI Training 🔗 www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/11/2025
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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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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
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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 ...
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
@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
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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
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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??
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
"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?”"
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/2025
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.
Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/10/2025
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.
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'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.
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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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Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Is this a new chapter in how knowledge circulates?
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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 21/10/2025
45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds
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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.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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/...
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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
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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.
https://issuu.com/idsnews/docs/indiana_daily_student_homecoming_eedition_-_thursd
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
"If the conductor is far-right and you’re reacting to it, you cannot decide which music should be playing.”
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Coimisiún na Meán @cnam-ie.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
⏱ 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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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...
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Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 07/10/2025
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...
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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
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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-...
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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...
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
So sad. A tragic loss for Irish culture and journalism.
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"Fish kills, polluted drinking water, declining wildlife populations, and increased emissions are a direct result of politicians’ policy decisions". www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Catherine Conlon: We are choosing business over nature every single time
Fish kills, polluted drinking water, declining wildlife populations, and increased emissions are a direct result of politicians’ policy decisions
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 01/10/2025
“Every photo is not just for history. It’s for my family, my neighbors, my people.”
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“They Fear Our Lenses”: Gaza Photojournalists Speak Out
Photographers in Gaza risk their lives to witness the war. Their images speak louder than the critics trying to discredit them.
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Here's a direct (working) link: youtu.be/8Cq2XdZv2dk?...
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In Winslow, a 24-year-old bought his dying hometown newspaper — now it's growing
YouTube video by 12 News
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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 30/09/2025
✨ Need some inspiration? Check out this story about a 26-year-old who took over his hometown newspaper in Winslow, AZ, & has gotten great support from his community. 👀 It's featured in The Sift. Read & subscribe: go.newslit.org/Sift29Sept2025 #Journalism
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Gen Z journalist buys dying hometown newspaper of small Arizona town—now it's growing
Shawn White never imagined he’d become a Gen Z publisher or take the reins of his hometown paper. But two years later, the paper continues to serve the community.
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Wow. That's crazy.
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This is interesting...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of #misinformation theconversation.com/facebook-dat... by @acarson.bsky.social et al. Misinformation’s real-world impact: "linked to poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm."
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Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of misinformation
New research reveals misinformation’s real-world impact, including poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm.
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Is that enough?
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European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) @europeanjournalists.org · 22/09/2025
#AI: World’s leading economists issued an urgent plea to recognise and uphold the economic value of public interest media in the age of artificial intelligence. "Information is a public good that market forces alone will never supply at the level our modern society demands."
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Press Release: A global call from leading economists urge action to protect public interest media for economic prosperity and human progress  - Forum Information & Democracy
As world leaders convene for the High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly in New York, eleven of the world’s leading economists, including two Nobel laureates, Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Prof. Dar...
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 15/09/2025
MI5 has admitted it illegally obtained data from the phone of ex-BBC Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney in 2006 and 2009. The BBC said this "raises serious and important questions that we will continue to pursue" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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MI5 'illegally obtained communications data' from phone of former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has heard that MI5 conceded unlawfully obtaining communications data twice.
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John O'Sullivan @osullivansjohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If you're between 18 and 24 years old, we (@fujomedia.bsky.social and @remedeu.bsky.social) want you to come to our Citizen Lab to give your insights and views on how news works, or doesn't, for you. Find out more and sign up here: forms.gle/yi9CTfsHrwSX...
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Welcome to the News Citizen Lab
Event Timing: October 20-21, 2025, 13:00-16.45 Event Address: Glasnevin Campus, DCU
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