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As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

Journalist killings reached unprecedented toll in 2024  Freelancers account for one in three killings worldwide New York, February 12, 2025 — A record number of journalists were killed worldwide in 20...

Disputes around edits are nothing new, but the rise of partisanship has added fuel to the fire.

Move over, DeepSeek. Seattle-based nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has released a benchmark-topping model called Tulu3-405B.

Given the pressures of 24-hour news, lobby journalists cannot plausibly understand policy detail. Their skillset is to nose around and cause trouble

The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Open call to support independent public-interest media outlets in Europe.

Over the past two decades, the free-to-use online encyclopedia has carried on with its mission, expanding its global community of volunteer editors, known as Wikipedians, and ultimately resisting the ...

Fadi al-Wahidi’s condition is deteriorating, say hospital staff, who do not have medication needed to treat him

Cuts to Meta fact-checking in favour of community notes is deeply concerning and highlights the need to better support public media.

The company’s plan to end its factchecking program is about appeasing Trump. That signals the making of a mafia state

More than 900 billion webpages are preserved on The Wayback Machine, a history of humanity online. Now, copyright lawsuits could wipe it out.

Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”

Family members, friends, and political leaders gathered today at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the life of former president Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 at age 100.

Multispectral satellite images can reveal useful information about the world, such as mining activity and changes in vegetation.

No fewer than 68 polo players from Nigeria, Argentina, England, and South Africa are set…

We are eager to read your ideas for the Dataharvest 2025 sessions – from the presentations of investigations you’ve been working on, to the (nerdy) skills you’d like to share with the community.

When people are shown their failures, they don’t improve

We can allow the fracture lines in our society to break open. Or we can work to heal the growing divides.

Zuckerberg didn’t mention that a big chunk of the content fact-checkers have been flagging is not political speech, but the low-quality spammy clickbait that Meta platforms have commodified.

Colombia's Constitutional Court declared a violation of freedom of expression and access to information of José Manuel Vega de la Cruz.

Jess Phillips hits back at tech billionaire after he attacks her handling of grooming scandal

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, housed in a former San Francisco church with Greek columns that echo the ancient Library of Alexandria,

A force fighting Sudan’s army in a brutal civil war committed massacres and rape that amount to genocide, the Secretary of State said. The United States sanctioned its leader and financial network.

Subtitles for documentaries by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline and BBC’s Panorama, were used to train LLMs.

Staff at The Washington Post are bracing for a wave of layoffs. It's the latest hit for the Post, coming just days after longtime editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned in protest. A series of high...

Predators who create sexually explicit ‘deepfakes’ could face prosecution as the Government bears down on vile online abuse.

The British government’s decision follows a series of criminal charges and asset freezes brought by multiple governments against the daughter of Angola’s former president following ICIJ’s 2020 Luanda…

South Africa and Rwanda have both said Africa should be able to host more than one Formula 1 grand prix as they each push to host a race.

For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the human race. But