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Andrew Deck

www.niemanlab.org
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Legal experts warn Meta’s new terms still grant broad scraping permissions, despite language changes
Meta has removed the word “train” from its upcoming terms of service for business accounts. The company revised its terms after Nieman Lab’s story on Thursday exposed that the new terms would permi...
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Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say
Meta can use web scrapers to crawl and collect content from websites “associated with” business accounts on its platforms, according to its new commercial terms of use. The update, set to go into e...
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Google’s News AI pilot expands to over 400 publications, including U.S. local news outlets
In December, Google launched its News AI pilot program, which licenses content from select publishers and uses it to test new AI features in Google News. On Thursday, the company announced that the...
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“We’re in their shit. They’re not in ours”: USA Today Co. execs defend Palantir deal
USA Today Co. executives are revealing new details about a controversial deal with Palantir. In a joint interview with Fast Company’s Alex Pasternack, three executives from the country’s largest ne...
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“Uber agents,” undercover AI personas, and other ways newsrooms are using AI in investigations
Late last month, about 150 journalists, researchers, and technologists gathered on the 15th floor of The New York Times Building for a forum on how AI is changing investigative journalism. Just out...
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
At the pearly gates, Dolly Parton, in a sparkling gown, stands arm in arm with Tim Curry, dressed as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. “I knew I chose the right plus one,” Parton says to God, who is standing at ...
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Federal appeals court upholds Thomson Reuters’ landmark AI copyright win
On Tuesday, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters, upholding the company’s landmark win in a copyright infringement case against the now-defunct legal AI startup Ross Intel...
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OpenAI doubles support for Lenfest’s AI and local news fellowships
OpenAI announced on Monday that it’s doubling its support for the Lenfest Institute’s AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program. Since the program launched in October 2024, it has placed AI fellows i...
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Two years ago, Meta killed CrowdTangle. Can a new AI tool fill the void?
In 2024, Meta shuttered CrowdTangle, a tool used to track how content spread across Facebook and Instagram. The portal was an essential tool for journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers, who use...
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Trump administration says a New York Times win in OpenAI lawsuit would “threaten national security” and hurt small newsrooms
On Wednesday, the Trump administration threw its support behind OpenAI, backing the AI giant in its ongoing litigation with The New York Times. The Department of Justice voiced its support through ...
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Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes
Every day the fact-checking team for one of India’s largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media. For the six-person team at Indi...
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Japanese publishers are fighting imposter news sites with a cryptographic signature
On January 1, 2024, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula, killing more than 700 people. In the days that followed, AI-generated images of the wreckage circulated widely and fake...
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The Society of Professional Journalists proposes edits to its code of ethics for the AI age
On Monday, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) dropped new proposed revisions to its code of ethics — the first revision to one of the most-cited media ethics standards in the country sin...
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A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
A translation of a mass shooter’s cryptic journal in the days after an attack. A public records review that revealed failures to install flood warning systems in Central Texas. An exposé of America...
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AI authentication tools are built without adequate journalist input, new report finds
It has never been easier (or cheaper) to fake and alter media. The evidence that journalists rely on to verify facts — photographs, videos, documents, websites, and even audio calls with sources — ...
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