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April 8, 2026
Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages
Unionized staff at ProPublica, one of the country's leading nonprofit newsrooms, are walking off the job for 24 hours beginning Wednesday and asking the public to honor a digital picket line. The r...
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April 6, 2026
Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying
Let's pretend you work in IT and you're looking for a new digital service desk platform to help your employees reset passwords or onboard new hires. You use Google's AI Mode to search for suggestio...
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April 2, 2026
New York lawmakers want 3D-printer companies to block the creation of ‘ghost guns’
Governor Kathy Hochul and other New York state lawmakers want 3D-printer companies to block the printing of components used to create "ghost guns" - firearms without serial numbers that can be prin...
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April 2, 2026
Insider trading or random guy? It doesn’t matter to Polymarket
In mid-March, conspiracy theories swirled claiming Benjamin Netanyahu had been replaced by an AI clone. Though there was no actual proof that the Israeli Prime Minister had been injured or killed, ...
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March 24, 2026
Instagram and Facebook are about to be filled with affiliate content
Instagram and Facebook content will soon have shopping links baked into posts, essentially cutting out third-party "link in bio"-style tools. Meta announced Tuesday that it's adding commerce featur...
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March 19, 2026
Prediction markets are trying to lure journalists with partnership deals
Prediction markets are working to ingratiate themselves with mainstream news and culture: The Golden Globes broadcast in January was plastered with Polymarket odds, the AP is licensing election dat...
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March 10, 2026
Every influencer eventually becomes a merch store
Tucker Carlson's online store sells right-wing apparel and home goods, like hoodies in the Supreme streetwear style mocking Somali people or mugs with The Godfather puppetmaster iconography edited ...
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March 10, 2026
YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to politicians and journalists
Public officials and journalists will soon be able to keep track of AI-generated deepfakes of themselves on YouTube through the platform's likeness detection feature. The tool is already available ...
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March 2, 2026
You could be an influencer without even realizing it
In late February, Puck reported on a strange case: An influencer with more than a million followers was inadvertently promoting products on Instagram. On some of Julia Berolzheimer's posts, a "Shop...
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March 1, 2026
How MLB can make baseball relevant on a fast-changing internet
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the contemporary attention economy, follow Mia Sato. The Stepback arrives in our subscri...
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February 26, 2026
DHS reportedly detained a Columbia University student and content creator
Department of Homeland Security agents "made misrepresentations" to gain access to a Columbia University residential building and detained a student early Thursday morning, according to a statement...
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February 24, 2026
More Shohei Ohtani content is coming to TikTok
Major League Baseball wants more of a footprint on TikTok. Just in time for spring training, the two companies announced Tuesday they were partnering to expand baseball content on TikTok, including...
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February 20, 2026
SCOTUS rules Trump’s tariffs are illegal — but the fight is far from over
The US Supreme Court struck down some of Donald Trump's tariffs on foreign imports, which have become a hallmark of the chaos of the second Trump administration. The court's ruling deals specifical...
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February 13, 2026
Can Democrats post their way to midterm victories?
During the 2024 presidential election, @KamalaHQ was something of an alter ego for Vice President Kamala Harris - as Harris ran a buttoned-up campaign, the online accounts shared clips of her set t...
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February 10, 2026
Jeffrey Epstein’s digital cleanup crew
In between hobnobbing with royalty and world leaders and abusing children and young women, Jeffrey Epstein appears to have been googling himself regularly. Across several batches of documents relat...
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February 5, 2026
@KamalaHQ is relaunching as a Gen Z ‘progressive content hub’
Kamala Harris' social media strategy in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election was filled with Gen Z dog whistles: viral branding based on pop music, memes, camo hats that were a double enten...
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February 3, 2026
Slopaganda goes West
After right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley's viral video alleging fraud at Minnesota daycares he said were operated by Somali residents, Donald Trump's administration responded by flooding the state wi...
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January 29, 2026
The rise of the slopagandist
The violent federal occupation of Minneapolis - and the subsequent killings of two residents at the hands of immigration agents - began with a vlog. Nick Shirley, a roving 23-year-old with a smartp...
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January 28, 2026
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL
Across six top large language models, xAI's Grok performed the worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, according to a study published Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League. On th...
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January 26, 2026
Even the big dick subreddit is mad about ICE
"Fuck ICE first, second, third, and fourth. Then worry about fucking me," a Reddit post reads. "Immigrants of any status are my friends, neighbors, and colleagues." Across the internet - and in the...
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January 22, 2026
Substack is launching a TV app, and not everyone is happy
Substack announced Thursday it's launching Apple TV and Google TV apps that audiences can use for videos and livestreams - and early reactions suggest not all users are thrilled. Subscribers can wa...
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January 22, 2026
Hundreds of creatives warn against an AI slop future
Around 800 artists, writers, actors, and musicians signed on to a new campaign against what they call "theft at a grand scale" by AI companies. The signatories of the campaign - called "Stealing Is...
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January 16, 2026
I saw the future of retail, and it’s all AI
Several people are gathered around a bleach blond man in a bright pink suit suspended in a clear plastic tube. With a microphone in front of him and a giant sign reading TALK TO ME placed above, "M...
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January 15, 2026
All the news that’s fit to WhatsApp
The WeChat channel 纽约移民记事网Documented (or the New York Immigrant Chronicle) is part newsfeed and part public service. The channel, run by the nonprofit newsroom Documented NYC, is filled with local ...
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