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If you read the bill, it attaches liability to the chatbot answer ONLY IF the same answer would attach liability to the person making the same statement.
Complicated new issue but seems AI companies want Section 230 type immunity. I don’t think that’s where the public (and juries) are, at all.
7/ And, in any case, I think social media serves its purpose in some ways here by letting us discuss possible explanations.
Also @thebandcake.bsky.social: big fan 😀
6/ So we can try the social media route. @nytimes.com, was it the timing of the headlines, or something else?
(**nb Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If there's no answer, I won't be surprised since they'll allocate more resources to new journalism than to re-litigating old stories)
5/ When they first eliminated the position, the publisher said the need would be served through a combination of Reader Center and monitoring social media.
I looked at Reader Center this morning, and my mid-first-coffee scan didn't tell me how to talk back.
www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/the-...
4/ Part of the SPJ Code of Ethics is to dialogue with your readers. The Times used to have a public editor position, which you can read more about here. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/bring-back...
They don't any more.
3/ It's also the case several complicated geopolitical, financial and cultural reasons, it's a lot more likely that US news organizations have people on the ground who can verify in Israel than would in Iran. HOWEVER
2/ As for the actor not being named, if it was early, given that two entities were sending munitions (U.S. and Israel), it may not have been clear who the actor was.
Again, I don't know the timing of the headline, so I don't know. Just a possible explanation. AND
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With online headlines, they can change, so it's hard from the reader end to know definitively what happened. So it's possible that the first headline was early, before a news org could independently verify, which would lead to that attribution.
He was old, then!
I've sung backup for Andy Williams.
Today in Detection Deception: Equivocation
It's expected you get a war declaration before you start dropping bombs.
Argument I'm seeing:
We're not at war because we haven't declared war. Therefore we don't need to declare war.
Come on.
Spent Monday looking at applicants for a research seminar to look at AI & teaching/learning. I'm glad my university is investing in this. At the same time, I feel like the questions are numerous and weighty, but we're looking for a gun while the target is shrinking & zipping around at light speed.
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I voted. It was cool. Will do it again.
As an NC resident, it truly was horrendous the extent to which FEMA left the people in the western part of the state to fend for themselves.
I'm not at all a fan of congressional hearings being used for grandstanding, but it needed to be said and wasn't getting heard elsewhere.
Screenshot for Epstein files with information on how to contact Howard Lutnick.
Why did the Access Hollywood tape fade out while the Epstein files have staying power? The media, politics and the audience interact to keep some scandals around. I get into the how and why on this week's UnSpun
Here, or where you pod.
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Community:
Supply chain/rising prices due to fuel issues overall
Gas prices and effects on
*Local business
*Individuals
*Public transit
*Schools
Do local Muslims/Jews feel unsafe
Iranian doctors/other health workers
What do congress critters from area think/plan to do?
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Campus:
Alumni reporting on this
Students in ROTC or reserves
Campus experts on
*Supply chain and fuel price economic issues
*Geopolitics and history
*Religion issues
*Cultural/artistic heritage lost in wars
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Campus:
Students who are abroad - are they safe
Spring break will become complicated/$$ for some
Students thoughts on the draft
People on campus from Iran and other immediately affected countries
*Worry about family members
*Feelings about regime in Iran
*Is campus supporting?
I have beat reporting today, and it will be a chance to talk about how you find stories on your beat from current events. My students are a covering campus team and a covering community team. Here are ideas I came up with on the way to work.
Throw yours in the comments, if you've got them.
Just finished scripting tomorrow's UnSpun on why some scandals stick around while others die out. It's 🔥
One casualty of a the media's relationship to power: I know about great deal about the effects of current events on the rich. Effects on the disadvantages are often just told with statistics.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
It’s very cool that the American news outlet with perhaps the most robust reporting on Iran, The Washington Post, fired everyone at its Middle East desk 3 weeks ago.
Picture of a pair doing a sliding event at the Olympics. Basically it is one man lying on top of another on a very small sled on a track made of ice. Embedded text means When the passenger in front of you on the place reclines their seat.
#SundaySillies Modern travel edition.
**As a child, I used to think flying was an amazing adventure. Nice people smiled at you and gave you a little pin of airplane wings and you could leave snow and get off to palm trees.
Now you are trapped in a metal tube with people who hate you.
Considering quitting professoring and just starting a YouTube channel where I eat delicious foods and react.
I mean, people do it, so why not me?
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20/ Student Q: Limits on supplying reporting records to authorities.
@thadogburn.bsky.social Covering protests often means local police or loaner police who are not up on media rights. "Protest that loudly at the time."
McMichael "Call a lawyer."
19/ Student Q: With pressure to cater and to censor stories, what's your biggest concern for the direction of news.
Zerwick: "The time is now for young people and us older people to be courageous." and avoid obeying in advance.
18/ Student Q about mental health.
Panelists:
*Newsroom discussions about looking out for each other.
*News leaders have to check expectations - encourage staff outside interests and breaks.
(Sturg aside: Resources here gcjt.org)
17/ Some discussion of anonymous sources, and how it's a different issue in a threatening environment. Ethical discussions in newsrooms are taking new forms and urgencies.
If you interview a protester, can they deny their name and wear a mask?
How about if you interview an ICE agent?