It’s no secret that the news industry is changing fast. In 2025, only around 7% of U.S. adults report getting most of their news from print outlets like newspapers and magazines, according to the Pew Research Center. Radio isn’t doing much better, reaching just 11% of the population. Meanwhile, 86% of those surveyed say they get at least some of their news via smartphone, which could mean anything from social media to news apps and streaming platforms.
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Journalists around the world are facing unprecedented dangers for simply doing their job.
Although whistleblowers are rare, they are powerful sources for uncovering corruption in businesses and government. Their impact is widely felt, from Deep Throat providing clues about the Watergate scandal to former employees of the tech startup Theranos revealing that the company was putting its customers’ health at risk. But what are the ground rules for journalists when interviewing whistleblowers?
Polls got a bad rap after the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections because they were so far off the actual results. So what happened? And which polls should we look at for this election?
Meet yet another AI chatbot called Grok. Grok is Elon Musk’s version of ChatGPT with one big difference: access to real-time information on the social media platform X. This means Grok can respond to prompts about current events or viral posts.
Here’s another unique feature: Grok answers questions with “a bit of wit and a rebellious streak” according to the X AI team. It can also respond to “spicy questions” other AI bots reject.
It is high season for election interference, with multiple foreign actors trying to influence American voters with all kinds of misleading content. While this kind of disinformation is not a new phenomenon, intelligence experts say it is an “unprecedented threat in 2024 and that the US is less ready than ever,” according to NBC News.
If you ask Tucker Carlson, we know what he would say. In fact, he already said it.
Did you witness the earth-shattering news live? NFL football star Travis Kelce, fresh off a Super Bowl victory with the Kansas City Chiefs, had just taken a private jet to Sydney, Australia to see his girlfriend Taylor Swift. She was on a concert tour stop there. And OMG, you’d never guess what happened next.
Sora is the latest AI-powered tool from OpenAI, so new that it’s only available to a few select researchers, academics and visual artists. This software generates highly realistic videos from short snippets of text, like “historical footage of California in the gold rush.” After typing in that description, presto! Sora generates a high-resolution video in a fraction of the time it would take a digital artist to create it and way faster than actually filming that scene on-site with actors, props, lighting and cameras.
Anything that persuades news consumers to pause before sharing is a good start and helps keep misinformation from polluting our information ecosystem.
