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Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.
Read the story that made Palantir sue us — now available in English. #palantir #freemedia

https://www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-tenaciously-palantir-courted-switzerland?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=palantir-en

New York lawmakers have introduced a bill, the NY FAIR News Act, that would require news organizations to label AI-generated content and have it reviewed by a human before publication.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-new-bill-in-new-york-would-require-disclaimers-on-ai-generated-news-content/

#ai #aislop #freemedia #journalism #theaicon

What the ‘murder’ of Washington Post means for India

Yes, foreign correspondents got things wrong. Yes, they were often clueless about caste, relied on English-speaking elites, arrived late to stories Indian journalists broke first. But they asked questions that could get you fired here. Published investigations that domestic media killed in editorial meetings. Named power when naming power became dangerous.

https://www.newslaundry.com/2026/02/05/what-the-murder-of-washington-post-means-for-india

#freemedia #india #wapo #uspol

The #Bezos factor… 🫣

[…] “All publications are dealing with huge amounts of traffic loss because of AI summaries,” the staffer observed. “That’s not unique to us. But we’ve responded with these totally failed fad AI products of our own, when the way every other organization that’s been successful in dealing with this has done it is through leaning into personalities.” Thanks to Bezos’s well-publicized instructions, the staffer said, “we’ve been blocked from the human approach because our leadership destroyed our brand.”

https://www.cjr.org/news/layoffs-dismantling-washington-post-bezos-murray.php

[…] “In an internal meeting with staff in May 2024, Washington Post CEO Will Lewis said the paper lost $77 million in the past year and saw a 50 percent drop in audience since 2020. He and Chief Tech Officer Vineet Khosla—formerly a senior engineering manager at Uber—said that they will have ‘AI everywhere in the newsroom.’”

[…] “Media execs are leveraging the power of high-profile legacy and digital-first brands for clicks…forcing low-paid ghostwriters to fix the SEO-optimized crud that AI tools churn out for cheap advertising dollars.” — Bender, E. M., & Hanna, A. ([2024 or 2025]). The AI con. Harper.

#thaicon #aihype #wapo #bezos #uspol #fascism #freemedia

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ProjectAinita/115920918834625622

Internet in #Iran seems to get back online.

So for people in Iran this is a chance to install the text-only newsreader DUTA that should work even in #Internetshutdown & #netblock
#censorship #freemedia

Another one in the bag:

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

#spotify #archival #backup #freemedia

Waarom we NIET moeten denken dat de 'vele' omroepen moeten samengaan: de controle van autoritaire heersers wordt zo een eitje. Kwestie van een stroman als baas aanwijzen en kat in het bakkie.

#freemedia #omroepenmoetenblijven

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-has-the-media-become-so-vulnerable?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon