Another brilliant analysis by @pboehler on what journalism needs to look like if we want anyone to keep caring -- especially in the face of the AI-powered information apocalypse:

"I've watched newsrooms invest millions in circumvention technology even as their audiences turn to WhatsApp groups for information that actually matters to them: which hospitals have vaccine stock, which neighbourhoods face demolition, which schools accept children without local registration. These informal networks lack sophisticated encryption but they solve real problems."

Go and read: https://www.pboehler.net/information-needs-autocracy/

#censorship #circumvention #media #journalism

Resisting oppression by focusing on information needs

Mundane, actionable information threatens authoritarian control more deeply than any dissident broadcast.

Patrick Boehler