Polymarket’s AI Is Feeding Users Fabricated Information The prediction market fancies itself a “global truth machine” and a boon to journalism. Tow finds a very different reality. August 27, 2026 By Tory Lysik
Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar in one Ohio county. The hometown newspaper is helping. October 8, 2024 By Miranda Green, Floodlight, Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, Priyanjana Bengani, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, photography by Sarahbeth Maney, ProPublica The campaign against solar benefited from two powerful forces funded by oil and gas interests. A former gas exec worked behind the scenes while the longstanding local paper, now in the hands of a “pink slime” media company, operated more publicly.
Op-ed: A new, collaborative model for mapping the US local news landscape September 18, 2024 By Sarah Stonbely
AI companies have a news problem. Journalists have the skills they need to fix it. September 10, 2024 By Anika Collier Navaroli
Star Spangled Media petitioned lawmakers for press status. A leaky ad portal suggests ties to dark-money group. August 22, 2024 By Pete Brown
One super-PAC’s curious reliance on a short-lived, lavishly funded quasi–news site August 16, 2024 By Pete Brown
The nonprofits and PACs that spent $14 million on the Metric Media network in 2021–22 August 8, 2024 By Priyanjana Bengani
Russian disinformation networks ramp up attacks on European elections July 9, 2024 By Priyanjana Bengani and Jasper Jackson Two sets of sites pushing Russian misinformation grew rapidly in the run up to this week’s votes in the UK and France
Meta Is Getting Rid of CrowdTangle—and Its Replacement Isn’t as Transparent or Accessible July 9, 2024 By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen and Kaitlyn Dowling The social media monitoring tool, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear as elections take place worldwide
Op-Ed: AI can’t anthropomorphize its way to empathy May 28, 2024 By Anika Collier Navaroli By attempting to imbue AI systems with human-like emotions, AI companies are being deceptive about the realities of the technology
Licensing deals, litigation raise raft of familiar questions in fraught world of platforms and publishers May 22, 2024 By Pete Brown
The digital Black press strategically combated COVID-19 misinformation May 14, 2024 By Allissa V. Richardson and Miya Williams Fayne
Op-Ed: AI’s Most Pressing Ethics Problem April 23, 2024 By Anika Collier Navaroli AI trained on synthetic data has the potential to devolve into its own dangerous feedback loop
The Role of Journalism, Law, and Trust & Safety in an AI Dominated World March 27, 2024 By Anika Collier Navaroli and Jasmine E McNealy Anika uses her career journey to argue that the work remains the same even as the terms, technologies, and times change
Unpacking Gan Jing World March 19, 2024 By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen A ‘wholesome’ video platform linked to a Chinese spiritual movement and right-wing newspapers looks a lot like YouTube
