Nieman Foundation atHarvard
“Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. In 2025, AI bots accounted for a significant portion of overall web traffic, which crawl the internet for text and other information to feed to data-hungry large language models. But there are some key differences between these Chinese bots and other AI bots. First, there’s simply way more of them.”
The percentage of Sudanese media institutions that have been damaged or completely destroyed in the country’s current war, according to the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate. The organization also says at least 32 journalists have been killed since the beginning of the war.
“We know for sure that we do not have the advertising support to continue.”
“I started thinking about ways to get rougher cuts of information to reporters more quickly, for breaking news,” says Dylan Freedman, an editor on the Times’ AI team. “With the help of AI, I wrote a tool that leveraged the DOJ’s own search functionality to allow reporters to quickly extract every page of search results and put them in a spreadsheet. From there, we populated tabs for search results from key figures linking back to the source material, and reporters crowdsourced verifying the information.”
“Usually, conspiracy theories feed on an absence of information, not a glut. But the Justice Department’s release of more than three million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images has done little to smother baseless speculation or fabrication.”
Context, launched in 2022, was a global news service covering climate, inclusive economies, and tech and society.
One reason it’s shutting down now: Philanthropic funding is drying up, “with some prominent and historically committed donors questioning the value of their investments across the media sector, due to a lack of demonstrable impact.”
Some of Readly’s users are people whom “publishers have previously lost as subscribers.” The publishers “can’t win them back themselves directly,” Readly’s head of content told Press Gazette, “so they’ll target them with a Readly subscription message.'”
The new version includes lessons on fostering respectful dialogue. Nieman Lab firstwrote about Language, Please in 2022.
How many Meta Ray-Ban and Meta Oakley AI smartglasses were sold in 2025 — up from 2 million sold in 2023 and 2024 combined
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, testifying at a landmark trial in California over whether social media companies should be held liable for making “addictive” products
The Nieman Journalism Lab is a collaborative attempt to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age.
It’s a project of theNieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
