2025-06-10
Also: if AI synthesis/overview/chatbots reduces the number of newspaper readers, they will eventually disappear. What will these AIs feed on next? The AI slog of fake news websites that's proliferating, fueled by bad-faith actors like the Russian state? — There's a lot of unthinking.
Wall Street Journal
Similarweb: Google's AI tools are significantly cutting organic search traffic to news publishers; traffic to BI, HuffPost, and WaPo is down ~50% in three years
Chatbots are replacing Google's traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers — The AI armageddon is here for online news publishers.
2025-01-11
“Meta loosened rules so people could post statements saying they hated people of certain races, religions or sexual orientations, including permitting “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation. The level of discourse in the US is so low. [embedded post]
New York Times
Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.