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sophiehnic.bsky.social
@sophiehnic.bsky.social
Digital investigations, AI and journalism • Co-founder https://bsky.app/profile/factcheck.afp.com, digitalcourses.afp.com• Ex Latin America correspondent, radio and TV producer and reporter in Europe • Paris-based
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OpenAI’s Sora let me create a fake eyewitness video of a fire at the UN building. It’s not perfect, but it’s certainly fast and good enough.

The original came with a bouncing watermark which was easy to crop out.

Good job everybody.
October 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...
April 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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🗣️ It's that time of year! Applications just opened up for the next cohort of @newmarkjplus.bsky.social
Executive Program in News Innovation & Leadership! If you are looking to uplevel your leadership skills, business acumen and network, look no further and apply now! 🏃🏽‍♀️
📣 Applications are now OPEN for the next Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership cohort!

Join media leaders worldwide in this year-long hybrid program designed to drive transformation in the news industry.

Apply by May 2! ↓
www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/03/appl...
March 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
John Oliver on Meta’s decision to roll back fact-checking and content moderation youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo?...
Content Moderation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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February 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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We publish a new version (v0.84) of our verification plugin. It improves the keyframes file mode and assistant (both from @veraai_eu), archiving (from #DisinfoArchiving @factchecknet project) and includes a Japanese localization!
February 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Subscribe for free to The Journalist's Toolbox newsletter: https://buff.ly/3UVphON

It publishes every other Tuesday around 8 a.m. ET. It features tips, tricks and tools as well as a training video.
JournalistsToolbox.ai | Mike Reilley | Substack
Journalist's Toolbox (TM) AI shares tools, plug-ins, browser extensions and other artificial intelligence resources that are helpful to professional journalists, students, educators, marketers and…
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January 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Bellingcat is currently working with universities to develop open source investigation courses in various fields and creating student-led investigative hubs at those universities, which seems well timed.
January 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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“human-curated news offers something algorithms can’t replicate: the comfort of knowing that on the other side of your news, there’s a person who cares about what you read, not just what keeps you scrolling.” www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/to-h...
To hell with algorithms
"Audiences are embracing human-curated content delivered through both digital and analog channels."
www.niemanlab.org
December 11, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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Craig and I are teaching another course with @knightcenterut.bsky.social in January!

New year, new skills. Join us:
Join @craigsilverman.bsky.social & @janelytv.bsky.social and learn to 🔎:

- Verify and geolocate images/videos
- Conduct background checks
- Analyze digital footprints
- Use AI tools for data analysis
- And more!

🎁 Perfect for you or as a gift for a fellow journalist! https://bit.ly/4g2u88K
December 11, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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Tips for searching Bluesky - mostly the same operators as Twitter but there are a couple extra useful ones, including an API (remember those days?)
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky
Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!
bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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New to Bluesky?

We've created this starter pack with dozens of journalists, technologists and academic researchers who write regularly about the future of journalism worldwide. We hope you find it useful
go.bsky.app/6r1SGfR
November 25, 2024 at 11:16 AM