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Tow Center for Digital Journalism
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The Tow Center hosts a variety of research projects that explore the intersection of journalism and technology
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Building a quote-detection tool for accountability in journalism. Read Bette Dam, Dhrumil Mehta, Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen, Tory Lysik and Sthavir Murthy from the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/t...
Toward AI-powered source audits.
Building a quote-detection tool for accountability in journalism.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Media outlets in France and beyond are building shared infrastructure to regain their independence from big tech platforms. Read Marine Doux of the @towcenter.bsky.social.
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Europe's quiet tech revolt.
Media outlets in France and beyond are building shared infrastructure to regain their independence from big tech platforms.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls, by Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Klaudia Jaźwińska of the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/how...
How AI browsers sneak past blockers and paywalls.
OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet present a new challenge for media companies that want to limit AI access.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Meta’s Ban on Political Ads in Europe Unsettles Newsrooms, by Marine Doux. www.cjr.org/analysis/met...
Meta's ban on political ads in Europe unsettles newsrooms.
When outlets depend on a single platform, what works to reach readers today can vanish tomorrow.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Bari Weiss Isn’t Capturing the Media. She’s Being Captured. Read @emilybell.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/bar...
Bari Weiss isn't capturing the media. She's being captured.
America’s once diverse news landscape is being remade under the control of a few.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Since Reddit struck licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, its traffic—and its importance to legacy media outlets—has surged, by @klaudia.bsky.social of the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/red...
Reddit is winning the AI game.
Since the site struck licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, its traffic—and its importance to legacy media outlets—has surged.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Today for @columjournreview.bsky.social I wrote about how Reddit's role as a vital supplier of data for AI companies has made it a consequential player in the relationship between platforms and publishers www.cjr.org/analysis/red...

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Reddit is winning the AI game.
Since the site struck licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, its traffic—and its importance to legacy media outlets—has surged.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Pink slime never went away. Politically motivated “journalism” has expanded into news media at every level. Read @emilybell.bsky.social of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. www.cjr.org/analysis/pin...
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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We asked seven different AI models to identify the location, date and source of photos taken by photojournalists, they collectively only answered 14 out of 280 queries completely correctly.

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Why AI Models Are Bad at Verifying Photos
“You don't know when it's just making stuff up.”
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August 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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NEW in @columjournreview.bsky.social: Why AI models are bad at fact-checking photos www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
August 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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We asked seven different AI models to identify the location, date and source of photos taken by photojournalists, they collectively only answered 14 out of 280 queries completely correctly.

@aisvarya17.bsky.social @klaudia.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social

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Why AI Models Are Bad at Verifying Photos
“You don't know when it's just making stuff up.”
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August 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Why AI models are bad at verifying photos
Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure ...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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When Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson searched "Is DC safe?", the top Google News result was a White House article.
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The White House Is Its Own Media Outlet
The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News.
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August 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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New from Tow:
"A look at the almost two million Community Notes that X makes available to download shows that the vast majority of notes never end up being displayed..." @columjournreview.bsky.social @columbiajournalism.bsky.social

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Get Noted
As tech companies further embrace Community Notes, the Tow Center speaks to contributors and experts about persistent issues.
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June 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Trump’s alliance with tech titans has Europeans considering alternatives, by @sarahgrevy.bsky.social of the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
Is Europe Divorcing Big Tech?
Trump’s alliance with tech titans has Europeans considering alternatives.
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June 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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As tech companies further embrace Community Notes, @towcenter.bsky.social speaks to contributors and experts about persistent issues. www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...
Get Noted
As tech companies further embrace Community Notes, the Tow Center speaks to contributors and experts about persistent issues.
www.cjr.org
June 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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We @towcenter.bsky.social have a new report which takes a long (literally) look at GenAI and news publishers. Search and critical issues of value exchange are at the heart of a cycle pushing the sources of news journalism ever further from consumers. More critical than most reports you will read:
May 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The latest from the Tow Center:
We interviewed news and tech industry representatives about AI’s impact on platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation. @klaudia.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
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A New Report Takes On the Future of News and Search
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism interviewed news and tech industry representatives about AI’s impact on platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation.
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May 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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NEW Report From Tow Center Digital #Journalism: “Journalism Zero: How Platforms and #Publishers are Navigating #AI” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/15/r... @towcenter.bsky.social #news #media
May 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A new report I co-authored for the @towcenter.bsky.social is out today! We interviewed representatives from the news and technology industries about AI’s impact on the relationship between platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
A New Report Takes On the Future of News and Search
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism interviewed news and tech industry representatives about AI’s impact on platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation.
www.cjr.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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New: In an effort to help those with relatively little technical training navigate the rapidly changing world of deepfakes, we highlighted just a few overarching findings that journalists should know about deepfake detection.
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What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025
A nontechnical guide.
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March 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025, by Kaylee Williams of the @towcenter.bsky.social www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025
A nontechnical guide.
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March 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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It turns out this problem extends to many other chatbots too. In @towcenter.bsky.social's tests, they often cited the wrong article, and sometimes also fabricated links & cited syndicated or plagiarized articles instead of the original.
March 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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“AI search” has a citation problem.

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March 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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👋MEET THE 2025 DDC x TRYGFONDEN FELLOWS👋

As a TrygFonden fellow at the DDC, @sarahgrevy.bsky.social from @towcenter.bsky.social is investigating crowdsourced fact-checking systems, such as "community notes." We're eager to see if these approaches can help combat misinformation! 🔍
March 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM