Jonathan B Mathew
@jonathanbmathew.bsky.social
AI + Information Integrity
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"For us, AI is always going to have either a human in the loop or a rigorously validated and monitored content flow, where our editorial team has looked at that and said with a high degree of confidence, 'We know that works'".
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Reuters is ready to stand up for the press — and embrace AI
President Paul Bascobert on why reporters shouldn’t fear AI in the news business.
www.theverge.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"For us, AI is always going to have either a human in the loop or a rigorously validated and monitored content flow, where our editorial team has looked at that and said with a high degree of confidence, 'We know that works'".
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✔️ + ⚖️ = 😇
Accuracy + Fairness = Credibility
A great read on what "fact-checking" stands for...⤵️
critikid.com/fact-checking
Accuracy + Fairness = Credibility
A great read on what "fact-checking" stands for...⤵️
critikid.com/fact-checking
Fact-Checking - Critikid
Peter Adams from the News Literacy Project shares tips on how to verify claims and evaluate the reliability of sources.
critikid.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
✔️ + ⚖️ = 😇
Accuracy + Fairness = Credibility
A great read on what "fact-checking" stands for...⤵️
critikid.com/fact-checking
Accuracy + Fairness = Credibility
A great read on what "fact-checking" stands for...⤵️
critikid.com/fact-checking
Pope Francis was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online.
The future of information integrity relies on ordinary people seeking truth and providing corrective information.
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
The future of information integrity relies on ordinary people seeking truth and providing corrective information.
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
How misinformation trailed Pope Francis
Pope Francis defended the importance of truth and media literacy against "fake news" but misinformation found him, from a viral fake endorsement of Trump in 2016 to the 2023 puffer coat image made wit...
www.politifact.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Pope Francis was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online.
The future of information integrity relies on ordinary people seeking truth and providing corrective information.
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
The future of information integrity relies on ordinary people seeking truth and providing corrective information.
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
What does the #AI strategy at one of the world's largest news orgs look like? What constitutes effective AI #governance that nurtures instructive ethical frameworks?
The Head of AI at Reuters on how advanced tech is transforming the media landscape⚡
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/reut...
The Head of AI at Reuters on how advanced tech is transforming the media landscape⚡
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/reut...
The Reporter's Notebook - Brunswick Review
Jane Barrett, Head of AI at Reuters, tells Brunswick’s Wolfgang Blau how AI is changing the media landscape.
review.brunswickgroup.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
What does the #AI strategy at one of the world's largest news orgs look like? What constitutes effective AI #governance that nurtures instructive ethical frameworks?
The Head of AI at Reuters on how advanced tech is transforming the media landscape⚡
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/reut...
The Head of AI at Reuters on how advanced tech is transforming the media landscape⚡
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/reut...
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🎮 New research is backing up what gamers have thought for years — video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety. Reuters created our own simulation of the growing subgenre dubbed ‘cozy games.’ Go on, give it a try ➡️ reut.rs/4aUtNDz 1/6
Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety.
Explore a charming town, meet quirky villagers, and take in the cozy vibes!
reut.rs
January 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🎮 New research is backing up what gamers have thought for years — video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety. Reuters created our own simulation of the growing subgenre dubbed ‘cozy games.’ Go on, give it a try ➡️ reut.rs/4aUtNDz 1/6
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Anti-vax messages are incredibly profitable to platforms. This article looks at profits, disseminators, and the potential health, financial, and trust costs that audiences may endure. From the book series Risk, Systems, and Decisions www.springer.com/series/13439
#Misinformation #BehaviouralScience
#Misinformation #BehaviouralScience
Anti-vaccination Movements Online: The Lucrative Business of Dis/Misinformation
Online anti-vaccination messages are incredibly profitable for the websites and platforms that host them. A large body of literature, research, and interventions have acknowledged and tackled the wide...
link.springer.com
January 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Anti-vax messages are incredibly profitable to platforms. This article looks at profits, disseminators, and the potential health, financial, and trust costs that audiences may endure. From the book series Risk, Systems, and Decisions www.springer.com/series/13439
#Misinformation #BehaviouralScience
#Misinformation #BehaviouralScience
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“I expect 2025, given political uncertainty in many countries and the delegation of government decision rights to unelected tech and media leaders, to be a year of profound information-polluting chaos as parties maneuver for control over global centers of gravity: …
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January 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“I expect 2025, given political uncertainty in many countries and the delegation of government decision rights to unelected tech and media leaders, to be a year of profound information-polluting chaos as parties maneuver for control over global centers of gravity: …
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I am not much for New Year's resolutions, but I will say this:
2025 is when the counter-offensive for an evidence-based worldview begins.
Good luck to all of you.
2025 is when the counter-offensive for an evidence-based worldview begins.
Good luck to all of you.
December 31, 2024 at 5:25 PM
I am not much for New Year's resolutions, but I will say this:
2025 is when the counter-offensive for an evidence-based worldview begins.
Good luck to all of you.
2025 is when the counter-offensive for an evidence-based worldview begins.
Good luck to all of you.
"The alarm about AI might be comforting because it positions concerns about the information environment as a discrete problem with a discrete solution. But fixes to the information environment depend on structural and institutional changes rather than on curbing AI-generated content."
December 28, 2024 at 3:38 AM
"The alarm about AI might be comforting because it positions concerns about the information environment as a discrete problem with a discrete solution. But fixes to the information environment depend on structural and institutional changes rather than on curbing AI-generated content."
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This video continues to spread in posts falsely claiming it shows a drone downed in New Jersey.
The aircraft in the clip is a small plane that experienced engine failure and crashed the night of December 12 along Interstate 684 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
The aircraft in the clip is a small plane that experienced engine failure and crashed the night of December 12 along Interstate 684 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
December 20, 2024 at 9:52 PM
This video continues to spread in posts falsely claiming it shows a drone downed in New Jersey.
The aircraft in the clip is a small plane that experienced engine failure and crashed the night of December 12 along Interstate 684 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
The aircraft in the clip is a small plane that experienced engine failure and crashed the night of December 12 along Interstate 684 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
"Information integrity underlines the idea that fact-checking is actually an essential part of exercising free speech." ✅
www.poynter.org/ifcn/2024/th...
#freespeech #misinformation #factchecking
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#freespeech #misinformation #factchecking
The next chapter for fact-checking: information integrity - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...
www.poynter.org
December 6, 2024 at 5:40 PM
"Information integrity underlines the idea that fact-checking is actually an essential part of exercising free speech." ✅
www.poynter.org/ifcn/2024/th...
#freespeech #misinformation #factchecking
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#freespeech #misinformation #factchecking
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Zhuravel, 20, was already serving three and a half years for burning a copy of the Koran in southwestern Russia when he was convicted of new offences linked to contact with Ukrainian intelligence.
www.reuters.com/fact-check/r...
www.reuters.com/fact-check/r...
Fact Check: Russian man sentenced to 14 years in jail for treason, not for burning Koran
A Russian man was jailed for 14 years in November for state treason, not for burning a copy of the Koran, contrary to online claims.
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Zhuravel, 20, was already serving three and a half years for burning a copy of the Koran in southwestern Russia when he was convicted of new offences linked to contact with Ukrainian intelligence.
www.reuters.com/fact-check/r...
www.reuters.com/fact-check/r...
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Why people like dictators:
“In ambiguous situations which appear frightening, people orient themselves
towards individuals who seem to provide security…to solve their problems and reduce their feelings of anxiety and insecurity.”
Detlef Oesterreich
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
“In ambiguous situations which appear frightening, people orient themselves
towards individuals who seem to provide security…to solve their problems and reduce their feelings of anxiety and insecurity.”
Detlef Oesterreich
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Flight into Security: A New Approach and Measure of the Authoritarian Personality
A basic pattern of human response to stressful and uncertain situations which provoke anxiety and insecurity is to seek security and shelter. Those who provide support become by a process of psycholo....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 28, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Why people like dictators:
“In ambiguous situations which appear frightening, people orient themselves
towards individuals who seem to provide security…to solve their problems and reduce their feelings of anxiety and insecurity.”
Detlef Oesterreich
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
“In ambiguous situations which appear frightening, people orient themselves
towards individuals who seem to provide security…to solve their problems and reduce their feelings of anxiety and insecurity.”
Detlef Oesterreich
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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There are lessons from the social media age that AI search firms can adopt to safeguard the flow of reliable news and information, writes Diane Chang. www.techpolicy.press/search-is-th...
Search is the Next Battle Front in the Information Wars | TechPolicy.Press
There are lessons from the social media age that AI search firms can adopt to safeguard the flow of reliable news and information, writes Diane Chang.
www.techpolicy.press
November 27, 2024 at 4:26 PM
There are lessons from the social media age that AI search firms can adopt to safeguard the flow of reliable news and information, writes Diane Chang. www.techpolicy.press/search-is-th...
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Fact check: A clip of Rachel Maddow breaking down on MSNBC does NOT show her reaction to a meme Elon Musk posted on Sunday. It's from 2018 and shows her emotional response to an AP story about babies and toddlers taken from their parents and sent to “tender age” shelters at the southern border.
November 25, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Fact check: A clip of Rachel Maddow breaking down on MSNBC does NOT show her reaction to a meme Elon Musk posted on Sunday. It's from 2018 and shows her emotional response to an AP story about babies and toddlers taken from their parents and sent to “tender age” shelters at the southern border.
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Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide since 1980 and is not held in check by vaccines, contrary to posts suggesting the deadly virus may circulate again if vaccines become optional.
www.reuters.com/fact-check/s...
www.reuters.com/fact-check/s...
Fact Check: Smallpox is eradicated, not held in check by vaccines
Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide since 1980 and is not held in check by vaccines, contrary to posts suggesting the deadly virus may circulate again if vaccines become optional.
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide since 1980 and is not held in check by vaccines, contrary to posts suggesting the deadly virus may circulate again if vaccines become optional.
www.reuters.com/fact-check/s...
www.reuters.com/fact-check/s...
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This image is spreading in English and Spanish posts attacking abortion rights advocates, but it is altered. The sign in the original photo carries a different message.
I tracked down the photographer, who said she was sad to see her work — and the woman and girl's faces — misused "to spread lies."
I tracked down the photographer, who said she was sad to see her work — and the woman and girl's faces — misused "to spread lies."
November 26, 2024 at 6:27 PM
This image is spreading in English and Spanish posts attacking abortion rights advocates, but it is altered. The sign in the original photo carries a different message.
I tracked down the photographer, who said she was sad to see her work — and the woman and girl's faces — misused "to spread lies."
I tracked down the photographer, who said she was sad to see her work — and the woman and girl's faces — misused "to spread lies."
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❌ This fake Elon Musk tweet has popped up on Bluesky, depicting a post saying he managed to “hack into nearly every swing-state in electronic ballot tabulator.”
It’s a fake screenshot.
It’s a fake screenshot.
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 PM
❌ This fake Elon Musk tweet has popped up on Bluesky, depicting a post saying he managed to “hack into nearly every swing-state in electronic ballot tabulator.”
It’s a fake screenshot.
It’s a fake screenshot.
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Calling people who correct false information a censorship regime is of course, a great example of Doublespeak. The whole foundation of scientific knowledge is based on the search for truth, and correcting for falsehoods.
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Donald Trump’s return sends shivers through the anti-misinformation world
Vow to crack down on the ‘censorship cartel’ has researchers worried — and Big Tech is on notice
www.ft.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Calling people who correct false information a censorship regime is of course, a great example of Doublespeak. The whole foundation of scientific knowledge is based on the search for truth, and correcting for falsehoods.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
"Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the bill would have "ushered in an unprecedented level of transparency, holding big tech to account for their systems and processes to prevent and minimise the spread of harmful misinformation and disinformation online.""
#Misinformation #Socialmedia
#Misinformation #Socialmedia
Australia dropped plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online reut.rs/4i07Wxv
November 24, 2024 at 1:42 AM
"Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the bill would have "ushered in an unprecedented level of transparency, holding big tech to account for their systems and processes to prevent and minimise the spread of harmful misinformation and disinformation online.""
#Misinformation #Socialmedia
#Misinformation #Socialmedia
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Seeing disinformation as a commodity helps better address the underlying motivations of its producers, distributors, and consumers, writes Article 19’s Etienne Koeppel.
Online Content is a Commodity: The Information Value Chain as a Framework for Tackling Disinformation | TechPolicy.Press
By seeing disinformation as a commodity, we can better address the underlying motivations of its producers, distributors, and consumers, writes Etienne Koeppel.
www.techpolicy.press
November 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Seeing disinformation as a commodity helps better address the underlying motivations of its producers, distributors, and consumers, writes Article 19’s Etienne Koeppel.
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Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app
November 23, 2024 at 5:54 AM
Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app
In the 2024 election, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris won in states requiring voter ID and in other states without such requirements 🗳️
#factcheck #USElection #Trump #Harris #Election2024
Read the facts behind an online narrative that suggests otherwise ⤵️
www.reuters.com/fact-check/k...
#factcheck #USElection #Trump #Harris #Election2024
Read the facts behind an online narrative that suggests otherwise ⤵️
www.reuters.com/fact-check/k...
Fact Check: Kamala Harris won states requiring voter ID in 2024 election
Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris won in states that required voter ID in the 2024 presidential election, contrary to online posts suggesting her wins were limited to states without any voter ID requirements.
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:23 AM
In the 2024 election, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris won in states requiring voter ID and in other states without such requirements 🗳️
#factcheck #USElection #Trump #Harris #Election2024
Read the facts behind an online narrative that suggests otherwise ⤵️
www.reuters.com/fact-check/k...
#factcheck #USElection #Trump #Harris #Election2024
Read the facts behind an online narrative that suggests otherwise ⤵️
www.reuters.com/fact-check/k...