John O'Sullivan
@osullivansjohn.bsky.social
Doing journalism and news media research at School of Communications/FuJo, Dublin City University.
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Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath to run EU’s hub to fight disinformation
Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath to run EU’s hub to fight disinformation
The Democracy Shield, published by the Commission on Wednesday, is a strategic effort by the EU to fight hybrid online disinformation attacks from Russia and others
dlvr.it
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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📢 New Press Release:
Data Protection Commission statement on LinkedIn AI Training
🔗 www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...
Data Protection Commission statement on LinkedIn AI Training
🔗 www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
📢 New Press Release:
Data Protection Commission statement on LinkedIn AI Training
🔗 www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...
Data Protection Commission statement on LinkedIn AI Training
🔗 www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...
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15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
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Far more significant than the podcast is Ivan Yates working with a national broadcaster Newstalk as a pundit when he was working for FF as an advisor ...surely the regulator has something to say about this ? www.newstalk.com/podcasts/cal.... #Spéirghorm
Calling It | Newstalk
Ivan Yates and Seán Defoe analyse the Presidential Election, reviewing candidates, the state of their campaigns, and predicting who will be moving into the ...
www.newstalk.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Far more significant than the podcast is Ivan Yates working with a national broadcaster Newstalk as a pundit when he was working for FF as an advisor ...surely the regulator has something to say about this ? www.newstalk.com/podcasts/cal.... #Spéirghorm
@remedeu.bsky.social has an interesting event coming up, based on a study of fact-checkers in which we ran Irish interviews. Relevant to policy-makers, media organisations and practitioners, civil society organizations, academics, students and interested citizens.
resilientmedia.eu?p=1899
resilientmedia.eu?p=1899
ONLINE POLICY FORUM – Content moderation for democratic resilience: policy recommendations from a European study of fact-checkers – Wednesday 12 November 2025, 14.30-15.30 CET
resilientmedia.eu
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
@remedeu.bsky.social has an interesting event coming up, based on a study of fact-checkers in which we ran Irish interviews. Relevant to policy-makers, media organisations and practitioners, civil society organizations, academics, students and interested citizens.
resilientmedia.eu?p=1899
resilientmedia.eu?p=1899
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Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers.
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers.
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
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"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
![Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake:
“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreickzwdynkak7r4lur6afktglm3gontqsq5r5c7jeewyecyd4dczla@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
Postdoctoral researchers Irene Psychari and Callum Craig guiding participants through the @remedeu.bsky.social @fujomedia.bsky.social Citizen Lab on toxic news, held earlier this week in partnership with @imec-smit.bsky.social. Many thanks to all who took part so productively over two days!
October 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Postdoctoral researchers Irene Psychari and Callum Craig guiding participants through the @remedeu.bsky.social @fujomedia.bsky.social Citizen Lab on toxic news, held earlier this week in partnership with @imec-smit.bsky.social. Many thanks to all who took part so productively over two days!
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Is this a new chapter in how knowledge circulates?
Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines
go.nature.com/3J82tYH
go.nature.com/3J82tYH
AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.
go.nature.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Is this a new chapter in how knowledge circulates?
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We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
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45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds
45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds
Global meat and dairy production's environmental footprint dwarfs that of all EU member states and the UK combined, according to a new report.
euobserver.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds
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So many species are being eliminated by the greed of some humans that we have entered an era of extinction that resembles the death of the dinosaurs. We are part of nature and every loss diminishes us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer
Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
So many species are being eliminated by the greed of some humans that we have entered an era of extinction that resembles the death of the dinosaurs. We are part of nature and every loss diminishes us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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When administrators try to soft-pedal censorship of student press by cutting only the print edition, they are reminding us that paper is the medium of liberatory potential.
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
When administrators try to soft-pedal censorship of student press by cutting only the print edition, they are reminding us that paper is the medium of liberatory potential.
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"If the conductor is far-right and you’re reacting to it, you cannot decide which music should be playing.”
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"If the conductor is far-right and you’re reacting to it, you cannot decide which music should be playing.”
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⏱ There's still time to have your say on our draft #MediaPluralism Policy. It outlines the importance of public service media, quality journalism, informed choice and inclusion in the media landscape. This important public #consultation is open until 5pm on 24 October 2025 - see below for more...
Public consultation on our draft Media Pluralism Policy now open - Coimisiún na Meán
Coimisiún na Meán has today (1 September 2025) opened a public consultation on its draft Media Pluralism Policy. The Policy is intended to provide clarity on Coimisiún na Meán’s understanding of media...
www.cnam.ie
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
⏱ There's still time to have your say on our draft #MediaPluralism Policy. It outlines the importance of public service media, quality journalism, informed choice and inclusion in the media landscape. This important public #consultation is open until 5pm on 24 October 2025 - see below for more...
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Deletion of Jim Gavin ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture
I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Liz Carolan: Deleting of ‘Jim Gavin for President’ ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture
Campaign history will be wiped out as providers of digital political ads press delete on their archives
www.irishtimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Deletion of Jim Gavin ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture
I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Bari Weiss has officially been announced as the editor in chief of CBS News. “She’s not a reporter; she’s never been in the field,” a 60 Minutes producer told Adam Piore for a recent profile of CBS. “Talk about controversies.”
www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...
www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...
For the past year, journalists at CBS News have been up against extraordinary pressure. The network reached a tipping point.
“Who would have thought this is the piece that would get me fired?” Bill Owens, the former executive producer of 60 Minutes, said in the screening room. For the past year, CBS journalists have been up...
www.cjr.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Bari Weiss has officially been announced as the editor in chief of CBS News. “She’s not a reporter; she’s never been in the field,” a 60 Minutes producer told Adam Piore for a recent profile of CBS. “Talk about controversies.”
www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...
www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...
So sad. A tragic loss for Irish culture and journalism.
October 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
So sad. A tragic loss for Irish culture and journalism.
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"Fish kills, polluted drinking water, declining wildlife populations, and increased emissions are a direct result of politicians’ policy decisions".
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Catherine Conlon: We are choosing business over nature every single time
Fish kills, polluted drinking water, declining wildlife populations, and increased emissions are a direct result of politicians’ policy decisions
www.irishexaminer.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Fish kills, polluted drinking water, declining wildlife populations, and increased emissions are a direct result of politicians’ policy decisions".
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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“Every photo is not just for history. It’s for my family, my neighbors, my people.”
“They Fear Our Lenses”: Gaza Photojournalists Speak Out
Photographers in Gaza risk their lives to witness the war. Their images speak louder than the critics trying to discredit them.
interc.pt
October 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“Every photo is not just for history. It’s for my family, my neighbors, my people.”
Here's a direct (working) link: youtu.be/8Cq2XdZv2dk?...
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Here's a direct (working) link: youtu.be/8Cq2XdZv2dk?...
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✨ Need some inspiration? Check out this story about a 26-year-old who took over his hometown newspaper in Winslow, AZ, & has gotten great support from his community.
👀 It's featured in The Sift. Read & subscribe: go.newslit.org/Sift29Sept2025
#Journalism
👀 It's featured in The Sift. Read & subscribe: go.newslit.org/Sift29Sept2025
#Journalism
Gen Z journalist buys dying hometown newspaper of small Arizona town—now it's growing
Shawn White never imagined he’d become a Gen Z publisher or take the reins of his hometown paper. But two years later, the paper continues to serve the community.
www.12news.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
✨ Need some inspiration? Check out this story about a 26-year-old who took over his hometown newspaper in Winslow, AZ, & has gotten great support from his community.
👀 It's featured in The Sift. Read & subscribe: go.newslit.org/Sift29Sept2025
#Journalism
👀 It's featured in The Sift. Read & subscribe: go.newslit.org/Sift29Sept2025
#Journalism
Wow. That's crazy.
It's wild to read that the Mirror will soon have just seven general news reporters working on "original news" stories across a seven day operation . pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Mirror to lose five 'general news reporters' in Reach shake-up
Reach is proposing to cut the number of general news reporters working on the Daily and Sunday Mirror from 12 to seven.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Wow. That's crazy.