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The Tow Center hosts a variety of diverse research projects that explore innovation at the intersection of journalism and technology. @[email protected]
New York, NY
Joined September 2011
Since Reddit struck licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, its traffic—and its importance to legacy media outlets—has surged, by @klaudiajaz of the @TowCenter.
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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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Spain’s PM at Columbia University: “Defending your country is one thing. But killing 60,000 civilians, bombing hospitals, and starving children to death is something else entirely.” “We are witnessing one of the darkest tragedies of the 21st century unfold before our eyes.” 🇪🇸
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Pink slime never went away. Politically motivated “journalism” has expanded into news media at every level. Read @emilybell of the @TowCenter. https://t.co/C2Zg8e2NKk
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When 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 @klaudiajaz @CJR @columbiajourn
https://t.co/kwj9LuRFyp
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“You don't know when it's just making stuff up.”
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This is not a surprise, but it's still helpful to read some concrete research showing that human fact-checkers are much better at verifying the source of photos than current AI chatbots. New report from @towcenter
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“You don't know when it's just making stuff up.”
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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. @DataDhrumil @_cjrobinson @TowCenter
https://t.co/OqodZF8E5O
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The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News.
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Killing the journalist will not kill the story. We stand in solidarity with journalists in Gaza risking their lives to tell the truth:
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Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.
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Traffic Apocalypse: Google’s AI Overviews are killing click-throughs to news sites, by Klaudia Jaźwińska of the @TowCenter.
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Google’s AI Overviews are killing click-throughs to news sites.
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this is a bidding war with huge implications for news in Dallas and Texas
NEW: Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group is making a last-minute bid for The Dallas Morning News, which reached a deal with Hearst earlier this month. MediaNews offering $16.50 a share to Hearst's $14
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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. @klaudiajaz @CJR @columbiajourn
https://t.co/5ByQNrCbv8
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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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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. @kay_lee_w @CJR
https://t.co/PH0yElPqmv
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A nontechnical guide.
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What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025, by @kay_lee_w of the @TowCenter.
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A nontechnical guide.
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🔍 AI Search Engines: popular, but potentially problematic. A new study from the @TowCenter for Digital Journalism reveals the hidden pitfalls in AI-powered search, like misattribution, misinformation and missing citations: https://t.co/8HB31sMrB9
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NEW: @klaudiajaz and @Aisvarya17 ran 1600 queries across eight generative AI search tools to see how they cite news content. They all did pretty poorly. @CJR @columbiajourn
https://t.co/M3gO728LLO
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Can LLMs be helpful in creating source audits? The Tow Center helped a reporter who spent 15 years covering Afghanistan identify who got to shape the narrative. https://t.co/JW3CeuCC4u
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Using large language models to conduct source audits of the news.
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Tow researchers @klaudiajaz & @Aisvarya17 tested Grok-3's ability to identify quotes from news publishers. Out of the 200 quotes tested, 102 returned hallucinated citations and the original source article was correctly cited only nine times. https://t.co/BXpUYe7NiP
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What to know about Elon Musk's new chatbot.
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Using large language models to conduct source audits of the news, from the @TowCenter.
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Using large language models to conduct source audits of the news.
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From February: "Despite reservations in some quarters of the news industry, the adoption of “platform AI” is largely viewed as a pragmatic choice driven by economic challenges..." @_FelixSimon_
https://t.co/xlT9BHi2i6
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Download the pdf here. Executive Summary Despite growing interest, the effects of AI on the news industry and our information environment — the public arena — remain poorly understood. Insufficient...
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An in-depth look inside @TowCenter, their research, and why they believe "community is at the heart of journalism."
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Last spring, amid a faith crisis in journalism, I found the Tow Center. I had heard about national media outlets shoving microphones in students’ faces during protests, mass layoffs at news publica...
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From January: The local news crisis has created a scramble to find ways to revive and sustain local journalism. Outlets funded by dark money have no such concerns; dark money is the business model... @beteprown @acookiecrumbles @andreawenzel
https://t.co/IobQnzHGf8
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As we hurtle towards 2024 elections, interest in pink slime journalism and the continued growth of partisan local outlets with deep, often opaque, ties to dark money, advocacy groups and other...
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