“With a situation like Gaza/Israel, any time you’re getting a comment from an official spokesperson, you should also be getting a comment from OSINT”

Ready to start your own community? “Start small — If you haven’t yet, open up a comments section for your newsletter and see how your readers respond to a weekly chat or discussion post.”

“Within Twitter’s current profit and engagement focused ecosystem, the weapons specialist and OSINT expert known as Calibre Obscura generalized that ‘this entire space is 90% grifters.’ The reason: ‘profit and the dopamine of likes and follows.'”

“We started in two regional markets — the world’s biggest, the U.S; and the world’s most ignored — sub-Saharan Africa. We expect to launch our third region next year.”

“Dozens of people were subjected to the searches. They were all journalists, like Urmilesh, or people associated with an Indian news website called NewsClick, known for articles and videos critical of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The site’s founder, Prabir Purkayastha, and its human-resources manager were arrested and are in custody.”

“Number one, I didn’t read it. And I won’t,” Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said in broadcast remarks. “Number two, all you got to do is look at the author. The author is from communist China. What more do you need to know?”

Chris Stirewalt, a former politics editor at Fox News, noted that the selection of a new speaker “is, and should be, a very boring moment to most Americans. Under normal circumstances, most Americans can’t name the speaker of the House.”

“We fought for every comma and every word, sometimes calling editors at 11:00 p.m. or 6:00 a.m. to argue over the way something was phrased or demand a correction on a detail we believed was factually inaccurate … The fights were often contentious, sometimes crossing over into being nasty.”

“I think what people respond to in my voice is that it’s not a traditional broadcast voice. You know, I’m a Black woman from the South. And I sound like a Black woman from the South.”

“The company announced the change in a post on X, shortly after Wired reported that some community notes contributors are worried the tool is being manipulated by bad actors and worsening X’s misinformation problems amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.”

“At a time when local journalism is already in peril and more newspapers are using the mail to reach subscribers, this increase is simply punitive.”

“Indiana will soon become home to one of the most ambitious local media startups to date, fueled by more than ten million dollars—including a $1.8 million Lumina investment and more from AJP and several other Indiana-based foundations.”

The subscription, part of a so-called “Not A Bot” program, is beginning in New Zealand and the Philippines and is designed to “bolster our already significant efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity.”

“A funny thing happened in the course of Only in Dade’s rapid rise as the region’s hottest online time-killer: It inadvertently became a source of local news. Its wacky, endearing or alarming videos also get picked up by the local news, forming the basis of more traditional reports. And along the way, Only in Dade’s staff — a team that largely came up through marketing, digital production or comedy — have learned some of the basics of producing news.”

“[Deputy Prime Minister Matteo] Salvini, whose hard-right League party has long promised to completely abolish the subsidy for RAI, presented the cut as a first step.”