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Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gather to greet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a roadshow in Varanasi, India, Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar)
The ongoing general election is a pressure test for how to report on political voice clones and video spoofs.
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With annual revenue of $45 million and a staff approaching 200 people, ProPublica has been one of the big journalism winners of the past decade. And it’s been unusually willing to spread that wealth around the country.
“I see, every week, some example of where the two don’t understand each other. Each of them needs to shift a little bit.”
“We will all have to adjust to a new workflow. If it is a bottleneck, it will be a failure.”
“So much of the media coverage — and the trial itself — started at the point at which we’ve determined that [Lucy] Letby is an evil murderer; all her texts, notes, and movements are then viewed through that lens.”
“We feel like we really owe it to our readers to be honest about the stakes and to let them know that we truly cannot do this work without them.”
“We get requests from all over the world, and everyone says that their country is experiencing unprecedented levels of polarization or a breakdown in social cohesion.”
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The news aggregator app has focused on puzzles and games that are “more welcoming to newcomers.”