The AI view from Gaza
Fake images in real stories, niches fight lies and BeReal BeDoomed, in Friday's round up of audience and journalism news.
substack
Why I don't read the Press Gazette newsletter now
The problem with playing the platform game, even if it's a newsletter platform. And another reason to mistrust AI…
Journalism
How to journalist better
This issue guaranteed to be 100% Halloween free — unless you're really scared of AI content…
Social Media
Social: shifting, selling and struggling
An alliterative end to the week, with a look at the state of social media.
Social Media
Post-Twitter death-match update: Pebble is down. Who’s next?
One would-be Twitter replacement crashes and burns, while an unexpected challenger is sneaking up behind the pack. Uncertain times in the social media world.
SEO
Dispatches from the SEO trenches
A quick round-up of news for those of you battling with Google's ever-shifting algorithm. Are you a Google Entity yet?
LinkedIn
LinkedIn wants to connect with you, news
Plus Meta stitches Threads into Facebook, and Substack works around Musk’s headlines ban.
YouTube
Cuttings #10: YouTube is coming for your news
YouTube wants your news videos — and your podcasts (but ad-free). Plus more evidence that we need to get serious about video… again.