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Journalism right in your lughole

Three fabulous podcast episodes that are well worth your time.

Anyone know of any big stories happening today?

There's got to be something. Maybe an election somewhere?

Clickbait, comments and screen apnea

The complexities of clickbait, the problem of scale in comments — and why you're breathing wrong when you're staring at a screen…

TikTok hides the money

Plus AI is polluting search already, and the industry jobs bloodbath continues.

Readers Write: on comment toxicity and TikTok arguments

The important figures The Times omitted, evidence of real name toxicity and more feedback from readers

The Times tames trolls with the power of naming

The results of The Times’s experiment in enforcing real names in comments look promising, and the EU starts looking warily at TikTok.

Morning Conference: turn those damn comments off (now that you can)

The need for intelligent skepticism, proved through links

Can you trust your commenters? Can you trust your transcription service? In the digital world, here be dragons…

Naming and shaming is not a community management strategy

The Bristol Post named and shamed abusive commentators. But that was the easy option.