A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet

OptOut aims to be a daily news app "100% free from corporate media narratives."

The architect of the Wu-Tang Clan and his young cast discuss their new 10-part Hulu show, ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’

What is Post News? Founded by former Waze CEO Noam Bardin, the Twitter competitor just raised funding from Andreessen Horowitz.

"It is capitalism that incentivizes the degradation of our news media — disinvesting in local journalism, weaponizing social media to capture our attention and data, and devaluing media workers’ labor conditions."

pEver since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]/p

Come for Josh's rant on the future of the internet, stay for his conversation with Vincenzo Natali, director of 'Cube,' 'Splice,' and your favorite episodes of 'Hannibal,' who has taken on William Gibson's reality-bending book 'The Peripheral' and turned it into electrifying TV. The two discuss how horror is in our DNA, his creative relationship with AI, and the difficulties of turning 80's sci-fi into modern art. Discussed: Ray Harryhausen, math that kills you, "big" iPads.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BuzzFeed stock has plunged more than 60 percent this year.

Twitter is losing its most active users and turning into a porn-and-crypto fest as "interest in news, sports and entertainment" wanes, according to Reuters' Sheila Dang, who saw internal research from the company. Also check out "What happens to journalists after Twitter?" and &…

The decision to shut down Bulletin is an indication that Facebook found a subscriber-focused site was not as lucrative as hoped.

The notion that capitalism metabolizes dissent is no longer theoretical but embodied in the architecture of its most profitable corporate technologies.

What I learned in year two, and what comes next

Both advocacy groups and political leaders tend to assume that misinformation persists on social media because the platforms are unwilling to get rid of it—a gross and unhelpful oversimplification. Some of the largest technology companies in the world spend tens of billions of dollars each year ...

A complete redesign of The Verge that marries the best of old-school blogging with a modern news feed experience.

The video platform is finally dedicating real resources to growing its podcast offerings.

The partnership has not issued a new fact check since 2020. It only fact checked Schmitt once and found the claim it was looking into to be “mostly true.”

"For me, fundamentally, the mistake was thinking that journalism was where Medium was going to shine."

Early coverage sidestepped conversations about the unique kinds of gendered racism that a Black girl from a working-class California neighborhood might face on the professional tour.

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One of the world’s most powerful news outlets has a new mandate — which happens to sync with the views of one of the world’s richest men.

The three guests will talk to Swisher about Steve Jobs.

The Substack frenzy seems like a thing of the past, but lots of publishers are still leaning into newsletters. "They’re a great minimally viable product."

"We do advocate against the racist function of policing, [but] we focus equally on being present in the community, doing poetry nights, basketball park takeovers, and other community-building, life-affirming activities."

Apple has released a free web app that lets podcasters create artwork and links to promote their shows on Apple Podcasts. The app offers several customization options that should appeal to a wide variety of creators who want to market their shows on Apple’s service. Still, there are a couple of limitations worth keeping in

The deadline is July 11th

Navigating a strange new world through tech.

Ireland has a storied history of legendary parties and productions. Likewise, Buckfast and dance music, especially sounds on the harder end of the spectrum go together like slip matts and dubplates and there’s few places where this relationship is more implicitly intertwined. Andrew Moore took a virtual roadtrip to all corners of the country to explore the disparate thriving microscenes and get a snapshot of the sounds shaping their cities.