Introducing free, independent and self-sustaining journalism, enabled by Civil’s decentralized newsmaking platform.

If there’s one graph that charts the decline of modern journalism, it’s this:

For years publishers haven’t had to worry about business models: they just captured attention and watched the money come in. Those days, though, are over: the publications that survive will s…

“The only hope for a serious pushback against misinformation will come from progress in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing. But it will take a while to come up with reliable models able to process at scale a firehose of news.”

Publishers give Facebook credit for listening to them, but those that are looking for tangible, meaningful benefits say the initiative hasn’t delivered.

by Frederic Filloux

As publishers realize reader revenue is crucial to their survival, reporters who once opposed paywalls are starting to embrace them.

Facebook wants to build community. Ditto media. Me, too.

An inside look at the inner workings of a technology you may take for granted