Behind The Blog
15 posts
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Pickleball Drama, Auto-Generated Women, and Really Big Drone Contracts
This week, we discuss uncovering government defense contracts, revealing fake "auto-generated" female speakers, and thoughts on FOIA.
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Behind the Blog: Disney Copyright, Singing Xi, and the Wizarding World of Effective Altruists
This week, we're looking at OpenAI-adjacent Harry Potter fanfic, Disney's AI generated copyright, and questions about Hugging Face's selectively-enforced terms.
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Behind the Blog: The TikTok Letter, Brand Safety, and AI Girlfriends Gone Offline
This week, we discuss the bin Laden TikTok controversy, how brand safety shapes the internet, and Instagram's enforcement of its own rules (or lack thereof).
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Behind the Blog: RIP Omegle, Refund Scams, and Tablet Thieves
This week, we discuss a groundbreaking investigation into Labcorp labor issues, the role of court records in our reporting, how "brand safety" has doomed the news industry, and the demise of a controversial website.
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Behind the Blog: Adblock Wars, Livestreaming Trauma, and Deepfake Bella Hadid
This week, we discuss why FOIA about surveillance is so important, more misinfo around Israel-Palestine, adblockers, and a controversial livestream.
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Behind the Blog: 'Transcendence,' Blogging on an iPad, and Freedom of Information
This week, we discuss what a sci-fi movie from 2014 has to say about our AI debate today, what it's like to blog on an iPad, and the importance of freedom of information laws.
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Behind the Blog: Drones, Journalism and Disinformation
This week, we discuss Jason's entry into journalism via drones and Emanuel and Sam's thoughts on the state of social media and disinformation today.
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Behind the Blog: Cops Gotta Catch 'Em All and Texas Porn Problems
This week, we discuss the right to view porn without being hassled about "brain impairment" in Texas, lurking in hacking groups, and "dumb" FOIAs.
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Behind the Blog: AI-Generated Cartoon Terrorism and Ticket Reseller Chaos
This week, we discuss AI-generated cartoon terrorism, ticket reseller shenanigans, and a bombshell government report.
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Behind the Blog: TikTok Doxing, the Roman Empire, and Alien ‘Encounters’
This week, we discuss chain smoking through Rome: Total War, the audacity of TikTok doxing accounts using facial recognition, and a big new documentary about aliens on Netflix.
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Behind the Blog: Busted Slots and Shadowy Surveillance
Joseph talks about why he focused on a surveillance vendor's politics, and Emanuel on the fallout from Google surfacing an AI-generated "selfie" of the infamous Tank Man.
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FBI Wiretapping, Mexico's 'Aliens,' and Pissed Off Game Developers
How we broke the news of another arrest and indictment of someone involved in a sex trafficking ring, getting inside a situation that's pissed off a lot of game developers, the balance of revealing news and finding narratives, and monumental right-to-repair progress.