Trust must be the next disruption in the news industry
The news environment isn't broken. Instead, it functions flawlessly for the tech corporations that designed it. It's time to replace it with a system rooted in trust and decentralisation.
The news environment isn't broken. Instead, it functions flawlessly for the tech corporations that designed it. It's time to replace it with a system rooted in trust and decentralisation.
Journalism’s imperfections are like a blessing if compared to the dystopic scenarios AI can create if operating by incentives unrelated to the greater good.
The debate is becoming increasingly difficult to follow, as certainties are suffocating everything that opposes them.
Is the tech market an Adam Smith paradise with perfect competition or a distorted ecosystem where incumbents are bound to always win?
Truth is the fundamental atom society relies on. Journalism must shift focus from mere facts to uniting diverse societal spectrums.
There is a disinformation market out there raging. Why aren’t we trying to make the lives of their operators harder?
Help desperately needed from tech companies won’t come to save journalism because the priorities are not - and won’t be - aligned.
Almost nine in ten citizens in Europe agree that disinformation is a major threat. Then why none seems to be ready to spend money with the problem?
Tackling disinformation may be opening the door for the UK government to create a surveillance apparatus. Is there a satisfactory balance between freedom of speech and curtailing disinformation?
We are on an environment where everyone talks, but none listens - a curious democracy paradox.
The rampant polarization in the US blinds the sophisticated audiences who see themselves as liberals - but they are no smaller part of the problem.
Disinformation does not exist without context, but context can only be deployed with the right social, economical and historical circumstances.
Virtuous coalitions to counter disinformation will not work while inequality, the real cause of the issue, is not challenged.
Artificial intelligence can help to solve some of the most terrible world problems, but without regulation, they can pave the way for catastrophes.
In 2006, every analyst thought Google would have endless legal battles when it bought YouTube. Will the same happen with AI?
Monitoring the Internet used to be one of the guarantors of public space. With all APIs closed, we are now literally blind to what is going on around us.
Bluesky arrival is great following Twitter’s erratic management, but its growth is severely limited by how crowded the market already is.
The multitude of realities, invisible to many, underlies the environment where people open themselves to embrace deceptive fabrications of the truth. Have we turned into a mass of psychopaths as the aftermath of our unfulfilled desires?
If we treat information as a market like any other, some basics from solid arenas like financial services could come handy.
The raging disinformation that creates a battleground around the world would be irrelevant if the economic gains brought by productivity didn’t foment inequality so much.