JUST IN: Elon Musk confirms X will start charging all new users a 'small fee' before they can post, like, or bookmark.

5/5/20 to 4/15/24

It took TV Patrol almost 4 years to air again on its old frequency.

Happy for former colleagues to have their work seen again by a much wider audience.

I will relinquish my role as PM on 15 May 2024 & Lawrence Wong will be sworn in as the next PM on the same day. I ask all Singaporeans to give Lawrence & his team your full support, & work with them to create a brighter future for Singapore. – LHL go.gov.sg/handover-date

The right to self defence allows a state to repel an ongoing or imminent attack by another state. It does not allow a state to retaliate against an already concluded attack. It does not allow a state to attack another because of the potential of future attacks.

Fresh from Jessup, now Stetson. World Champions. Congratulations, UP Law!

Armed retaliation is not self-defence

Always happy to see familiar faces.

Kat Domingo was in DC for PH president’s working visit. My turn to support her as she reported live for TV Patrol at 6:30am!

Literally, anumang oras, anumang panahon, naglilingkod saan man sa mundo!

TVP back on Ch2 starting Apr 15!

Middle East situation @ 22.10 UK time:
- Jordan declares state of emergency, closes airspace
- Iran will try to flood Israeli defences by launching different drone and missiles types, with varied attack profiles
- Israel + US attempts to shoot them down, similarly, layered
-…

IRAN ATTACK ON ISRAEL

- Iran confirms 'massive' drone attack, believed to involve over 50 drones launched towards Israel.

- Attack reportedly includes missiles.

- Iranian sources claim drones have also been launched from Yemen.

- Airspace of Israel, Iran, Iraq and Jordan set…

Why was it wrong to suspend SMNI for airing a false report against the Speaker—but right to sanction the network for its hosts’ repeated lies? This week’s column is an attempt to use the key distinctions drawn by media critic Jay Rosen to a PH case.

rappler.com/voices/thought…

I've been waiting 29 years to tell this story about OJ and his days at USC. Now that he's dead (may he burn in hell) I have a story that I signed an NDA for that is no longer valid. I was a junior at USC working in Topping Student Center on campus in 1995. I was an administrative…

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre previews bilateral meeting with President Biden and Philippine President Marcos and the “surge” of high end investments into infrastructure, clean energy and connectivity.

Our AI Accountability Network is launching the AI Spotlight Series, a program that seeks to share widely the skills & knowledge journalists need to cover AI and its profound influence on society.

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Missed our webinar on Investigating Elections: Threat from AI Audio Deepfakes?

Silas Jonathan Silas, Shayan Sardarizadeh, & Ольга Юркова shared tips, tools, & resources to identify, investigate & verify potential deepfakes.

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✍️🏾Hundreds of news content creators and others have signed an open letter to Meta asking the company to reverse its decision to limit the reach of accounts posting “political content” on Threads and Instagram, reports TaylorLorenz.Substack.com for The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

The best part of South Korean election night: the graphics.

Hello, Chin of VERA Files and World Movement here!

Kung ikaw ay 👶 18-34 y/o, 🇵🇭 taga-Pinas, at self-identified na tagasubaybay (consumer) o taga-iwas (avoider) ng balita, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Sign up for FGDs I’m holding with other ✨young people✨ this weekend:

Checkbook journ = paying for an interview

“The Lehrmann interviews were incapable of being represented as impartial because they had been bought and paid for. Seven’s failure to disclose this and, far worse, its active concealment of the truth, perpetrated a fraud on the public”

Always sad to see news operations come to a close, wherever in the world that might be.

But it is what it is — shrinking media space — which can only be bad for news consumers.

Failure to uphold & enforce election-integrity policies and expand non-English staffing to monitor disinfo, political deepfakes & other harmful content will be catastrophic to free & fair elections worldwide. From me, Maria Ressa, Center for Countering Digital Hate Check My Ads: freepress.net/news/press-rel…