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O modelo de jornalismo com o qual nos acostumamos a conviver já não consegue mais manter o fluxo necessário de informações e notícias no nível de confiabilidade exigido pela sociedade contemporânea. A pá de cal está sendo dada pela inteligência artificial (IA) porque ela aprofunda ainda mais o ciclo de mudanças na profissão, iniciado com […] O post A IA como pá de cal no jornalismo tradicional apareceu primeiro em Observatório da Imprensa.

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Federal officials have repeatedly claimed that criticizing immigration officials or identifying officers is unlawful and dangerous, despite clear First Amendment protections for both. Now, the government appears to be taking a disturbing new step: investigating Americans for posting information on social media that originally appeared in news reports.This tactic allows the government to kill two birds with one stone: censoring individual critics and limiting the reach of the press. If the government can deter people from sharing news reports through threats of investigation or prosecution, it can undermine the public impact of journalism without ever censoring a newsroom directly.Local news outlet Syracuse.com reported last month that federal agents tracked down a New York woman to demand she remove a social media post that they claimed threatened Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel. Agents confronted the woman, Paigelynne Gonyea, where she worked at a polling place and demanded she sign a form letter stating she could be criminally prosecuted for threatening a federal officer.Gonyea told Syracuse.com that she believed agents were referring to a January Instagram post “where she named the ICE agent who shot protester Renee Good.” In the post, Gonyea shared a picture of the agent, Jonathan Ross, that The Minnesota Star Tribune used in its news report first identifying him as the shooter.Gonyea wrote, “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”The Department of Homeland Security later told The Associated Press that Gonyea also posted Ross’ home address, and a spokeswoman shared with the AP reporter a different, redacted social media post purporting to come from Gonyea’s account. But Gonyea denied posting Ross’ address, and DHS has not made the alleged post publicly available. Gonyea also told NPR that agents who came to the polling station had a copy of her Instagram post with the photo of Ross, which does not include his address.Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which investigated Gonyea and other incidents it claims amounted to illegal “doxxing” of ICE agents. We’re seeking records about whether the investigations of Gonyea and others are based on people reposting information from news outlets, or have otherwise targeted journalism.These records should be made public, especially because the agents’ legal warnings to Gonyea closely track similar threats the federal government has made to journalists. Administration officials have repeatedly claimed that journalists who photograph or name ICE officers are doxxing officers, inciting violence, or even committing violence. The First Amendment, however, protects publishing truthful, lawfully obtained information and photographing officers in public, whether it’s done by journalists or others.In addition, if Gonyea is right that agents confronted her over an Instagram post repeating information from the Tribune, then the government’s actions may reveal a new way it’s trying to suppress reporting. DHS may not be able to censor reporting by chilling journalists, but it can suppress the news if it can scare people out of reposting it.Another of the administration’s favorite tricks, intimidating journalists’ sources, stops newsgathering before it starts. But when a story slips through the cracks, bullying those who share it offers a censorship backup plan. Another of the administration’s favorite tricks, intimidating journalists’ sources, stops newsgathering before it starts. But when a story slips through the cracks, bullying those who share it offers a censorship backup plan. This strategy also allows DHS to avoid directly confronting news outlets and journalists, who are better positioned to fight back against unconstitutional censorship orders or other First Amendment violations. Regular people are more likely to be dissuaded by the threat of criminal prosecution and less likely to bring court cases that can result in precedent that checks government power.This undermines journalism’s ability to hold power accountable. Freedom of the press means little if no one can talk about a news story because they’re scared they’ll go to jail.We must also remain vigilant against other ways that the government may be going around journalists and outlets to suppress news published online. Gonyea’s experience raises the disturbing possibility that the government could be pressuring tech platforms to remove posts by people that reference news reports about ICE by claiming that they’re illegal.The Department of Justice has already coerced Facebook into removing at least one group that allowed people to report sightings of federal agents, arguing that it was inciting violence. It also pressured Apple and Google into removing ICE tracking apps based on similarly spurious claims.We don’t know whether this has happened in cases involving other types of online content, including with demands to remove posts that simply repeat information from news reports, because these requests are often invisible to the public.News outlets may raise alarms when platforms remove their reporting, but individual users are less likely to publicly object if their posts citing a news story are removed. Platforms’ transparency reports are too vague and high level to shed light on these demands. FOIA requests about the government’s demands for platforms can help, but often only if you have the ability to sue.Whether the government quietly coerces platforms into removing individual posts about the news or loudly pressures individual Americans into taking them down themselves, the effect is the same: The public’s ability to see, share, and discuss reporting that holds officials accountable is limited.These tactics must be recognized as a threat to press freedom, even if they don’t directly involve a newsroom. Freedom of the press can’t end when the news story is published. Defending a free press means defending everyone’s right to participate in the public conversation that allows that journalism to spread.

A nova batalha da mídia pela audiência na era da IA generativa já começou e segue aberta. Publishers e plataformas disputam a atenção de um público que quer ser escutado, compreendido e informado do jeito que quer, pelo meio que preferir. As plataformas de inteligência artificial, como ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, tiram a fricção das buscas […] O post IA e mídia iniciam disputa por audiência e faturamento apareceu primeiro em Observatório da Imprensa.

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Financial support for the planning phase of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta tunnel has plummeted among Kern County agricultural water districts as they continue to seek definitive answers about water supplies and how the tunnel will operate. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) had been seeking $33 million from Kern districts to be paid in two […]

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(The Center Square) - Fires across the southwestern U.S. have picked up early this year, with over 400,000 acres burning just between Utah and Colorado. The quick and early spread of wildfires comes after a short and warm winter across many Western states. In total, over 546,000 acres are currently burning in wildfires across the U.S., with the vast majority in the West. That was about 146% of the average year-to-date acreage burn during the last 10 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. “We knew going into this season that large areas of the West had not received their normal snowpack and were struggling with drought,” said Al Nash, the public information officer for the Alaska Incident Management Team assigned to fight Colorado’s Aspen Acres Fire. “We know that that drought condition is an underlying reason for this fire to have started and grown like it has," Nash told The Center Square Wednesday. Utah has seen the worst of the wildfire season with over 239,000 acres burning, followed by Colorado at 187,000. The two states currently hold the undesirable title for the two largest wildfires across the U.S. Utah’s Babylon Fire passed 100,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, becoming the state’s largest fire in eight years. “We've been under a stretch of really hot, dry, and windy conditions for quite a long period now. And that's just been really drying out our fuels, making them a lot more receptive to combustion,” National Weather Service meteorologist Braeden Winters told The Center Square. Winters is based in NWS' Grand Junction, Colorado, office, which serves neighboring Utah in addition to Colorado. “Add to it the days around when it ignited, especially through that weekend of the 27th and 28th, we saw really strong winds and wind gusts down in that area," Winter said Wednesday about Utah. The fire, located 25 miles southwest of Monticello in southeastern Utah, has destroyed five structures. That’s according to the local U.S. Forest Service office, which also reported that over 1,300 people had been assigned to help put out the fire. They've contained 11% of the fire. To date, 22 helicopters, 68 wildfire truck engines, four bulldozers and 21 water tenders have been used to fight the Babylon Fire. The U.S. Forest Service reported that gusty thunderstorms had swept out much of the smoke and air quality remained good to moderate in communities near the fire. The Center Square was unable to determine a total cost for the wildfire suppression effort for the Babylon Fire, which started June 26. No deaths had been reported as of Wednesday afternoon. Live updates for the Babylon Fire can be found on the U.S. Forest Service-Manti-La Sal National Forest Facebook page. The Babylon Fire is currently the largest wildfire across the U.S., followed closely by Colorado’s 96,000-acre Aspen Acres Fire. The Colorado blaze was 15% contained as of Wednesday morning, according to the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control’s assigned Alaska Incident Management Team. No lives had been lost, and no serious injuries had been caused by the wildfire as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the Incident Management Team. Total costs to fight the fire have grown to $17.9 million. “It's very hard to estimate how much this fire is going to cost in the end,” said Nash. “We've had some good success, but we've got a lot of people on this fire. There's a lot of work yet to do.” Over 1,600 people were reported to be working on the fire in Custer and Pueblo counties in Southern Colorado. The Center Square was unable to determine the exact number of evacuations, but the Incident Management Team said there had been roughly 10,800 in Pueblo County, with some evacuations in three other counties. A flash flood watch was in effect Wednesday as thunderstorms rolled across the wildfire area, which had already received a small amount of rain. The Incident Management Team said the additional rain could be helpful for the fire, but could also present new challenges to firefighters if it triggered a flash flood. “It's kind of like a double-edged sword, right?” National Weather Service meteorologist Clint Skelly told The Center Square Wednesday. “We want rain, of course, to help put out the fire," said Skelly, who's based in Pueblo, Colorado. "However, there's impacts coming from the rain that could be very dangerous for, say the the frontline workers who are working the fire.” At least 266 homes were believed to have been destroyed by the Aspen Acres Fire, which began June 29. “While it's grown every day, the amount of new growth has been slowing,” Nash said of the fire. Live updates for the Aspen Acres Fire can be found on the Aspen Acres Fire 2026 Facebook page. This year’s roaring fire season follows early heat waves across the Southwest. Paired with droughts, snowpacks crucial to preventing wildfires have been wiped out earlier than usual in the year, which opened the door to the sweeping wildfires being felt Wednesday. “We recognize that the conditions here are not unique, and that as we move through July into August and the fall, we can certainly expect to see additional large fires that are in part due to the lack of winter snowpack,” said Nash. Nevada is currently battling over 44,000 acres of wildfire, including the 26,000-acre Grapevine Fire in Southern Nevada, which has been 99% contained as of Tuesday. Over 27,000 acres of wildfire are being battled in Arizona. In Colorado, Skelly said the impact of fires last long after the last flame is extinguished. “Yes, the fire is ongoing, but the impacts of the fire are going to last many many years from now," the Pueblo meteorologist told The Center Square. "Flash flooding is going to be a risk at least for the next five years over the Aspen Acres burn scar.” Elsewhere in the West, California, Oregon and Wyoming have seen smaller fires than those in Colorado and Utah.

Arma erabiliko lukeen jendarmeari edo poliziari zilegizko defentsa presuntzioa bideratzen zaionez, biktimaren esku geratuko da frogatzea tirokatzeko orduan legea urratu zela. Horren alde egin du diputatuen gehiengo handiak. Iaz, 49 pertsona hil zituen Frantziako Poliziak, eta aurten dagoeneko 22 hildako zenbatuta dira.

Ikasturtea amaituta, berriro ere Hezkuntza Sailak sare pribatuaren alde egiten duela salatu beharrean gaude. Denona den eskola publikoaren mesedean lan egin beharrean, diru publikoa eta planifikazio osoa ekimen pribatuetara bideratzen du. Hona hemen adibide batzuk: Ikasturte honetan “Eskola Bikaina Denontzat” izeneko mahaiak sare pribatura diru gehiago bideratzeko mekanismoak ezarri berri ditu datozen urteei begira (balizko doakotasuna, eskola motxila, planifikazioa…). Sailburua pozik agertu da eta lortutako adostasun maila goraipatu du, nahiz eta sare publikoko eragileek, edo ez duten parte hartu, edo bidean zehar mahaia utzi duten, edota mantendu diren ahots kritikoak erabat baztertuak izan diren. 2021etik hona %46 handitu da sare pribatuaren finantziazioa; egun 2 urtetik 18ra arteko eskolaratze osoa itunduta dagoelarik, legeak agintzen duenaren gainetik; 2026ko aurrekontuetan, irakaskuntza pribatuari inoiz izan duen finantzazio handiena eman diote, 920 milioi euro, aurreko ikasturtean baino %11 gehiago. Gogora dezagun 2023ko abenduan aurrera atera zuen Hezkuntza Legeak eskola publikoa bigarren mailara alboratzen duela, bi sareen arteko oreka aitzakia jarrita. Lege hura, urtez urte sisteman pisua galtzen ari zen sare pribatuari bultzada emateko sortu zuten. Hura guztia publikoko eragileen iritzia kontuan hartu gabe egin zen. Sare publikoko arduradun gorenak sare horren kontra legeak sustatu eta erabakiak hartu ditu, sare pribatuaren ordezkariekin eskuz esku, inolako erreparorik gabe Selektibitatearen edo USaP probaren inguruan bizi izan dugun auzian, Hezkuntza sailburuak guztiz kolokan jarri du bere ardurapeko langileen profesionaltasuna, eta unibertsitate publikoaren defentsan atera beharrean, ikastetxe kontzertatuetako familia batzuen alde lerratu da, bide batez, euskararekiko erabateko begirune falta erakutsiz. Laburtuz, sare publikoko arduradun gorenak sare horren kontra legeak sustatu eta erabakiak hartu ditu, sare pribatuaren ordezkariekin eskuz esku, inolako erreparorik gabe. Gure ustez ez da utzikeria, jokabide kontzientea baizik. Kurtsoaren bilakaera ikusita, USaPeko zeroak ez dira bakarrak izango. Eskola publikoaren kudeaketa baloratu beharko bagenu, Begoña Pedrosak ere zeroa jasoko luke, ez duelako eskola publikoa bere lehentasunen artean jarri, ezta bere hezkuntza-politikaren erdigunean ere. Espero dugu datorren ikasturtean norabidea zuzendu, publikoaren alde lan gehiago egin eta benetan eskola publikoa bere lehentasuna izaten hastea. Irailetik aurrera ebaluazio jarraitua egingo diogu Begoña Pedrosari, erabakiak gertutik aztertuta. Eskola publikoak axola duelako. Euskal Eskola Publikoaz Harro Topagunea

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A legislative ethics committee found that Homer Republican Rep. Sarah Vance violated Alaska ethics law when she used official legislative letterhead to publicly condemn a Homer News story last September. The story was about a local vigil she helped organize for Charlie Kirk, a right-wing political activist who was assassinated last year.  The House Subcommittee […]

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