This piece argues that opaque AI algorithms on digital platforms are undermining trust in news, spreading misinformation, and threatening the survival of local journalism, calling for greater transparency, AI content labelling, and public media literacy.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 5 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
There's a call for a big crackdown on big tech. Major New Zealand businesses and community groups have penned an open letter calling for an independent regulator. They say the likes of Facebook and TikTok are failing to protect users from scams and misinformation. Now the letter was put together by Amnesty International. The director Lisa Woods is with us. Sure to have that. What is it that you're specifically worried about? Is it the spreading of the information or the failure to actually take it off once it's been drawn attention to?
Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.
critique of platforms' failure to compensate creators
Why I (mostly) left The Spinoff to start music platform Lumeplatforms lack responsibility for content decisions
AI decides what we see online. It’s time digital platforms tell us exactly how they do itSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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