I'm VERY excited to launch a new project today! Rest of World's AI Elections Tracker will track incidents of AI being used around elections globally - for campaigning, misinformation, and memes. Check out our entries so far - restofworld.org/2024/elections…

New piece by me, Sarah Butler and Jack Simpson 💚 on looming food shortages and price hike due to extreme weather theguardian.com/environment/20…

More than 70% of the 33,000 people killed in Gaza are women and children bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

Police officer on the Today programme saying there's 'more access to guns and knives' in the UK than previously, but the stats don't back that up, especially re guns

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All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds dlvr.it/T51h2w

Let’s say it plainly: Fact-checking is not censorship poynter.org/commentary/202…

Chase Peterson-Withorn, wealth editor for Forbes, said it had been an 'amazing' year for the world's richest.

'Even during times of financial uncertainty for many, the super-rich continue to thrive,' he added.

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Muslims and Christians shared a two-kilometer-long table in the streets of Antwerp, Belgium, as Ramadan and Easter coincided: 'We are a very nice example of how it can go in a different way.'

This is a really good point about how social media has changed how we all get information and journalism's role within that.

The role of journalist as 'sensemaker' is more important than ever, but doing that without the appearance of bias is harder

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This tweet has got a lot of people talking about why Britain seems so short of electric railways.

15 years ago, it was about to be very different. And then things went very wrong. 🧵

'I’m not afraid of AI as a journalist. We are so good at leveraging new tools to report and deliver the news. Generative AI is just the latest.'

I spoke to Phoebe Connelly about her new role as The Washington Post's first-ever AI strategy editor.
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England A&E wait times led to needless deaths of up to 14,000, data suggests theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

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Ten things that went right this week
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