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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-07-15 13:50:47

Ozone: publisher ad supply in Q2 fell by 32% to 37% YoY in the US and 39% to 41% YoY in the UK, driven by AI-era zero-click search and reduced referral traffic (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
digiday.com/media/publisher-ad

Publisher ad supply fell by up to 40% in Q2 as AI search choked the open web
Publisher ad supply fell 40% in Q2 as AI‑era, zero‑click search choked the flow of traffic to news and other open‑web sites, per Ozone.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-15 18:45:45

Meta launches new AI features, including an "AI Mode" for search that uses Meta AI to surface answers pulled from public posts across the platform (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/meta

Meta's new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms | TechCrunch
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-07-15 03:42:41

Public Health Is...
Join us as we speak with experts in public health from a wide variety of backgrounds in this podcast brought to you by the Public Health Association of Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/public

Public Health Is... Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@mela@zusammenkunft.net
2026-08-14 15:18:25

Hooo boy. Wilde story ... Wilde story.
retractionwatch.com/2026/08/11

The anonymized version of the report summary dated January 2025 was published alongside the retraction and concluded that while the authors’ actions did not constitute misconduct, Kaspers and Huibers exhibited “carelessness, ignorance and negligence.” The report also found the article “pays disproportionate attention to the possibility that introduction of corona measures and vaccination might have caused excess mortality, whilst largely ignoring alternative explanations” and “misleadingly and…
Mostert argued governments and media implemented fear and propaganda tactics to reduce “tolerance for reason and dissenting voices” during the pandemic and claimed the investigation into her paper violated academic freedom and constituted censorship.
Also in her testimony, Mostert said she proposed a revision to the published paper that “included a section on vaccine effectiveness in reducing mortality,” but the suggestion was “ignored by the journal.” She also claimed the original section on containment measures and vaccines was “much shorter in the original version of the paper,” but reviewers “asked us to either delete the text or provide more evidence. As there is evidence available, we included it.” The BMJ Public Health retraction not…
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-07-14 03:47:00

Between May 29 and July 9,
roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov
(and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published).
The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided:
about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it,
with fewer than one percent marked as unclear.
The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated.
Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments…

The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2026-06-14 12:03:06

someone explained to me why they had three instagram accounts and i really didn't get it. like, a private one (sure, whatever) but then a... secondary private one (was the first one for friends and the other for family?? you're not even a public figure, what does public mean in this context??)
recently i met someone with 4 instagram accounts (this person was a cis white man who didn't transition or had multiple names or anything) and i just... didn't get it. Like, wh…

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-07-15 07:38:34

was für die Sammlung #OpenIrony:
das Buch "Schnittstelle von Open Access-Publikationen und Exportkontrolle im Kontext des internationalen Wissenstransfers" ist closed access erschienen:

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-08-15 21:01:37

Chicago Public Media and New_ Public partner to launch chicago.com, which will host online communities for Chicago neighborhoods, starting in the fall (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
niemanlab.org/2026/08/can-publ

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-06-15 15:02:00

The Trump administration is executing a controversial plan to allow dirt bikes, ATVs, trucks, snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles
to drive through tens of millions of acres of public lands and national parks,
which environmental groups warn threatens endangered species and the environment.
The plan’s opponents say the impacts will be wide-ranging
and that the vehicles will likely destroy sensitive habitats, harm waterways, drive large predators like grizzly bears …

Critics say Trump’s opening of public lands to off-road vehicles is ‘reckless and nonsensical’
Move is part of broad effort to open public lands to industry and other uses, threatening wildlife and ecosystems

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-15 12:30:52

Gavin Newsom is tempering his pro-tech instincts with economic populism ahead of a likely presidential bid, proposing giving Americans equity in AI companies (Jeremy B. White/Politico)
politico.com/news/2026/07/15/n