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What a Viral YouTube Video Says About the Future of Journalism

Who is more likely to uphold journalism’s ideals of uncovering inconvenient truths, holding the powerful to account, and writing the first draft of history: a handful of decaying, unwieldy legacy news organizations or a million YouTubers? Nick Shirley, a twenty-three-year-old YouTuber whose investigation into millions of dollars of alleged day-care fraud in Minneapolis has drawn…

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This 22-year-old college dropout makes $700,000 a year from “AI slop” people sleep through

The modern internet is less interested in demanding attention than in simply occupying it.  Adavia Davis understands that better than perhaps anyone else. Since dropping out of Mississippi State University in 2020, the 22-year-old has built a thriving content-creation business out of what has come to be called “slop”— that high-volume, AI-generated background noise that…

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