AI search traffic is shifting value from publishers to answer engines: clicks fall when Google summaries appear, crawler uses blur together, and payment systems remain unproven. The open web needs a bargain built on consent, links, and compensation.
Ethics & Accountability Media & Press CriticismWhen Alexa Demie appeared at the Euphoria Season 3 premiere with minimal makeup, the look drew fashion coverage and online debate. The reaction revealed something troubling: personal aesthetic choices can become tradeable commodities, parsed by audiences who feel ownership over celebrity images.
Media & Press Criticism OpinionMore than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access to their journalism. As corporate chains optimize for AI licensing leverage, independent journalists are building decentralized infrastructure to preserve their work.
Media & Press Criticism OpinionThe $24 billion influencer economy runs on a paradox: we demand authenticity while knowing it's manufactured. Goffman's 1959 dramaturgy theory predicted exactly this, just not the ring lights.
Media & Press Criticism OpinionPlatforms say their research shows social media helps teens. Independent studies find small but real effects. Internal documents reveal companies knew more than they admitted. Neither the panic nor the dismissal is warranted.
Media & Press Criticism OpinionCopium arguments transform having no evidence into a winning strategy. From the explain everything gambit to burden of proof reversal, here is how they work.
Media & Press Criticism OpinionThe conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron is secretly a man is absurd. But it has buried the real question: what do we call it when a 39-year-old teacher begins a relationship with her 15-year-old student?
Media & Press Criticism OpinionThe diamond engagement ring is not a timeless tradition. It is the most successful marketing campaign of the twentieth century, built by a monopoly, enforced by social pressure, and still running.
Media & Press Criticism OpinionThe global ad industry will spend over a trillion dollars in 2026. All of it aimed at bypassing your rational mind. Here is how it works, and what you can do about it.
Opinion Media & Press CriticismWikipedia lists khaki as beige, confuses infant with maternal mortality, and mistranslates basic taxonomy. Hallucinations are not an AI invention.
Artificial Intelligence Media & Press Criticism
