What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier

How the NYT Missed the Story of the Holocaust While It Was Happening

What did The New York Times report about the Holocaust and how did its coverage affect America’s response to the Nazi genocide?Throughout World War II, the American media published and broadcast timely, detailed, and accurate accounts of what was happening to the Jews in Europe. The New York Times alone printed nearly 1,200 articles about what we have now come to call the Holocaust, about one every other day. The articles in the Times and elsewh

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Research, Attention, and Manipulation

Questionable articles can quietly move into Wikipedia and news outlets without notice.

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An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned

The incident is yet another example of volunteer Wikipedia editors fighting to keep the world’s largest repository of human knowledge free of AI-generated slop.

The future of news is happening where no one is looking

"In 2026, more news organizations will understand that people don’t always want an article. Sometimes they just want clarity."

Not a new Weimar, or new 1930s: “We live in a period without a real precedent”. Interview with Anton Jäger

Upon the release of his new book Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences, September sat down with historian of political thought Anton Jäger to discuss the rise of the new right, the dynamics of politicization in contemporary Western societies, and what the current historical moment demands from the left.

You couldn't create a more anti-news internet if you tried

What behavioral economics can add to the story of news decline.

The Myth of Allied Technological Inferiority

World War II, The Free Press, and the Problematic Use of History in Contemporary Media

What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker

Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

Erasmusprijswinnaars - Praemium Erasmianum Foundation

It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and the prospect of a nuclear war closer than it has ever been, I couldn’t bring myself to […]

Building resilient social media

Next week I’ll be in Berlin, speaking at a Franco-German “Summit on European Digital Sovereignty” satellite event to help launch…

Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'. | Tuta

The coalition contract of the newly elected German government contains right to encryption.

Homepage - J-Source

The past two years have seen a record number of media workers killed Continue Reading If killing journalists is a war crime, why isn’t anyone stopping it?

Is the article dead?

Personalization is coming to journalism. The question is: who controls it?