Mark Little

The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.

"The internet is not improved by treating its users like criminal suspects and our lives as opportunities for corporate profit" www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

It's Time to Rage Against the AI Music Machine If AI music takes over "humans will begin to echo the machines, and there will be a downward spiral into slop."

"It’s certainly a problem for human artists if AI begins to sound more like them. But a potentially bigger problem may be that humans will start to sound more like AI." time.com/7338205/rage...

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

“Every day, another major corporation or elected official or distant family member is choosing to speak to you in this particular voice. This is just what the world sounds like now. This is how everything has chosen to speak.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

Five-byline alert: 🚨

“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Oracle is already underwater on its ‘astonishing’ $300bn OpenAI deal AI’s circular economy may have a reverse Midas at the centre

"Since ... Oracle announced a $300bn deal with the chatbot maker, its stock has shed $315bn in market value" www.ft.com/content/064b...

Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?

“Older generations should instead recognize that the world we have created does not seem to offer a viable path to making change.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

AI Is Supercharging Disinformation Warfare America's defenses aren't ready for AI disinformation warfare.

“Information warfare is now more akin to battle by autonomous drones—hyperpersonalized, relentlessly adaptive, and cheap enough for any actor to use against its adversaries.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

YouTube’s Right-Wing Stars Fuel Boom in Politically Charged Ads YouTube’s MAGA stars aren’t just talking politics—they’re selling it

"American culture has built up the idea of brand choice as a political act" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Mark Zuckerberg’s hate-speech gamble fuels Gen Z radicalization on Instagram as millions watch Hitler speeches and Holocaust denial clips | Fortune The hottest far-right influencer right now isn’t Nick Fuentes—it’s Hitler. And his videos are appearing next to JPMorgan and U.S. Army ads

“Every creator whom Fortune spoke with said their reach had increased sharply after Meta’s January policy shift, which came just a few months after President Donald Trump threatened to imprison Zuckerberg.” fortune.com/2025/11/20/g...

The A.I. Boom Is Driving the Economy. What Happens if It Falters?

“The U.S. economy in 2025 is split in two: Everything tied to artificial intelligence is booming. Just about everything else is not.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...

Exclusive: British newspaper spoke to the wrong de Blasio, not an ‘imposter’ How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.

“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio" www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Social Media’s Changing Narrative of the Israel-Gaza War

“Israel’s public position — a nation forced into a defensive war and making every effort to minimize civilian casualties — is eroded by more documentary evidence each day” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...

Spread by Matt Abrams: OpenAI's new social app is filled with terrifying Sam Altman deepfakes TechCrunch

“Are my piggies enjoying their slop?” joinspread.com/post/5e0c989...

Xi is really good at this stuff.

With Calls for Retribution Over Kirk, Some See Rise of a ‘Woke Right’

“We aim to win, not unite.”

Steve Bannon

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

TikTok content farms pivot to Charlie Kirk hoaxes AI tributes and conspiracy theories about Kirk’s assassination got 32 million views

53 videos with fabricated claims about Kirk reached 31.9 million views over three days indicator.media/p/tiktok-con...

We Are Losing the Information War with Ourselves If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis.

“If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis” open.substack.com/pub/samharri...

Utah governor blames social media for fomenting US political violence Spencer Cox said accused shooter of Charlie Kirk had been a ‘very normal young man’ who was radicalised online

"I believe that social media has played a direct role in every single assassination and assassination attempt that we have seen over the last five, six years" www.ft.com/content/00d8...

Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.

“This is all psychologically damaging to our society in ways we don’t understand" www.wired.com/story/charli...

Remember When Things Were Better in the ’90s? A.I. Does Too.

“Living in a time of fractured attention & fractured politics, is it any wonder people would rather spend time being mildly scolded by A.I.-generated ’80s kids who seem to know what the world is about than to try to make sense of our own chaotic times?” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/s...

As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

We need to make the same thing happen this time.

No, that wasn’t Angela Rayner dancing and rapping: you’ll need to understand AI slopaganda | Marcus Beard The qualms about using AI imagery and deepfakes in politics are breaking down. It will soon just be part of the political language we all use, says digital, disinformation and AI specialist Marcus Bea...

"Similar to the millions of image macros and cat memes created in the mid-2000s, AI slop will soon just be part of the political language we all use. We might not like to see it, but, right now, that’s exactly why it goes viral." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...

"We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life"

Not a business plan but a horror movie

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

‘Touching grass’, Gen-Z's fight back against big tech Tech entrepreneur and journalist, Mark Little, discusses the challenges Gen-Z are facing and – importantly – the resilience they are showing and what the rest of us can learn from them.

If you want a glimpse of a future where humanity has a more intentional and resilient relationship with technology then pay attention to the digital natives www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Sounds like something Storyful would be interested in but not involved with the company so couldn't be sure

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed.

RFK Jr.’s Senate ravings prove he won’t bring sanity back to public health Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won’t be restoring sanity to our public-health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is.

“Kennedy came off as a paranoid kook connecting red strings on a whiteboard.”

When you’ve lost the New York Post editorial board … ??!!! nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

“This is massive. This will cause generative A.I. companies to sit up and take notice.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

A telling indication of the limitations of the current crop of GenAI systems right here www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...