Behind The Blog

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss tenacity in blogging, seeing results from journalism, and open-source platforms.

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Google face-scanning children, accessing the Epstein documents, and a viral Peloton moment.

This week, we discuss the year we've had, technology journalism as a complicated feeling, and some gift ideas for your last minute shopping.

This week, we discuss the media giant that claimed to have technology that can actively listen to consumers through their devices.

This week, we discuss staying connected in remote places, the future of the "content creator," and how a stalker posing as a cop tricked Verizon.

This week, we discuss uncovering government defense contracts, revealing fake "auto-generated" female speakers, and thoughts on FOIA.

This week, we're looking at OpenAI-adjacent Harry Potter fanfic, Disney's AI generated copyright, and questions about Hugging Face's selectively-enforced terms.

This week, we discuss the bin Laden TikTok controversy, how brand safety shapes the internet, and Instagram's enforcement of its own rules (or lack thereof).

This week, we discuss a groundbreaking investigation into Labcorp labor issues, the role of court records in our reporting, how "brand safety" has doomed the news industry, and the demise of a controversial website.

This week, we discuss why FOIA about surveillance is so important, more misinfo around Israel-Palestine, adblockers, and a controversial livestream.

This week, we discuss what a sci-fi movie from 2014 has to say about our AI debate today, what it's like to blog on an iPad, and the importance of freedom of information laws.