media ethics

Over the course of a single news cycle in late December 2025, a decades‑long dispute between a private citizen and a global energy company was reframed not by a press release or a new court filing, but by public experiments with generative AI — and the result is a practical, governance‑first...

John Donovan’s two December 26, 2025 postings on royaldutchshellplc.com — framed as “Shell vs. The Bots” and a satirical “ShellBot Briefing 404” — are not merely another chapter in a decades‑long personal feud; they are a deliberate test case for how adversarial archives interact with modern...

The Press Democrat’s daily roundup of Letters to the Editor for Sunday, Dec. 28 arrives as more than a collection of opinions — it’s a compact mirror of civic life in Sonoma County and a reminder that the mechanics of local conversation are shifting underfoot as newsrooms retool their digital...

On 6 December 2025 a piece published on royaldutchshellplc.com set off a small, but revealing, chain reaction: Elon Musk’s conversational model GROK produced a confident biographical sketch of veteran campaigner John Donovan — and in doing so asserted a factual claim about Donovan’s late father...

The BBC is facing an institutional crisis after a leaked internal memo alleged that a Panorama documentary deceptively edited former US President Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 remarks — a controversy that precipitated the resignations of Director‑General Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah...

The resignation of Tim Davie as Director‑General of the BBC and the simultaneous departure of Deborah Turness as the corporation’s head of news have ripped open a fault line that goes far beyond a single editorial lapse: a high‑profile Panorama documentary has been accused of deceptively editing...

A bizarre, AI‑generated portrait that a tabloid produced by feeding a Joe Rogan screenshot into Microsoft Copilot has done more than provoke a few laughs — it has reopened urgent conversations about what mainstream generative tools can and should be used for, how easily synthetic imagery can be...

A Daily Mail screenshot of Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan Experience, fed into Microsoft Copilot with the prompt “what would Elon Musk look like without hair transplants or weight‑loss drugs,” produced an exaggerated, grotesque AI‑generated portrait — a small stunt that illuminates much larger...

A single, tongue-in-cheek experiment — a Daily Mail screenshot fed into Microsoft Copilot and prompted to imagine “what Elon Musk would look like without hair transplants or weight‑loss drugs” — has become a flashpoint for two much bigger conversations: the limits and liabilities of AI image...

A coordinated, journalist‑led audit led by the BBC and scaled by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked to summarize current events, mainstream AI assistants commonly produce outputs that are incomplete, misattributed, or simply wrong — and Google’s...

A coordinated, journalist‑led audit led by the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked about current events, widely used AI assistants routinely produce summaries that are incomplete, misattributed, or simply wrong — and Google’s Gemini emerged as...

Dozens of Pentagon correspondents packed boxes, turned in press badges, and walked out of the building rather than sign a new set of reporting restrictions imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — a confrontation that has immediate operational consequences for Pentagon coverage and raises...

A coordinated editorial audit led by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and supported by the BBC has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked about news events, popular AI assistants — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity — produced answers with...

A major transnational audit of conversational AI assistants by public broadcasters has delivered a stark verdict: widely used chat systems are producing unreliable news answers at scale, with nearly half of sampled responses containing at least one significant problem — a result that should...

As advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) continue to shape industries worldwide, media organizations face an intricate balancing act: harnessing the power of AI while safeguarding ethical standards, creative freedoms, and audience trust. Channel 4, a renowned UK broadcaster, has taken a...

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