3 months ago Google search started to prioritize AI summaries over links, and the impact on journalism could not be more devastating. Truthout's overall readership from Google is down 54% against last year. We lost a huge chunk of our audience overnight that we painstakingly built over decades.

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Critical read by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com. Ellisons know a scary amount about you via Oracle. (Ever wonder, "what's their actual product"? It's YOU / your data!) By taking over mass media, they can give America false fears, causing us to give up even more of our data & privacy.

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Founding a worker-owned local news outfit in 2022, we didn't know if we'd last a month. But as @hellgatenyc.com enters our fifth year, we are surviving, and even thriving. Here's our 2026 annual report, detailing our achievements and challenges of the past year. hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-20...

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Huge win for government transparency and accountability! CA Senate Bill 423 was signed into law today, requiring release of 911 calls from ICE detention centers. This critical info will cast light on how ICE is treating people it holds. Congrats to coalition of advocates who made this possible.

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A woman informed the FBI that Donald Trump sexually assaulted and physically attacked her when she was between 13 and 15 years old. The FBI interviewed her four separate times—yet 37 pages of handwritten agents’ notes remain hidden while the DOJ fights their release.

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