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All signs point to the second Trump administration inciting a similar domino effect, where a filing spree brings longer delays and a corresponding turn to the courts. “One thing that you can be guaranteed, you’re going to see more requests being filed again, just as it was in 2017. There’s just no question,” said Leopold.

I won’t push the disingenuous notion that we all need to accept and empathize with synthetic victim-hoods and bigoted, outrageous rhetoric. However, an understanding must be achieved purely to combat an increasingly reactionary culture.

For many years, the Post has been celebrated as a pillar of courage. Now, it might be writing that exact doomsday script in its cowardly decision to break the paper’s long-standing precedent by failing to endorse a presidential candidate.

“In Venezuela, there are what we call information deserts,” Jonathan Gutierrez, the director of solutions journalism publication Historias Que Laten, told me — cities and regions “where there are no media outlets because they are either censored, shut down, or so closely monitored that what they produce is just content, rather than journalistic information."

These ethical dilemmas extend to the monetization of citizen journalism as well. As platforms like YouTube and Instagram enable users to profit from their content, the line between genuine reporting and content creation for financial gain becomes blurred.

Adam Harder came up with the idea for InPress last year; among other media jobs, he was a broadcast journalist for the U.S. Air Force for several years. He’s currently self-funding the application and has a team of seven part-time staffers, but nobody is being paid.

While the current infrastructure for deepfake detection is being pressure tested in India right now, the reporting strategies being carved out by journalists during the election offer a preview into the challenges that lie ahead for other newsrooms around the world.

Microsoft’s major marketing push in gaming has been Xbox Game Pass: a subscription service that gives users access to a rotating library of hundreds of games. For simplicity’s sake, think Netflix for gaming. One of the biggest appeals of Game Pass is a monthly price lower than the cost of buying a single one of the games on offer.