Mia Sato

Pew Research Center released a report on news influencers who people are increasingly getting their information from.

The report couldn’t have come at a better time, following an election where the role of influencers and podcasters was especially notable. Of today’s news influencers:

- 77 percent have no background with news orgs

- 65 percent are men

- More identify as Republican or conservative than Democratic or liberal

- Far more have a presence on X than on any other platform

Amazon announced a $20-and-under “Haul” section yesterday to compete with platforms like Temu — and it’s already filled with questionable listings.

ModernRetail rounded up a few, and scrolling through Amazon, it’s not totally clear to me whether images are AI-generated or just very poorly edited (probably both). You have to hand it to Amazon, though: it does look exactly like Temu.

The company announced today it’s opening up its AI ads tool to all advertisers — so prepare to see more AI content on your feed.

TikTok’s Symphony Creative Studio lets advertisers remix content and generate new videos promoting products in just a few minutes. Some of those ads even include AI avatars resembling humans.

Beloved MSNBC reporter and political analyst Steve Kornacki is so popular that the network has a live feed all night called the Kornacki Cam — and Vulture is keeping track of his every move. So far I’ve watched him shuffle papers, take a sip from his mug, bite his pen, and do stuff on his huge touchscreen.