Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

"A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI."

BBC says ‘irreversible’ trends mean it will not survive without major overhaul

The BBC is dying. It needs to be preserved - but doing so will require a radical reinvention.

The Safety Levers

"A framework to move your subculture from the Anxiety Zone to the Learning Zone" - and provide a way for everyone on your team to contribute and experiment safely.

Can we build the dog?

What resource-constrained teams need to ask before writing a line of code

Good vibes, bad vendors

AI coding works now. Here's how to think about it.

Notable links: February 20, 2026

Why aren't newsrooms sharing and innovating? And more.

Stop calling optimization "innovation."

"The problem is, if you’re optimizing a product that fundamentally isn’t working for how people get news in 2026, all you’re really doing is riding that buggy off of a cliff with style."

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm

"Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes." This study shows that some do - to significant effect.

In Graphic Detail: Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks

In a world where traffic is decreasing, publishers are moving more heavily into subscriptions - with very good results.

An increasingly dangerous world

My underlying model for everything that's happening

Building trust in the open

How Protocols for Publishers points to the future of journalism – and the web

Growing the open social web

A position statement for FediForum's unworkshop