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UK weighs forcing social media firms to boost trusted news

The UK is weighing new rules that would require Meta, TikTok and YouTube to prioritize trusted news content in feeds and search results.

Social media and the algorithm move faster than facts and claims can be verified.
A picture taken on September 12, 2013 in Paris shows a tablet and a smartphone connected on news websites and world newspapers.

Trust in news at all-time low as interest in industry declines, Reuters Institute finds - study

CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss (L) and former '60 Minutes' host Scott Pelley (R).

'She's murdering 60 Minutes': Pelley’s attack on new CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss ends in firing

People walk by The New York Times building in Manhattan, New York City, US, September 16, 2025.

NYT accuses Israel of trying to 'stifle journalism' by taking legal action over op-ed


Myron Rushetzky, the New York Post’s legendary city-desk supervisor, passes away

Generations of future well-known journalists, including the New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, got their start running copy for Myron Rushetzky.

Myron Rushetzky wears a T-shirt with the New York Post's most famous headline at a party for the publication of the 2024 book, Paper of Wreckage, which was dedicated to him.

Iran threatens to execute 45 journalists, over 300 relatives in coordinated media suppresion effort

The Persian-language news network said the campaign is part of a coordinated effort by Iranian authorities to silence dissent and intimidate the press.

A noose is pictured as supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran gather to protest against the death penalty in their home country and for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be declared a "terrorist organisation", in Berlin, Germany, November 14, 2024.

Israel slams int'l media for misrepresenting Gazan child's condition as starvation

The child's older brother is shown standing nearby, looking distressed but relatively healthy. Their mother also does not appear to be suffering from any symptoms of starvation.

A Palestinian youth holds a can of chickpeas from an aid package dropped from an airplane, amid a hunger crisis, in the central Gaza Strip, July 28, 2025; illustrative.

The pre-framing bias of the ‘locked narrative’ - opinion

Locking the narrative is useful in political communication, framing events or policies in a way that favors a particular viewpoint.

 Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021

Between the public and private: Focusing on the news and life in Israel - opinion

While we go about our daily private lives, public life seems to stay largely the same, with no resolution to the conflict.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu sits next to his wife, Sara, at a dinner with US President Donald Trump at the White House last week. There’s no clearer picture today on the hostages than before the visit, says the writer.

Bill proposal to privatize Kan passes ministerial committee

According to the bill, Kan will no longer be allowed to broadcast "news and current events" on television or radio.

 View of the offices of Israel's public broadcaster KAN in Jerusalem. January 31, 2023.

Batsheva Shulman: An explorer of language in the sea of journalism

Behind the Bylines: In the sea of journalism where words and language matter so much, Batsheva Shulman is an explorer, helping track down exactly what to use to make our articles coherent.

 Batsheva Shulman

Conflict & Cuisine: The 'Post' taste tests summer drinks to go with your summer news - WATCH

 The Jerusalem Post’s Erica Schachne and Seth J. Frantzman bring you a special taste-testing extravaganza.

Montana Tucker: Using fame and social media to stand up for the Jewish people

Tucker recently released a documentary on the children impacted by October 7.

 Montana Tucker and Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief Zvika Klein.

Marion Fischel: Always finding her way back home to 'The Jerusalem Post'

Behind the Bylines: Marion Fischel has had a wide range of jobs at the Post, and while she has excelled wherever she went, her path always brought her back to the paper.

 Marion Fischel.