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Surviving AI Slop

AI is flood­ing tus with cor­por­ate AI slop. Alas, PR’s com­pet­it­ive edge shifts to unmis­tak­ably human sig­nals — voice, judge­ment, taste, and real relationships.

The Margaux Blanchard Incident

Explore the chilling implic­a­tions of the Margaux Blanchard incid­ent for the future of pub­lic rela­tions pro­fes­sion­als in this industry-spe­cif­ic analysis.

Self-Expression Over Quality

Self-expres­sion trumps qual­ity in the age of AI: why human per­spect­ive — not tech­nic­al per­fec­tion — now gives pho­tos mean­ing and cre­ates genu­ine connection.

The Content Attention Pyramid (CAP)

What can we learn from the con­tent atten­tion pyr­am­id?. There’s no “stand­ing still” in social media pub­lish­ing. If you stand still and neg­lect the need…

How To Succeed in Social Media as a Business

How do you suc­ceed in social media as a busi­ness? The answer is prob­ably not what most organ­isa­tions think. Most organ­isa­tions think that social media…

The Firehose of Falsehood Propaganda Model

The fire­hose of false­hood pro­pa­ganda mod­el is not only a com­mu­nic­a­tions tac­tic; it is an engin­eered col­lapse of shared real­ity, executed at scale and speed. 

From Lügenpresse to Fake News

‘Fake news’ accus­a­tions can be traced back to Lügenpresse, trans­lated from German as “lying press.” Both terms are used to dis­cred­it incon­veni­ent media outlets.

The Age of Epistemic Solipsism

Epistemic sol­ipsism explores how online algorithms and echo cham­bers fosters a cul­ture where indi­vidu­als treat their per­son­al beliefs as self-evid­ent truths.

Digital Sharecropping

Digital share­crop­ping is the phe­nomen­on where con­tent cre­at­ors or organ­isa­tions cre­ate con­tent on plat­forms they do not own and have little con­trol over.