Food Insecurity Resources, Open Science Network, Google, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, November 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES
Via MottG on Mastodon: Lemontree. From the About US page: “There are more food pantries in the US than McDonalds. Yet, no one has accurate information on their location and hours. We’re building the most comprehensive dataset on food resources, backed by up-to-the-minute data & real user feedback.”
Spotted on Bluesky: Open Science Network. “Federate with Mastodon and Bluesky and integrate your social graph with scholarly data. Transform any conversation into citable FAIR data with persistent identifie…
Food Insecurity Resources, Open Science Network, Google, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, November 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES
Via MottG on Mastodon: Lemontree. From the About US page: “There are more food pantries in the US than McDonalds. Yet, no one has accurate information on their location and hours. We’re building the most comprehensive dataset on food resources, backed by up-to-the-minute data & real user feedback.”
Spotted on Bluesky: Open Science Network. “Federate with Mastodon and Bluesky and integrate your social graph with scholarly data. Transform any conversation into citable FAIR data with persistent identifiers. The future of scholarly communication is open, community-owned and interconnected.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Land: Google to remove more search features including practice problems, nutrition facts, nearby offers and more. “Google will be removing more search features in the coming months, but it has not disclosed the full list of which features. It appears that Google will do away with some of the currently supported structured data types used for rich results in Google Search, plus some search features.”
WordPress: Let’s Grow Together: Introducing Recommended Blogs . “When you find a blog you genuinely enjoy, you can add it to your personal recommendations list. Your subscribers and readers can then see these recommendations when they visit your profile in the Reader or hover over your gravatar anywhere in the Reader.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
The Guardian: EU plans hub to tackle disinformation threat from Russia and others. “The European Commission intends for the centre to bring together expertise across the EU and from countries seeking to join the bloc to fight foreign information manipulation and interference.”
Business Insider: Military influencers are going viral, and the Pentagon’s social media rules aren’t keeping up. “Some share lighthearted or mundane glimpses of daily military life; others push boundaries with sexualized or irreverent posts. Across the ranks, Pentagon policies on social media are vague and unevenly enforced, leaving troops eager to grow their followings but wary of the consequences, according to interviews with six military influencers and five public affairs officers.”
Euronews: Shein removes shirt listing after using possible AI image of Luigi Mangione. “Shoppers were surprised when they clicked on the product page for ‘Men’s New Spring/Summer Short Sleeve Blue Ditsy Floral White Shirt’, a breezy button-up, and found a smiling Luigi Mangione as the shirt’s model. Given that Mangione is currently incarcerated in Brooklyn as he awaits trial, it’s likely that the image was either edited or generated by artificial intelligence (AI).”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Mashable: Common Crawl accused of feeding paywalled content to AI companies. “In a detailed investigation for The Atlantic, reporter Alex Reisner reveals that several major AI companies have quietly partnered with the Common Crawl Foundation — a nonprofit that scrapes the web to build a massive public archive of the internet for research purposes.”
Reuters: Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show. “Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’” In 2016 I reached the conclusion that Facebook would never give a damn about scam ads.
Ars Technica: Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google analytics tool. “For months, extremely personal and sensitive ChatGPT conversations have been leaking into an unexpected destination: Google Search Console (GSC), a tool that developers typically use to monitor search traffic, not lurk private chats.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
NiemanLab: Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests. “While these predictions suggest that the journalistic community’s enthusiasm for social media platforms has waned over time, there has been no such change in the perceptions of the people actually using these platforms — the audience.”
NBC News: AI’s capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study. “According to the study, a significant number of top-tier benchmarks fail to define what exactly they aim to test, concerningly reuse data and testing methods from pre-existing benchmarks, and seldom use reliable statistical methods to compare results between models.” Good morning, Internet…
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