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> A spokesperson for the mayor, Dora Pekec, confirmed in a text message that the new administration plans to take down the chatbot. She said a member of the Mamdani transition team had seen reporting on the bot from The Markup and THE CITY and presented it to the mayor as a possible place to save funds.

Journalism works.

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Journalism teed up an easy way for an incoming politician to dunk on his predecessor, if you'll forgive the mixed metaphor. Not that I'm opposed to any part of it, just that this was an easy scenario for "journalism" to "work" in.

If you'd like other examples, 404media and adjacent journalism grinding against Flock across the country, as well as perfectunion working against datacenter siting. I admit the egregious nature of the Adams NYC administration and his fraud makes this particular scenario straightforward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_Eric_A...

Yes the Flock coverage is a very good example.

It does. And it works best if you elect politicians who are willing to listen.

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