{"slug": "behind-the-blog-being-new-and-some-numbers", "title": "Behind the Blog: Being New and Some Numbers", "summary": "404 Media staff reflected on how a single reporting thread can evolve over time, citing a recent story about a Pennsylvania high school grappling with AI-generated child sexual abuse material. The piece highlighted how those involved are confronting deepfakes for the first time through a traumatic incident. The discussion appeared in the outlet's \"Behind the Blog\" column, which is available to paid subscribers.", "body_md": "*This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss going deeper, Google's search changes, and a rogue zine.*\n\n**SAM: **Something I’ve been thinking about lately is the way a line of reporting or even an entire beat or set of beats can be in conversation with itself over time. I’m thinking of this more in the last week because I published [this story about a high school](https://www.404media.co/radnor-high-school-pennsylvania-ai-deepfakes-child-sexual-abuse-material/) that’s dealing with synthetic imagery harassment—AI generated child sexual abuse material to be specific—and a lot of the people involved in that story are learning about deepfakes for the first time through this very traumatizing, difficult situation.\n\n## This post is for paid members only\n\nBecome a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.\n\n[Subscribe](/membership/)\n\n## Sign up for free access to this post\n\nFree members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week's stories.\n\n[Subscribe](/signup/)\n\nAlready have an account?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/behind-the-blog-being-new-and-some-numbers", "canonical_source": "https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-being-new-and-some-numbers/", "published_at": "2026-05-29 16:06:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 16:12:47.959364+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["404 Media"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/behind-the-blog-being-new-and-some-numbers", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/behind-the-blog-being-new-and-some-numbers.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/behind-the-blog-being-new-and-some-numbers.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/behind-the-blog-being-new-and-some-numbers.jsonld"}}