The Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa is working to accelerate business journalism across the African continent because media can change the world. Through education and training, more African journalists are covering business and financial reporting.

The Uncensored Library is a living archive inside @Minecraft that preserves censored journalism. Its newest wing focuses on the US, because free speech threats don’t stop at authoritarian borders. It’s not always about obvious censorship. Sometimes it’s erased data, restricted access, or even silence.

We’ve been quiet for a reason. AJN is stepping out of the “AI journalism” phase and into something far more powerful: real-time prediction markets built directly from real-time news. Our agent listens to the world, detects the story as it breaks, and instantly turns it into an on-chain market you can vote or trade on. This is where information stops being passive and finally becomes action.

🚨 Trump just called a New York Times reporter “treasonous” to her face. The same president who swore an oath to defend the Constitution is now labeling journalism — protected by the First Amendment he took that oath to uphold — as treason. The same word the Constitution reserves for waging war against the United States. Used against a reporter asking questions. “You’re a fake guy… I actually think it’s sort of treasonous what you write.” — to the NYT. CNN got the same treatment: “the worst.” When the powerful start calling questions “treason,” the next step is never good for the country. What happens to a republic when the president brands the free press as enemies of the state?

Aggregation is one of the very things that helped make this platform the number one source for breaking news, entertainment, and public conversation. For years, citizen journalism was encouraged. People shared footage, discoveries, world events, science, wildlife, history, culture, and stories that traditional media either missed or would never have reached such huge audiences. That collective sharing of information is what made this platform powerful. Now suddenly, the same culture of sharing and curating knowledge is being labelled “theft,” despite the fact that millions of users come here precisely because creators bring them things they may otherwise never see. Aggregation, when done responsibly, is not stealing — it’s amplifying, educating, entertaining, and connecting people to the world in ways traditional media often cannot.

Miller provided the journalists with everything they requested and publicly posted the receipts. Yet they deliberately ignored it all. Why let facts get in the way of a good story? Pure tabloid journalism.

Polymarket 🤝 Substack We are excited to announce our exclusive partnership with Substack. Starting today Substack authors can natively integrate data from the world's largest prediction market. Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.

Only 2/3 of all news coverage in Africa is reported by African journalists. The Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa is working to advance business journalism across the continent through education and more. Find out how.