Alexios Mantzarlis
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Tech, facts, and carbonara. mantzarlis.com
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Today on
@indicator.media
: A first-of-its-kind audit of AI labels on major social platforms.
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Tech platforms promised to label AI content. They're not delivering.
An Indicator audit of hundreds of synthetic images and videos reveals that platforms frequently fail to label AI content
https://indicator.media/p/tech-platforms-fail-to-label-ai-content-c2pa-metadata
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Sahil Kapur
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With a âWOW!,â President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and âroyalties linked to Obamacareâ that originated on a satirical website. That siteâs own About section reads: âEverything on this website is fiction⌠If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.â
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Looking for prolific Wikipedians and Wikipedia experts for an article on
@indicator.media
next week. Any recs?
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derek guy
3 months ago
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
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The AI slop-ographies of Zohran Mamdani have really been struggling with their cover photos
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Hive mind: I'm looking for canonical lists of "news" domains as well as any open-sourced and rigorous lists of domains categorized by type, reliability, etc. Any thoughts?
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James Ball
3 days ago
Incredibly classy move from a WIRED reporter whoâs just been fired (for what seems like protected union activity) â completely commendable way to look out for your colleagues and their work. Feels like the kind of person any newsroom would be lucky to have, tbh.
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Mor Naaman
4 days ago
This from
@craigsilverman.bsky.social
's story nails it. The companies generally do not like spam ads or need the revenue from them. They simply can't fight the spam effectively without adding friction that will result in âtoo much good revenue flushed outâ. So they make it OUR problem.
#Regulation
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Lizzie O'Leary
4 days ago
Hey New Yorkers! Make sure you get your ideas in for the participatory budgeting cycle.
rnd.council.nyc.gov/ideamap/map/
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Idea Map - Submit and Explore Ideas
Submit and explore ideas for the NYC Council Participatory Budgeting process. Engage with community projects and support local improvements.
https://rnd.council.nyc.gov/ideamap/map/
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Iâm not big into Fall-themed events but a pumpkin regatta?? Sign me up
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/s...
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Is That Pumpkin Seaworthy? No Promises.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/style/damariscotta-pumpkinfest-regatta.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⌠disarrayâ
4 days ago
Federal prosecutor, in his rebuttal, is in the tough position of hoping the jury forgets about the hundreds of MAGA folks pardoned by Donald Trump for vicious assaults on law enforcement on Jan. 6 and takes a sandwich case seriously.
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⌠disarrayâ
4 days ago
âThis case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.â Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
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G Elliott Morris
4 days ago
Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
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Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections
Democrats outran their polls and swept statewide races from Georgia to New Jersey, on an agenda of affordability and a broad anti-Trump backlash
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data-driven-takeaways-from
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A Community Note spotted in the wild on Instagram on main, first time Iâve seen it outside the dedicated interface (h/t my awesome student Ali)
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Chris Sommerfeldt
4 days ago
Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
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Velodus đŚđ
5 days ago
A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
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Awkward neighbors based on last nightâs results: UES (Cuomo 62/Mamdani 33) and East Harlem (Mamdani 60/Cuomo 36)
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Looks like Mamdani is on track to win FiDi
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lol Bushwick
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Michael Caley
5 days ago
yeah I've seen enough quick read is that Zohran should end up a little over 50%
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With only a minority of votes counted,
@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social
has called the NYC mayoral election for
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
5 days ago
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THE CITY
5 days ago
2 MILLION VOTES: NYC! All before 9 p.m. More of our election coverage can be found here at
thecity.nyc
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NBC News
5 days ago
BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democratsâ 5-2 majority on the stateâs high court.
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Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground stateâs high court.
https://nbcnews.to/3JsRj13
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Jennie Coughlin
5 days ago
If you want the granular look at how the NYC mayoral candidates perform in neighborhoods across the city, you'll want to watch this precinct-level map, which will update as results start coming in.
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The Most Detailed Map of the New York City Mayoral Election (Gift Article)
See how New Yorkers are voting, precinct by precinct
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y08.Uy2D.uFPE5Dh4G5Gj&smid=url-share
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Decision Desk (
@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social
) has called both the Virginia and the New Jersey gubernatorial races for the Democrats
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
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Parker Molloy
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Matt Novak
5 days ago
"Sources say that President Donald Trump has greenlit plans to host one of the first UFC fights under Paramountâs $7.7 billion deal with the MMA league on the lawn of the White House." "The discussed date is June 14, 2026 â which coincides with Trumpâs 80th birthday."
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Inside David Ellisonâs Dramatic First 100 Days at Paramount: Courting Tom Cruise Blockbusters, Forging Ties With Trump and Daring Anyone Else to Buy Warner Bros. Discovery
David Ellison is the ultimate Hollywood disruptor. This week's Variety cover story goes deep on the Paramount-Skydance boss' industry takeover.
https://variety.com/2025/film/features/david-ellison-hollywood-takeover-paramount-warner-bros-1236569136/
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Miriam Elder
5 days ago
Regular reminder that the best work covering this city is done by local outlets -
@wnyc.org
@thecity.nyc
@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social
@hellgatenyc.com
and others. You donât have to rely tonight on the newspaper you are constantly annoyed at!
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Microsoft earnings suggest $11.5B+ OpenAI quarterly loss
updated: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/microsoft_earnings_q1_26_openai_loss/
5 days ago
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what's your favorite AI-enabled screw-up this year?
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Ben Shultz
5 days ago
Another day, hundreds more ads for
#AI
nudify apps across
#Meta
platforms... Meta loves to talk about "new technology to detect ads for nudify apps" and "strict rules against non-consensual intimate imagery." Funny though, because we at
@americansunlight.org
sure do find these ads often...
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my hot take on Grokipedia
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Today on
@indicator.media
: I speak to the lawyer representing the New Jersey teen suing AI nudifier ClothOff. We spoke about the broad coalition of lawyers fighting to shut down these tools of online abuse, the difficulty of getting their owners served, and the claims his client is pursuing.
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Taking an AI nudifier to court: A conversation with the lawyer suing ClothOff
âThey shouldn't be out there. They shouldn't be operating," said Shane Vogt, the lawyer for a teenage plaintiff
https://indicator.media/p/taking-an-ai-nudifier-to-court-shane-vogt-lawyer-suing-clothoff
6 days ago
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Open Measures
9 days ago
Thanks to
@craigsilverman.bsky.social
and
@mantzarlis.com
for shouting out our latest research on Rumble in their newsletter briefing this morning. Be sure to check out what Craig and Alexios are doing over at Indicator
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
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Briefing: Grokipedia applies a right-wing filter to Wikipedia
Plus: an easy way to search for objects within a video and a new web reconnaissance tool
https://indicator.media/p/grokipedia-applies-a-right-wing-filter-to-wikipedia?utm_source=indicator.media&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=briefing-grokipedia-applies-a-right-wing-filter-to-wikipedia&_bhlid=254ba84aafa25b47511b4cbab4cdb2e7e72ec203
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On YouTube, an AI-generated video of Eminem and Rihanna singing the praises of the president of Burkina Faso, who took over in a coup, has 2.3 million views. It is also being monetized.
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"no one watches / believes AI slop!" 100,000 YouTube users were watching the deepfaked version of Jensen Huang hawk cryptocurrencies. Far fewer were streaming the real deal.
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Fake Nvidia GTC stream hosting deepfake Jensen Huang crypto scam garners 100,000 YouTube viewers, AI-generated hoax generates 5x more views than real event
A terrible time all round
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/fake-nvidia-gtc-stream-hosting-jensen-huang-deepfake-crypto-scam-garners-100-000-youtube-viewers-video-was-even-promoted-above-nvidias-real-event
10 days ago
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Where it doesnât revisit Wikipedia with a Musk-friendly slant, Grokipedia just rips it off entirely. Look at the entry for Bluesky, which literally copied over the file name of the embedded Jack Dorsey post from the original Wiki
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On Grokipedia, criticism of Fox is labeled as hypocrisy from left leaning media. Criticism of ProPublica is labeled as hypocrisy *of* left leaning media. Incredible stuff.
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Grokipedia's entry on Italian PM Giorgia Meloni claims she is not a detached member of the elite because she emphasizes family values. The source is Meloni's bio on the Italian govt's website, which says nothing remotely relevant to this opinionated claim. Unbiased is in the eye of the beholder.
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Grokipedia dedicates an entire section of its entry on the AfD defending the far-right party from accusations of being far-right
grokipedia.com/page/Alterna...
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Aaron Rodericks
11 days ago
Iâm impressed that scammers updated all their logo assets faster than we did as a company after the latest app update. The sheer evolutionary speed of spam/scams these days is insane.
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Facta
13 days ago
đ Negli ultimi due anni le principali aziende tecnologiche hanno promesso di aiutare gli utenti a identificare i contenuti generati con intelligenza artificiale. Un'indagine di
@indicator.media
ha dimostrato però che le cose non sono andate come annunciato
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Le piattaforme tecnologiche non stanno mantenendo la promessa di etichettare i contenuti generati con lâIA | Facta
Una verifica condotta da Indicator su centinaia di immagini e video generati con IA rivela che le piattaforme spesso non etichettano questi contenuti
https://www.facta.news/articoli/piattaforme-social-etichettatura-ai
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"The Times has apologized to Bill de Blasio and removed the article immediately after discovering that our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor." We're going to need a little more than that...
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De Blasio impostor tricks newspaper into running anti-Mamdani quotes
The Times of London apologized and said someone duped its reporter by claiming to be former New York mayor Bill de Blasio and criticizing Zohran Mamdani.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/29/de-blasio-mamdani-times-london/
11 days ago
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I don't think America is ready for the number of pre-teens that will be roaming the streets in KPop Demon Hunters outfits this Friday
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Katie Drummond
12 days ago
In a shocking reality check,
@wired.com
is not, in fact, bankrolled by âdonations from far left organizations.â We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you donât already.
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"The victimsâ legal representative, Jucka Rajendhra Septeria, revealed that based on the files found on Chikoâs devices, there may be many more victims who have yet to come forward, possibly as many as 30 people."
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Indonesian students demand justice after classmates fall victim to deepfake porn
JAKARTA: Hundreds of students from SMAN 11 Semarang High School in Central Java staged a protest on Friday (Oct 24) demanding justice for more than a dozen classmates who were allegedly victimised in ...
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2025/10/25/indonesian-students-demand-justice-after-classmates-fall-victim-to-deepfake-porn#goog_rewarded
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Craig Silverman
13 days ago
We published an investigation from
@kcinbk.bsky.social
into YouTube vids that falsely claim to show police racially profiling and arresting a person that turns out to to be an FBI agent. They've earned over 300 million views. In response, YouTube banned 13 channels:
indicator.media/p/youtube-co...
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Rage-baiting YouTube videos falsely claim to expose police for arresting FBI agents
Indicator identified 55 false or misleading cop comeuppance that generated hundreds of millions of views. In response, YouTube removed 13 channels
https://indicator.media/p/youtube-cop-comeuppance-videos-claim-to-expose-police-for-arresting-fbi-agents
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On X, an AI Community Note contributor (đ) inaccurately claimed that No Kings footage from Boston was from a previous march. Despite failing to reach consensus (to the system's credit), the screenshotted note was used to accuse MSNBC of lying. Senator Cruz also posted - then deleted - this claim.
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AI-Generated Fact Check on X is Wrong: MSNBCâs âNo Kingsâ Footage is Legit
Conservatives, including Sen. Ted Cruz, relied on AI hallucination to accuse MSNBC of airing outdated video to inflate size of anti-Trump protests. NewsGuard debunks it as our False Claim of the Week
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/ai-generated-fact-check-on-x-is-wrong
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Havenât decided whether to say goodbye yet to my LinkedIn alt where I posted all the AI slop for
@indicator.media
16 days ago
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the fact that T&S is a relatively nascent field means that when students use AI on assignments it is often *very* clear
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G Elliott Morris
17 days ago
New polls from Gallup, YouGov, and out of Virginia show voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy. Nationally, Dems now have a 4-point margin on the issue â an 18-point shift away from Trump since 2023. Time to update your priors
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...
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Polls show voters now trust Democrats more to handle the economy
The issue that sank Democrats in 2024 now threatens to do the same to Republicans in 2025 and the 2026 midterms
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show-voters-trust-democrats
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