Inspired by the work of @mantzarlis.com at @indicator.media, I fired up my AI Community Notes bot. I hope it actually flags political misinformation. And I'll be testing lots of LLMs to see which one is best at it. alexmahadevan.com/blog/communi...

Beautiful day to see Gotham FC — Jordyn Dudley’s going places

I am, once again, tragically unrepresented at a World Cup. With Italy and Greece out, whom should I root for? Can't be a previous winner. Preferably a democracy. Currently leaning towards Canada (b/c Alphonso Davies, and also @indicator.media HQ)

I've seen researchers/reporters discount the importance of monitoring alternative platforms over the last few years, but *so many* conspiracy theories and false narratives spawn on those sites. This nonsense about hantavirus went around for three days before MAGA influencers started blasting it on X

This is nuts

The lady opposite me on the train was reading this. To be fair she was only on the first chapter.

This remains so funny to me. Note the “last updated” line.

Hot take but: a plank you stand on should not be able to travel at interstate highway speeds

hm, are those really the two options for children's titles

No no surely this can’t be true there’s an anti-censorship EO I keep hearing about www.engadget.com/2182752/doj-...

Alt hed: Sham organization meant to undermine international institutions and make peace even harder struggles to get donors to honor their commitments

"Surely we can all agree on the basic facts" doesn't always work, and the times it doesn't work are the most important times to get things right. If a platform's requirement for a fact-check is "will both sides find this palatable" rather than "is this true" then the plot is already lost.

I'm a former Community Notes super-user interviewed for this piece. Whether the notes are written by people or language-mimicking algorithms, the central flaw of Twitter's Community Notes is the same as it's always been: it's a "fact-checking" system that doesn't involve the checking of facts.

Today on @indicator.media: A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X. This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.

lol (h/t www.theverge.com/tech/936176/...)

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

I'm working on a 3,000-word-long piece on Community Notes for real sickos only

"It’s alienation on top of alienation. What value am I actually making by throwing this garbage into the world?"

Sam was writing about this stuff in 2017. Always read Sam about this stuff.

Absolutely awesome to see that my guide to using Skills in Chrome helped an investigator with his work! Here's the post: indicator.media/p/the-indica...

I both love and hate these businesses trying to game Google Maps searches with their names (h/t @davidsullivan.bsky.social who first alerted me to this phenomenon)

There has been a LOT of research on misinformation over the last decade. In a new paper (for Annual Review of Psychology), @dgrand.bsky.social and I attempt to distill the key points of consensus, highlight major disagreements, and point to future directions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

CJF Hinton Award Finalist Spotlight: @indicator.media co-founder @mantzarlis.com, with co-founder @craigsilverman.bsky.social, and co-authors Santiago Lakatos and Benjamin Shultz, was shortlisted for three articles from Indicator’s body of reporting on AI nudifiers.

Starting today, tech platforms are required by the US Take It Down Act to remove synthetic non consensual intimate imagery. Here's what their removal workflows look like in practice:

I’m going to miss a whole lot of things about America — its morbid attachment to A/C isn’t one of them

In May's Show & Tell, @craigsilverman.bsky.social and I are joined by Amnesty International's Barbara Marcolini. Barbara spoke about her role as a journalist in a human rights org. and walked us through how she documented the Israeli military's destruction of civilian infrastructure in Lebanon.

Marketers for pine nuts should note that “essential for pesto” is more of a selling point than any of these attributes tbh

any chance anyone here is a riverside pro and can help me figure out why i can't get different layer to work sobs

can anyone recommend a person who can speak to the technical challenges/best practices for structuring/analyzing large data dumps? i'm not sure if i'm looking for an archivist or a librarian or someone else ...?

Hello -- I'm looking for active X Community Notes contributors who want to talk to me for a piece on @indicator.media. Happy to use their pseudonym in the story. Please share with your networks!

As a parent and as an expert of this awful beat, I 100% agree with this: "schools should remove pictures of pupils’ faces from their websites and social media accounts because blackmailers are using them to create sexually explicit images, experts have said."

Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, just reported its 2026 Q1 results. It lost $405 MILLION on $900,000 in revenue.

time to walk away from the computer

"at the heart of the issue is the way Meta has incentivised the creation of hateful AI slop as it chases user engagement and ad revenue"

Lisa did not fold, did not seek a more palatable term than "misinformation", and did not apologize for doing the important work she does. Major respect ✊

"Palantir said its revenue from U.S. commercial customers jumped 133% to $595 million, ​while revenue from U.S. ​government customers rose 84% ⁠to $687 million."

New on @indicator.media: At 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning, I discovered that my partner Mia has a hidden Tinder Platinum account. Except Mia is not actually my partner. She isn’t even a real person. The image I uploaded was created with Google AI. So, it turns out, was the Tinder profile.

> men's personal care products in the 2000s: "- For Men" after the brand name, in a blue container > men's personal care products today: "MANTASTIC MANTACULAR ALPHATRON (WITH ADDED PROTEIN)," vikings all over the packaging

oh boy I have a fun piece for tomorrow

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

My colleague Gretel Kahn has spoken with 4 leading experts about how how AI, memes, trolling and slopaganda are reshaping the public sphere in light of the current conflict A timely piece. Thanks @mantzarlis.com @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/trollin...

NEW on our site How AI is thickening the fog of war With the US and Iran using AI and memes to obstruct conflict coverage, our own Gretel Kahn spoke to @mantzarlis.com @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social Emerson Booking and Sam Dubberley from @hrw.org reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/trollin...

Look, before you mock people for having their database deleted in 9 seconds by Claude, you should know that deleting a database that thoroughly used to take up to 90 minutes.

bewildering stuff, I really hope these women get justice

Big news: The Minnesota legislature passed the nation's first ban on nudification apps, aka the generative AI apps behind the rise of nonconsensual deepfakes. The bill also allows survivors to sue for damages. Now the it heads to Gov. Tim Walz's desk. 19thnews.org/2026/04/minn...

If you wanna scare an Italian friend (who doesn’t live in the US) show them this price tag

Take a moment and read the @indicator.media report. It found 192 TikTok videos for #hoax #isolationchallenges with 54.8 million cumulative views. #factcheck #tiktokchallenge

Today on @indicator.media: Would you be willing to live alone in a remote Norwegian cabin for 90 days in exchange for $8 million? What about forgoing your phone to stay in a tropical overwater villa for $3.7 million?

About 20 years ago, lighting was the single largest use of electricity in American homes. But energy-efficient lightbulbs has shrunk the category to sixth place! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...