With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”

Looking for prolific Wikipedians and Wikipedia experts for an article on @indicator.media next week. Any recs?

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.

The AI slop-ographies of Zohran Mamdani have really been struggling with their cover photos

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?

Incredibly classy move from a WIRED reporter who’s just been fired (for what seems like protected union activity) – 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.

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 “too much good revenue flushed out”. So they make it OUR problem. #Regulation

Hey New Yorkers! Make sure you get your ideas in for the participatory budgeting cycle. rnd.council.nyc.gov/ideamap/map/

I’m not big into Fall-themed events but a pumpkin regatta?? Sign me up www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/s...

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.

“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.” Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

A Community Note spotted in the wild on Instagram on main, first time I’ve seen it outside the dedicated interface (h/t my awesome student Ali)

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.

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.

Awkward neighbors based on last night’s results: UES (Cuomo 62/Mamdani 33) and East Harlem (Mamdani 60/Cuomo 36)

Looks like Mamdani is on track to win FiDi

lol Bushwick

yeah I've seen enough quick read is that Zohran should end up a little over 50%

With only a minority of votes counted, @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social has called the NYC mayoral election for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

2 MILLION VOTES: NYC! All before 9 p.m. More of our election coverage can be found here at thecity.nyc

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

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.

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...

"Sources say that President Donald Trump has greenlit plans to host one of the first UFC fights under Paramount’s $7.7 billion deal with the MMA league on the lawn of the White House." "The discussed date is June 14, 2026 — which coincides with Trump’s 80th birthday."

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 don’t have to rely tonight on the newspaper you are constantly annoyed at!

is that a lot

what's your favorite AI-enabled screw-up this year?

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...

my hot take on Grokipedia

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.

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...

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.

"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.

Where it doesn’t 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

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.

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.

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...

I’m 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.

🔎 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

"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...

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

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

"The victims’ legal representative, Jucka Rajendhra Septeria, revealed that based on the files found on Chiko’s devices, there may be many more victims who have yet to come forward, possibly as many as 30 people."

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...

On X, an AI Community Note contributor (🙃) 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.

Haven’t decided whether to say goodbye yet to my LinkedIn alt where I posted all the AI slop for @indicator.media

the fact that T&S is a relatively nascent field means that when students use AI on assignments it is often *very* clear

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 — an 18-point shift away from Trump since 2023. Time to update your priors www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...