Side note: besides searching news archives and emailing the Governor’s office to verify this story, I tried to corroborate this incident with the inimitable Florida Man expert @craigtimes.bsky.social, whose latest book is “Welcome to Florida: True Tales from America's Most Interesting State”

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

I listened to 202 minutes of those AI-generated podcasts. They were not good. indicator.media/p/this-podca...

Tickets for the USA World Cup are going for a smooth ~$1,500-$2,000 smdh

Launching @indicator.media has led me to ask many important questions. Today, for instance, I emailed the office of the Governor of Florida to ask whether DeSantis has ever been pooped on by an alligator.

@craigtimes.bsky.social hi! former Poynter guy and long-time follower. I have a question about an alleged Florida Man story that I can't corroborate for an article on @indicator.media. Might I send you an email / could you follow me back and I can DM you? thanks!

I regret to inform you that AI slop books are trying to capitalize on KPop Demon Hunters

Delightful Nico #NYCFC

I believe this is the most comprehensive guide available anywhere about how to link websites together in order to uncover ownership, connections, and funding. Check out the Indicator guide to connecting websites together using OSINT tools and methods:

Meta is slowly ramping up its Community Notes feature. Over six months, 70K contributors have published 900 notes on Facebook, Instagram, or Threads. Meanwhile, X, which inspired this program, is struggling to maintain momentum and pivoting to AI. Today on @indicator.media's free weekly briefing:

Hm; are AI community notes starting to kick in over on X?

I watched every Jimmy Kimmel monologue since Charlie Kirk was killed and all I got was this sinking feeling

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

As someone familiar with how savagely hackers can bypass seemingly every smart lock, I personally will not be purchasing for my home a lock that has four ways in.

if anyone is in Meta's Community Notes, can you send me a few screenshots of what it currently looks like? I'm at [email protected]

"We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI" is a hell of a thing to say as a good thing even if it's clearly a troll move to get attention which I have now given to this preposterous start-up.

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

It's so much fun to joke about killing innocent fishermen! But watch what you say about anyone whose life MAGA thinks has value.

lol. I wish, Google Calendar, I wish.

NEW: "I loved him." Bob Woodward remembers Robert Redford www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

The trans partner of Tyler Robinson had no knowledge about it and was told to delete messages but didn't and instead turned them immediately over to the police and cooperated. Yet, the right is demonizing her and blame everything on trans people despite the trans person here doing the right thing.

WOW -- a screaming Patel crashes out in response to Schiff's questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and calls him "the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate" and "an utter coward" and "political buffoon"

Has this happened to anyone else? I've typically been able to create synthetic data for T&S Class / Red Teaming exercises but now Gemini is pushing back

A UN commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and accused senior Israeli officials including Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

public sphere so robust, uninhibited and wide-open that i'm hesitant to even be explicit about the extraordinary levels of ambient chill we are seeing

obviously not the main issue here but that suit fit too, whew. has someone evoked @dieworkwear.bsky.social yet?

Larry Ellison is about to be worth more than Elon Musk again

Do we file this one under free markets or personal liberty?

AI slop merchants aren't just doing fake stories about celebrities making donations for or paying tribute to Charlie Kirk. They are now doing entire fake music videos.

Today on @indicator.media: I found that 53 TikTok videos pushing clickbaity hoaxes about Charlie Kirk's assassination got almost 32 million views in three days. Most were tied to accounts I've previously reported on for AI slop, scams, and Spanish-language misinformation.

“Zohran Mamdani and I will both be fearless in confronting Donald Trump’s extreme agenda — with urgency, conviction, and the defiance that defines New York” writes Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Mouvement du 10 septembre : l’IA générative, nouveau carburant de la colère sociale en ligne www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

A major Italian magazine thought an AI image of bullets with the alleged engravings from the Kirk assassination would be a valuable contribution to their readers. They disclosed AI use in the post, though not on the image itself, which we should expect to get fervently reused out of context.

The latest from TikTok’s AI slop factories

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

One of many issues with Zuckerberg throwing fact-checking under the bus to curry favor with the White House is that a big chunk of the stuff that was being labeled was clickbaity junk, not political speech. It's back with a vengeance.

I know it's not exactly breaking news that some "free speech" warriors are total hypocrites, but I still feel it's important to call it out when it happens.

It's been two days since @benmshultz.com and I flagged more than 4,000 ads for AI nudifiers on Meta and there are already dozens of new ones on the platform -- some for the same exact domains we reported.

anyone recognize any of these people? I suspect they are TikTok creators/podcasters whose likeness is being used to flog a product that they didn't endorse but AI Mode isn't helping me identify either of them

LinkedIn keeps recommending that I add a former skip manager that I cordially despised (the feeling was mutual). I keep telling the algo I'm not interested but without fail every couple of months it's like YOU MAY KNOW THIS PERSON WANNA CONNECT?

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

we need <gestures broadly> everything else to stop being so fucked up so we can talk about the only story that really matters rn pagesix.com/2025/09/11/e...

"Welcome back to 2016," writes @craigsilverman.bsky.social re: the situation for clickbaity hoaxes on Facebook. In today's @indicator.media Briefing (free to all): indicator.media/p/brakes-are...

Christopher Blair, A.K.A. Busta Troll, a man who has made a career out of trolling conservatives on Facebook by tricking them into liking and sharing fake content (that often got picked up and repeated by spam networks, influencers, etc.), just posted this. The brakes are completely off at Meta...

83% agree or strongly agree with labeling AI content on social media Only 4% disagree or strongly disagree

Margaux Blanchard was not alone ... great piece by @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Good to see that Meta has sent cease and desist letters to 46 companies advertising for AI nudifiers on its apps. As per the 5,000 ads it took down... Is that in addition to or a segment of the 14,000+ that @indicator.media has flagged over the past year?