Director of @mediawise and faculty @poynter. Sometimes data journalist. bsky.app/profile/alexmahadev…

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I fired up my @CommunityNotes AI writer again. It hasn't made it into the program yet, but I made its activity public for anyone to watch. I'll be adding benchmarking data as I compare how different LLMs do at flagging political misinfo. Check it out here: alexmahadevan.github.io/cn-b…
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It is pretty wild. I am seeing around 17% of notes from the bots going public, compared to like 7% for humans.
The average AI community note writers have a much higher “hit rate” (% of proposed notes that become rated helpful and show on X) than the average human. Now that they’ve proven themselves at a small scale, get ready for more & faster AI notes with this update 🚀
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This community note brought to you by an AI note writer Seeing more and more great AI notes lately
Law enforcement uses ‘reasonable suspicion’ to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position. A person’s immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity. @TriciaOhio
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The Fourth Amendment requires probable cause for arrests; reasonable suspicion suffices only for brief investigatory stops, not full arrests. law.cornell.edu/wex/probable_c… law.cornell.edu/wex/fourth_ame…
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Knowing the history of Bob Ross' likeness, and the shit his business partner put his family through after his death, makes the Bob Ross videos on Sora particularly grotesque and revolting
Bob Ross vibe coding was the AI slop I never knew I needed in my life
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I’ve always said @CommunityNotes is great at flagging AI slop, especially if it’s not political. If Meta’s Community Notes can’t get a stable note attached to this slam dunk post then I’d say the system is an absolute fail.
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✅ Not transparent ✅ Can’t catch AI slop How you gonna copy Birdwatch but without any of the good stuff lol
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My God. There are now TWENTY @CommunityNotes ratings files.
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New: Here's a chart of the top conservative / progressive accounts on X. See that small blue dot at the top? That's @Acyn. His fast-cut clips of political combat get hundreds of millions more views than major news sources - and basically no one knows who he is. So I profiled him.
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We believe that authenticity is the foundation of trust, and we’re committed to maintaining the integrity of our platform by promoting authentic engagement and minimizing the influence of fake, deceptive, or coordinated inauthentic activity. This is why we don’t just address impersonation, platform manipulation, spam, scams, and other forms of misleading behavior; we actively combat them. We use a combination of technology and human oversight to detect and disrupt inauthentic activity, especially when it undermines healthy conversations, misleads users, and attempts to manipulate our systems. help.x.com/rules-and-policie…
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I actually wondered when this would happen after Sora launched and you could see what people were making
SCOOP: OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed.
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Dreams do come true.
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Such a giant baby. LIV Golf incarnate. Could not be happier today.
After Tiger won in 2019, Finau joked that he realized it wasn’t gonna be a chatty day when he asked Tiger how his kids were and got a one-word answer: “good.” My humble opinion is that I think you’re allowed to focus on winning the Masters on Sunday
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9 Apr 2025
A survey of 1,128 US adults: 49% have no interest in using an AI chatbot to get info from news outlets, and 27% believe outlets often use AI to write articles (@alexmahadevan / Poynter) poynter.org/ethics-trust/202… mediagazer.com/250409/p3#a25…
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Nearly half of Americans say they don’t want news from generative artificial intelligence, according to a wide-ranging study from @Poynter and the University of Minnesota on audience AI sentiment. @AlexMahadevan on the major findings: poynter.org/ethics-trust/202…
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hell yeah
19 Mar 2025
@redvik124 Here are some X accounts known for neutral political analysis on world politics: @Natesilver538 (data-driven forecasts), @FiveThirtyEight (empirical insights), @politifact (fact-checking), @CookPolitical (election analysis), @amyewalter (balanced commentary), and @factchecknet (nonpartisan verification). Neutrality may vary by perception, but these focus on facts and data.
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Bring your questions about AI ethics to the 2025 IIJ Freelance Conference, for Poynter’s @AlexMahadevan, Trusting News’ @lwalsh and @BenjaminToff from the Minnesota Journalism Center. Learn more: theiij.com/sessions-25
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I don't use X anymore, but glad to see there's still some good news dropping over here!
27 Jan 2025
📢🥳 The Teen Fact-Checking Network India by BOOM FactCheck and MediaWise is expanding to Bengali and Hindi! 🔗🔗 Spread the word and apply here: linktr.ee/tfcn The fully remote programme for teenagers (13-19 years) begins in February 2025. You will be: - taught verification, fact-checking, media literacy and internet safety - taught to write scripts and make videos - paid per month for 4 months Supported by Google News Initiative #ApplyNow
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