I am a recovering fact-checker and tech worker. I care about online information quality as a fundamental prerequisite for healthy societies.
Plus: tools for tracking sketchy ships, viewing JSON files, and more
Oct 10, 2025
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9 min read
A new working paper looks at the durability of Community Notes
Oct 9, 2025
Plus: changes to Facebook search that you need to know about
Oct 3, 2025
12 min read
We’ve collected in one place how and when major platforms label AI content
Oct 2, 2025
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Plus: Spotify rolls out anti-slop measures, and inside Russia's copycat "fact-checking" group
Sep 26, 2025
Inception Point AI wants to commodify audio AI slop with “How to Earlobe Kiss” and 4,748 other shows
Sep 24, 2025
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Plus: Tools for archiving YouTube videos, identifying manhole covers, and scanning scam infrastructure
Sep 19, 2025
AI tributes and conspiracy theories about Kirk’s assassination got 32 million views
Sep 15, 2025
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Plus: A tool for YouTube and Joe Rogan doubles down after falling for an AI-generated image
Sep 12, 2025
13 min read
The company is making it easy for the advertisers to conceal their identity
Sep 10, 2025
Plus: chatbots are providing inaccurate info, are susceptible to flattery and peer pressure
Sep 5, 2025
LinkedIn deleted 27 pages with almost 6 million followers
Sep 4, 2025
Plus: The game that helps inoculate people against vaccine misinformation
Aug 29, 2025
I tested seven of them. One came out on top.
Aug 28, 2025
Plus: Why a fact checking outlet ditched labels like "false" and "satire" in favor of a new approach
Aug 22, 2025
Brazil’s ‘TikTok Dark’ targets the Global North with geoshifted clickbait accounts
Aug 19, 2025
Plus: a US academic explains why he's done with researching misinformation
Aug 15, 2025
The platform’s Spanish-language misinformation problem led me to a Brazilian marketplace for monetized TikTok accounts
Aug 13, 2025
Plus: AI-generated Jorge Ramos is spreading false claims about Donald Trump's health on TikTok
Aug 8, 2025
Most of them were useless
Aug 6, 2025
Plus: humans suck at spotting AI-generated images
Aug 1, 2025
A Q&A with Glenn Kessler about his 14-year run fact-checking for the WaPo
Jul 29, 2025
Plus: AI is ushering in a global fraud crisis and new research about YouTube and ChatGPT
Jul 25, 2025
10 min read
Plus: how therapy chatbots fuel delusions, and X tries to explain Grok's Nazi turn
Jul 18, 2025
7 min read
Slop is everywhere, but not all of it is the same
Jul 16, 2025
