Intelligence

Year end

Dec 9, 2025

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30 min read

2025: The year tech embraced fakeness

This year, powerful people, companies, and institutions welcomed digital deception like never before. The rest of us faced the consequences.

Craig Silverman, +1

Reporting

An AI bot is now the top contributor to Community Notes on X

Nov 18, 2025

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8 min read

An AI bot is now the top contributor to Community Notes on X

But synthetic contributors aren’t replacing humans – yet

Alexios Mantzarlis

Tech platforms promised to label AI content. They're not delivering.

Oct 23, 2025

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22 min read

Tech platforms promised to label AI content. They're not delivering.

An Indicator audit of hundreds of synthetic images and videos reveals that platforms frequently fail to label AI content

Alexios Mantzarlis, +1

+11

Oct 2, 2025

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15 min read

The Indicator Guide to AI labels

We’ve collected in one place how and when major platforms label AI content

Alexios Mantzarlis

Fact-checking

I reviewed 100 of TikTok’s “Footnotes” so you don’t have to

Aug 6, 2025

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3 min read

I reviewed 100 of TikTok’s “Footnotes” so you don’t have to

Most of them were useless

Alexios Mantzarlis

Content moderation

Jun 17, 2025

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3 min read

A first look at Meta’s Community Notes

Zuckerberg's pivot to crowdsourcing features three jacked dudes, a flirty farmer, and some useful notes

Alexios Mantzarlis

Reporting

Will the EU's disinformation rules matter?

Feb 19, 2025

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19 min read

Will the EU's disinformation rules matter?

The EU's code of conduct on disinformation is integrated into the Digital Services Act. Plus: Community Notes users ❤️ fact-checkers

Alexios Mantzarlis

AI slop

Deepfake labels and detectors still don't work

Jan 22, 2025

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13 min read

Deepfake labels and detectors still don't work

Catholic page uses Google to spread unlabeled AI slop on Meta, Deepfake image detectors flop basic test, and Kent Walker thinks crowd-checking on YouTube shows potential

Alexios Mantzarlis