Alex Mahadevan
Director of MediaWise and faculty doing AI, media literacy and OSINT stuff @poynterinstitute.bsky.social | alexmahadevan.com
- Chapo Trap House Featuring @mikeisaac.bsky.social Talking about AI podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
- Long story why I was Googling this, but it's still remarkable how generative AI has invaded top image results
- Remember, before you threaten to shoot two colleagues and yourself over a word limit
- 🚨 New from Me: By the nature of our work, newsroom can be highly charged, emotional spaces. Don't let a bad moment ruin a relationship with your coworkers. Take a pause, take a breath, go for a walk. More tips in the link --> www.poynter.org/business-wor...
- Great event on the future of facts at @poynterinstitute.bsky.social last night. Totally worth the 5 a.m. flight to make it to the @hackshackers.com AIxJournalism Summit today!!
- Buy this book immediately
- Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...
- Probably should not have read the new Jia Tolentino piece before speaking at this, but I promise the vibes will be immaculate
- If you're in the St. Pete / Tampa area, hope to see you tonight for this talk with Katie Sanders and @alexmahadevan.com about Shrimp Jesus and the bright future for internet non-facts www.poynter.org/event/the-fu...
- I was lucky my older brother gave me an old skateboard and NOFX CD when I was in fifth grade
- X is just 4Chan, and crowdsourced fact-checking there is a monumental failure. Or does it say something about where we're heading that liberals and conservatives cannot find consensus that the Holocaust occurred? This is not the first X Holocaust denial I've seen that had multiple failed Notes.
- Everyone involved in this needs a brain scan stat
- Wow
- ICA, the biggest academic communication science conference, announced that they have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during the current Trump administration. They have delayed their contract with Chicago until May 2029. link.icahdq.org/communities/...
- Last night's Studio was a banger
- Pope Francis was the target of misinformation, and a staunch advocate for truth, fact-checking and media literacy. @politifact.bsky.social's Katie Sanders chronicles the Pope's views on the information ecosystem. www.politifact.com/article/2025...
- Top reply to an official X post about content moderation. Deranged people on that website. Absolutely deranged.
- In response to a query about Robert E. Lee, ChatGPT cites PBS and... old-games.com's article about a 1996 Civil War strategy game.
- The funniest man on planet earth
- I hope your aging parents and family members are ready to get ruthlessly scammed out of their retirement at every turn on the internet. With this and the wind down of the CFPB, online scammers are absolutely shaking with excitement
- My challenge to the platforms doing their “all sides must agree” community notes fact-checking: If your consensus bridging algorithm is so great, why don’t you use it for the newsfeed?
- The one and only John Darnielle coming through with a perfect lesson in digital media literacy: critical ignoring.
- The White House's Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios says we have the power to manipulate time www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
- TikTok has rolled out its own version of Community Notes: Footnotes. Unlike Meta and X, they are keeping professional fact-checkers in the loop: www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...
- Three years ago, someone on Reddit — who's commented on r/MachineLearning and r/bioinformatics — with the same username as DOGE employee Jordan Wick (Jomanw on Github) posted this:
- 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. www.theverge.com/openai/64813...
- Going to be watching this every morning for a while
- Absolute king shit from Rory
- The deranged psycho behind “Plandemic” is now skulking around Texas hawking a fake Measles cure from his buddy
- Literally evergreen post. Jfc
- Every journalist should aspire to the interview skills of Nardwuar
- The thing about spending all day experimenting with AI: I can tell when you are using AI!! It is actually quite obvious!
- It is always fun collaborating with @benjamintoff.bsky.social on audience research. Here is how readers *really* feel about AI in journalism. And other takeaways from @poynterinstitute.bsky.social and @apnews.com Summit on AI, Ethics and Journalism: www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...
- "If you are an oligarch that wants to derail democracy and get even wealthier. What do you want to do? Get rid of the important legitimate press and the important media, and then all you got is a bunch of people on social media, shaping the minds of our voters."
- If you told me a year ago that 1) @bencollins.bsky.social would be CEO of (and savior of) the Onion 2) @poynterinstitute.bsky.social was putting on a SECOND Summit on AI, Ethics and Journalism and 3) Ben would be SPEAKING at it, I would’ve accused you of huffing computer duster.
- Love this: MoMA blocks ChatGPT and Claude!
- Get me to God's country
- reflecting on the glamorous life of a digital editor
- grok is good now
- The current information ecosystem:
- Has anyone written about how tren and dbol’s impact on GenZ has absolutely contributed to the current political climate
- Me all night
- My breathless commentary in this piece was literally breathless. I was walking up a big hill when I called Tom.
