Alex Mahadevan
Director, MediaWise at Poynter Online
Director of @mediawise and faculty @poynter. Sometimes data journalist. https://t.co/K68NSp4hvT
Articles
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1 month ago |
poynter.org | Alex Mahadevan
The typical online experience is not particularly pleasant nowadays. Artificial intelligence slop — from Shrimp Jesus to dogs with Coke cans for feet — is flooding our feeds, along with deepfake scams featuring our favorite celebrities, dehumanizing falsehoods about immigrants and spam of all stripes. Fact-checkers have been demonized, academics studying misinformation are intimidated and defunded and journalists have been crowded out by “new media” in the White House press pool.
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2 months ago |
poynter.org | Alex Mahadevan
TikTok is the latest social media platform to roll out a crowdsourced fact-checking experiment. Its version is called Footnotes. The social platform says the new feature won’t replace the partnerships with more than 20 fact-checkers that currently debunk misinformation on TikTok. Users in the U.S., over the age of 18, who have used the platform with no recent violations of community guidelines, can apply to contribute to Footnotes starting today.
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2 months ago |
editorandpublisher.com | Alex Mahadevan
Posted Wednesday, April 9, 2025 9:05 am The San Francisco Chronicle. The Texas Tribune. Time magazine. The Washington Post.
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2 months ago |
poynter.org | Alex Mahadevan
The San Francisco Chronicle. The Texas Tribune. Time magazine. The Washington Post. Dozens of America’s most well-known newsrooms are experimenting with chatbots to help readers pick restaurants, learn more about political candidates and dive deeper into articles. But new research from Poynter and the University of Minnesota shows people may not be ready for it.
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2 months ago |
news.abplive.com | Ilma Hasan |Alex Mahadevan
Over the last one week, users in India have been using Grok, xAI’s chatbot, to ask fiery questions and fact-check information related to news events, history, politics, and war. The chatbot seems to be using expletives, regional languages, and candour that commensurates with the manner in which the question has been phrased by a user. These answers have even drawn the attention of the government, who have reportedly gotten “in touch” with the platform.
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My God. There are now TWENTY @CommunityNotes ratings files. https://t.co/LQAYycEFtB
Someone is melting down about not being able to post harmful health misinformation and blaming @CommunityNotes. Seemingly unaware that when multiple people Google sources to debunk misinformation — they'll GET THE SAME SOURCES. CN for the win here. https://t.co/oxp6ynK1Oa
The one-and-only @KatieLSanders highlights the Pope's views on media literacy, misinformation — and how he became the target of consequential falsehoods. Including the "Pope in a puffer" GenAI image, which ushered in the era of AI slop in which we live. https://t.co/6a2fqdRDCl
