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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 12/06/2026

Tweet —> ad under the tweet

Screenshot of a WIRED post on X dated 6/11/26. The text reads “Activists raised a 40-foot-tall inflatable Elon Musk in Manhattan to draw attention to the risk he allegedly allegedly poses to investors.” The photo shows a large shirtless inflatable figure meant to resemble Elon Musk towering over Times Square, with writing on its stomach referencing SpaceX’s Grok and AI. The article headline reads “Massive Effigy of Elon Musk Raised Over Times Square to Pro…”

Screenshot of a Grok ad on X (formerly Twitter). The ad shows a very very young woman with blonde hair and dark sunglasses sitting in stadium seats, wearing a white crop top with a Nike swoosh and a beige skirt. Text overlay reads “Turn your photos.” The ad copy says “From deep questions to stunning visuals – Grok does it all.” An Install

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 20/05/2026

Interesting things happening over on X. A community note bot leaves an AI-written fact-check on AI slop from the DOL

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 17/05/2026

Sam Altman is smoking crack if he thinks we’re gonna make $0.17 per click from agents. I think a vast majority of TollBit customers make NOTHING

Sam Altman in front of a podcast mic saying “my agent can read it”

Sam Altman in front of a podcast mic saying “pay $0.17”

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 10/03/2026

This was fun as hell last year www.poynter.org/commentary/a...

My degenerate friend puts caviar on a taco under purple lights

Stacks of the Onion in print next to a sticker that says kick Elon out of Austin

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 14/02/2026

Literally the only reason to be on X

Screenshot of a Twitter/X post from verified user Keith (@keithdunn) posted at 6:00 AM on Feb 14, 2026, reading: ‘After a brief memorial, Iaz lit the cigarette at 6:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100’ The post has 38.8K views.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 05/02/2026

the only molt book I care about

A detailed black-and-white ink illustration of the opening scene from Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. The protagonist, Gregor Samsa, has been transformed into a "monstrous vermin" and lies helplessly on his back in a cramped, attic-like bedroom.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 27/01/2026

It still absolutely boggles the mind why any company would advertise on X, where there's a good chance your ad for a high protein menu is right under an AI video of Charlie Kirk arguing with Jeffrey Epstein

An X post featuring an AI-genereated Jeffrey Epstein calling Charlie Kirk a lab experiment sits right above a Chipotle ad for its "double high protein bowl"

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 20/12/2025

Doing an analysis of Community Notes evidence links. New favorite domain

Spreadsheet with three links, one of which says "fuck.you"

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 17/12/2025

Y'all left out the funniest part. The wife of the sexy anime art husband is A MORMON

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 02/12/2025

How the Washington Post describes Zero Units vs. @propublica.org’s actual investigation.

Mobile screenshot of a news article with the headline, ‘After service in CIA-trained unit, alleged National Guard shooter struggled to adapt in U.S.’ The subhead describes Rahmanullah Lakanwal as an elite ‘counterterrorism fighter’ in Afghanistan working alongside U.S. forces; the phrase ‘counterterrorism fighter’ is highlighted with blue text-selection handles.

Mobile screenshot of a ProPublica article on a dark background. A paragraph of white text describes an Afghan woman, Mahzala, watching masked gunmen question her adult sons, pin them against a courtyard wall, then shoot them in the head one by one, including the youngest who is shot again after surviving the first bullet.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 21/11/2025

Well, Google's whole Gemini SynthID AI detector is certainly not working. AND a hallucinated interview!

Here is a descriptive alt text for the image:

"A screenshot of an AI chat interface on a dark background. At the top right is a photo of Canadian interviewer Nardwuar the Human Serviette, wearing a plaid suit and hat, holding a vinyl record next to Taylor Swift, who is wearing a floral dress and cardigan and laughing with her hand over her mouth. Below the photo is a user bubble reading '@synthid'.

The AI response below is titled 'Analysis' with a blue sparkle icon. The text reads: 'I was unable to detect a SynthID watermark in the image. The photo features the Canadian interviewer Nardwuar the Human Serviette (in the plaid suit) and pop star Taylor Swift. The image is a promotional photo or still from their famous interview, which took place in 2013 during the time of her Red album era.' Several interaction icons (thumbs up, thumbs down, copy) are visible at the bottom."

Which is false, for the record.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 18/11/2025

Yoooo @murderxbryan.bsky.social, Ryan Lizza hit Olivia Nuzzi with a Guys classic

An excerpt from a Ryan Lizza post about Olivia Nuzzi: I can still picture the hotel paper and reporting notepads spilling into the walk-in closet, where a year earlier I had spent an afternoon on my knees carefully arranging scores of her boots, high heels, sneakers, and slippers on an enormous shoe rack.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 28/10/2025

Nick Fuentes, according to Wikipedia (left) and “Grokipedia” (right) Really twisting itself in knots to not call a nazi a nazi

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 09/10/2025

If anything signals that we are truly watching the U.S. crumbling in real time, it’s an AI video of MLK promoting crypto on a fully AI slop platform. Fake, dying empire

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 09/10/2025

The Free Press paying to promote the dumbest hot takes imaginable on Reddit lol

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 01/10/2025

What’s Sora 2 like, you ask? Well, got to see SpongeBob as Hitler

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 21/09/2025

props to @usatoday.com's new chatbot for entertaining my query about god punishing dabo swinney

Screenshot of a USA TODAY chatbot response to the question 'Is God punishing Dabo Swinney?' The AI-generated answer explains that divine punishment isn't supported by evidence but acknowledges Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is facing real challenges, including scrutiny after a loss to Syracuse and questions about his leadership due to the team's poor performance against strong competition.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 19/09/2025

“One of these days I’m going to follow through on the Clav threat.” Thank you @themountaingoats.bsky.social for a joyful respite from this hell we’re living in.

The Mountain Goats John Darnielle, bathed in blue light, at his Korg, threatens to play the next song on clavinova

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 16/08/2025

Just realized I am 1/1 on Meta's Community Notes

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 09/08/2025

Finally buying @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI, and someone's selling an AI-generated rip-off of it. Amazon is so cooked

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 01/08/2025

Was looking for a local news story based on a convo I had with a park ranger in WNC and came across the strangest phrase I’ve ever read. Competing with real local news!!

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 14/07/2025

It is a very scary time to be a brown guy in America

A tweet from the official Homeland Security (@DHSgov) account reads: “Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land – Morgan Weistling.” Below the text is a painting titled New Life in a New Land by Morgan Weistling. The painting shows a white pioneer family inside a covered wagon. A woman in a blue dress cradles a baby while a man in a wide-brimmed hat gently supports them both. Outside, a prairie landscape stretches toward distant mountains with a wagon and a lone figure in the background. The scene is warmly lit and idealized in a 19th-century settler style. The tweet was posted at 5:42 PM on July 14, 2025, and has 409K views.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 10/07/2025

I kinda sorta got the dril “racism dial” tweet into @politifact.bsky.social 😎 www.politifact.com/article/2025...

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 09/07/2025

Linda Yaccarino cites Community Notes among two "groundbreaking innovations" X undertook on her watch. The only problem: It was up and running well before she or Elon Musk took over.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 08/07/2025

My new issue: The @politifact.bsky.social bot I built is so desperate to fact-check tweets using PolitiFact links that it's started making them up!

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 07/07/2025

First big issue as I have my Community Notes bot up and running. The bot — powered by Grok — uses a pink slime news site to spread misinformation about a rescue in Kerrville, Texas.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 05/07/2025

This is the nut graf. Healy’s explanation does not at all match the angle of the story. As the director of a media and news literacy organization these types of blunders make my job fundamentally more difficult.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 01/07/2025

Hm, I wonder why they're doing this? (I know this looks like dogshit)

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 30/06/2025

lol AI slop strikes again. This time a fake new unicorns album

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 14/06/2025

The absolute softest guys on the planet think they are the new paradigm of masculinity lmao

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 13/06/2025

OK, popped over to the Meta AI feed again and... what is happening

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 13/06/2025

Much like the old days of scrolling the Midjourney discord, a fascinating look at the human psyche

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 04/06/2025

Yes, this is a media literacy issue!

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 03/06/2025

Meta's Community Notes is so, so bad. This AI slop is an absolute layup, and the system can't get it, or any similar ones, tagged with a crowdsourced fact-check. Meta's system is not transparent, and can't even catch AI. The two positive things about X's Community Notes.

A Facebook post from "The Marvel & DC Multiverse" featuring a collage of four images showing sunburned individuals with exaggeratedly red, shiny skin on a beach. The caption claims it's a "Sunburn Competition in New Orleans." The images appear unnatural, and the post has thousands of reactions, comments, and shares.

A screenshot from Meta's Community Notes feature, showing the same Facebook post about a "Sunburn Competition in New Orleans." Below the post, a correction note clarifies that there is no such competition and that the images are AI-generated. The note warns the post spreads false and divisive information and links to a Reuters fact-check.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 24/05/2025

Another successful AI slop fakeout on Spotify

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 23/05/2025

Sad to see, ahead of the Big Trump Military Parade, the organization behind it has wiped its ambassador page, which included Lance Bass and Gloria Estefan among others

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 16/05/2025

Funny to see X devs still calling it Twitter and Birdwatch in the code

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 13/05/2025

Chapo Trap House Featuring @mikeisaac.bsky.social Talking about AI podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 09/05/2025

Long story why I was Googling this, but it's still remarkable how generative AI has invaded top image results

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 03/05/2025

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.

Screen grab of a post on X. Stew Peters video claims falsely that gas chambers have been debunked. A Community Note has not gained enough consensus to be appended to the obvious and extremely antisemitic lie.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 01/05/2025

Last night's Studio was a banger

Ice Cube passionately speaks into a microphone, yelling "AI is bullshit!” during a scene from The Studio, while Seth Rogen, wearing a brown corduroy suit and glasses, looks on with a concerned expression.

Ice Cube, holding a microphone and making an obscene gesture, shouts “Fuck AI! Fuck AI! Fuck AI!” in a heated moment from The Studio. Seth Rogen, wearing a brown suit and glasses, looks on with a bewildered and slightly concerned expression.

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Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com · 23/04/2025

Top reply to an official X post about content moderation. Deranged people on that website. Absolutely deranged.

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