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Shelby Grossman

@shelbygrossman.bsky.social
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Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University

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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
For the latest issue of our Finely Tuned newsletter (on AI and investigative journalism) I sat down with my colleagues to get their raw thoughts on what it was actually like when I trained them on Claude Cowork: howardcenter.asu.edu/newsletters/...
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MuckRock @muckrock.com · 03/06/2026
At least three Arizona school boards have acknowledged destroying recordings of their official meetings before the legally required retention period has elapsed, a practice that threatens transparency, reports @shelbygrossman.bsky.social, @gaigedavila.bsky.social and Evan Wyloge. buff.ly/xSG3qEe
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My contribution to the disco ball discourse is that when I first saw it I thought CarPlay was broken
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
You might not think you need another AI newsletter in your life, but you do! Introducing: Finely Tuned, our new quarterly newsletter on AI and investigative journalism. howardcenter.asu.edu/newsletters/...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2026
📢 Journalists: Have you used the Wayback Machine in your research or reporting? Share your story & support: ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/journalists/
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
My team just launched The Beam, a new media outlet for Arizona. I’m particularly excited about something we built for parents: School Board chatbots. thebeam.org/arizona-scho...
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🛡️ Meta just announced they’re shifting more content moderation to AI. Fortuitous timing: Anthony Mensah, Alex Stamos, Jeff Hancock & I have a new open-access paper out this week in PS: Political Science & Politics exploring exactly this. 🧵
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is an amazingly incomprehensible Google Meet pop up
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Inspired by Platformer/Hard Fork, I vibe coded a new website while my kids were napping using Claude Cowork. It was so much fun. www.shelbygrossman.com
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Fascinating thread, fascinating situation providing evidence in support of the theory that in life so many things come down to the details
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🧵 Possibly controversial hot take: AI companies’ PR teams are not showing what AI is actually good for.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
👩‍🏫 I spent 6 months building something I’m super proud of: a course for journalists on using AI for investigations. It officially launched today! These approaches have already improved my own investigations. Get started: careercatalyst.asu.edu/programs/ai-...
A picture of the website where you can register for the course.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Today I drove 30 minutes out of the way to return to this post office to send a package. It was somehow more magical than last time. My son played at a kids table with board games (!!!) while I waited in the short line. The woman in front of me called it Phoenix’s best kept secret.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Super important work.
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My May paper with @shelbygrossman.bsky.social on AI-generated CSAM recommended that state lawmakers update mandatory-reporter laws to cover "nudify" incidents in schools. Now, Pennsylvania lawmakers are working to do just that, spurred by an incident our paper discusses. www.witf.org/2025/10/07/l...
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Lancaster Country Day AI incident moves lawmakers to push changes in mandatory reporting law | WITF
Three Lancaster County lawmakers are working on legislation that would require school administrators to report the discovery of any artificially g […]
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Agree with Riana. NCMEC staff are truly doing god's work, but many actors in this space lose their mind with the language NCMEC is using here. ⬆️ in CyberTips ≠ ⬆️ increase in harm. Claiming otherwise is misleading. And the AI problem is real, but many of these AI CyberTips may be failed generations.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🎒 My team is hiring for two positions! Your colleagues will be amazing, the Cronkite School is amazing, ASU is amazing, Phoenix is amazing. 👇
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🍺 Are you a journalist in the Phoenix area thinking about AI? The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Cronkite School at ASU is hosting a happy hour on Thursday, October 9 from 4-6pm. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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RSVP Form: Phoenix-Area AI and Journalism Happy Hour
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2025 Time: 4-6pm Location: A bar in uptown Phoenix. We will share the location with those who RSVP. Are food and drinks provided? We provide a drink ticket for the first 30...
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I've been playing around with Google Workspace with Gemini, and asked Gemini to make an image for a slide on LLM benchmarking.
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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 14/08/2025
You know I would go out on a limb and say that a bot shouldn't do that to a 13 year old child either but I'm not a Meta AI policy person
Image with the text "It is unacceptable to describe a child under 13 years old in terms that indicate they are sexually desirable"
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
If you're not already subscribed to ‪@indicator.media‬, it's worth it. It's helping me stay up to date on OSINT stuff. Today's newsletter was wonderfully in the weeds and fascinating. indicator.media/p/ai-enabled...
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AI-enabled geolocation: A conversation with GeoSpy's Daniel Heinen
He said that using an LLM to do geolocation is "like using a chainsaw to do surgery versus a scalpel."
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
New NYT piece says NCMEC got 75,000 CyberTips from OpenAI w/ AI CSAM in 1st half of 2025. Our research suggests many involve failed generation attempts, but NCMEC can’t always clarify due to legal limits. AI companies should publish this breakdown. Right now, all reports are assumed to contain CSAM.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Today’s App Store ad for nudify searches has the word “girls”
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Can anyone recommend an under sink reverse osmosis filtration system?
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The Apple App Store not only doesn’t block a “nudify” search, it accepts ads for this query
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I’m so excited to have joined the Howard Center for Investigative reporting at the Cronkite School! cronkite.asu.edu/news/2025/ne...
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Cronkite School welcomes new Professor of Practice in AI and Investigative Journalism
Shelby Grossman joins the Cronkite School to advance work in artificial intelligence and investigative journalism.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🎒 Check out our new report - a year in the making - on AI CSAM. Insights on schools & nudify apps, trends re: adults creating AI CSAM, and platform responses. Thank you to @safeonlinefund.bsky.social‬ for supporting this project.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I am one of the world’s biggest fans of This American Life, but it feels a little insane to me that none of this context was provided with this story www.kens5.com/article/news...
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Murderer forged paperwork to get out of jail
A few years ago Kwaneta Harris murdered her boyfriend and buried him in the backyard under concrete, then assumed his identity. Recently she tried another scheme to be released from prison decades ear...
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New Platformer article highlighting research by my colleague @rer.bsky.social
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Reporters for these kind of stories need to find an expert who can provide a “this is complete nonsense” quote.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
My totally amazing nanny is moving to Boston in March. If you’re looking for a nanny send me an email, shelbygrossman@gmail.con
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I’m a little late to this but I’m so grateful to Jimmy Carter for investing in The Carter Center’s “Educational Programs,” which includes their internship program. Their internship program changed my life, and I bet there are hundreds of intern alumni out there with a similar experience.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I went to a post office today and had a…positive experience. It was inside a compounding pharmacy. There was a check out counter for the pharmacy and a counter for the US Postal Service. And the phrase compounding pharmacy doesn’t capture the vibe - it was the kind of place that sold essential oils.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Love that WSJ is on the pig butchering scam beat. Wild details here, including that a co-founder of the firm running the scam previously ran…a pig farm. www.wsj.com/world/asia/h...
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How a Young Mayor Turned Her Town Into a Hub for ‘Pig Butchering’ Scammers
WSJ got rare access to a criminal enclave in the Philippines from which gangs targeted people around the world, including Americans.
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Brian Fishman @brianfishman1.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Cinder builds a cutting edge operations platform used for Trust & Safety, Responsible AI, etc. But we also were one of the only companies to publicly and proactively announce that we'd caught folks from DPRK surreptitiously trying to get into our hiring pipeline. www.cinder.co/blog-posts/n...
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We found North Korean engineers in our application pile. Here’s what our ex-CIA co founders did about it.
Cinder is part of a growing list of US-based tech companies that encounter engineering applicants who are actually suspected North Korean nationals. Here's what we're doing about it.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New insights from a local journalist in CAR who describes working for Prigozhin’s group.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New Human Rights Watch report on webcam studios in Colombia www.hrw.org/sites/defaul...
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Tough but important read
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I puzzled over this for a bit, as I had a baby on August 3, but then remembered I used Spotify for white noise in the hospital.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Promoting favorable views of Russia in the post-Prigozhin era - an interesting case of an effort called Africa Initiative in Burkina
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Lots of useful Bluesky OSINT tips here 👇
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Anyway here’s my brand-new case study with my coworker about some of the harms of AI-generated imagery, the latest entry in an entire body of work I’ve done at Stanford about AI policy that, if you believe today’s on-the-record congressional testimony, does not exist. 😘 to our haters
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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Over a million new Bluesky accounts were created yesterday. Unsurprisingly, some fakes are popping up here and there, such as this set of nine accounts with identical biographies and repeated banner images.
collage of 9 bluesky accounts with the biography "I come from the beautiful coastal city of Hong Kong. Living in the SF Bay Area, I have many interests and hobbies, and I love life and making friends!"
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
It has now been >3 weeks since Blinken attributed African Stream to RT. TikTok, Meta, and Google have suspended African Stream. Twitter/X has not. African Stream continues to use their X account (88,000 followers and high engagement) to spread polarizing content about the U.S. elections.
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
It has now been a week since Blinken attributed African Stream to RT and its account (with almost 1 million followers) is still up on TikTok
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
African Stream has already respawned on Instagram
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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 18/09/2024
Our first analysis that really overlapped significantly with the tankiesphere: aside from the staff largely coming from state media of autocratic nations, African Stream cross-promotes with Grayzone and George Galloway, and pushed many of the same narratives. 1/4
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
The @stanford.io just published a quick analysis of African Stream, a media operation that Blinken attributed to RT (formerly Russia Today) on Friday. cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/afri...
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African Stream: Russia’s Latest Covert Influence Pipeline
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
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