New from me on Substack: “Source Wars and Bespoke Realities: Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth” I wrote about the high stakes power game over “reliable sources” — and the story of how Grokipedia did change its entry ab me after my Atlantic article on its hallucinations last week. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreif26x32mjv5ja4xcap4huxmw44zxj2rknchyk4kv25yk5wdr7xtne
Just finished 5 cities in 6 days. I really appreciated Munich. Photo from Mon night, outside the building where part of Czechoslovakia was signed away. I got to visit the Documentation Center, which had an exhibit that focused in part on the role propaganda and appeasement played in Hitler’s rise. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreic74n5sipkmwyd3gawjfmh4gc44weozoxct22luwx5kd7nkvgbozm
The New York Times won’t use the word but we should because it’s obvious: right wing political influencers aren’t just ‘close to’ the administration — they are its propagandists in the most literal sense of that word. They financially benefit from access & loyalty. [www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b...](
Conservative Media Picks an Epstein Story Line and Sticks to It
Right-wing outlets have focused on a single redacted name in the 23,000 pages of correspondence related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released on We...
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Conservative Media Picks an Epstein Story Line and Sticks to It
Right-wing outlets have focused on a single redacted name in the 23,000 pages of correspondence related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released on We...
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I wrote ab how the antivax movement ascended to power, and now directs govt research funding — enabling it both to manufacture “findings” and to defund actual independent research. This happened concurrently w/the dismantling of outside verification systems where info is distributed: on social. RE:
Bluesky Social
Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
2. How Political Power is Capturing Knowledge Systems and Manufacturing Structural Ignorance by @noupside.bsky.social. https://www.techpolicy.press...
New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines. [www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...](
The Atlantic
The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia
The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
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The Atlantic
The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia
The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
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"It's just some people online" was the phrase that I got from the CDC after presenting as a pro-vax parent activist 10 yrs ago on how we were trying to build a counter-movement online but had no resources. This is an analysis we published in Wired, that later became the cover of The Economist. 1/2 RE:
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social)
I started studying the anti-vaccine movement more than fifteen years ago along with one of my colleagues, Dr. Kacey Ernst. It was clear to us even ...
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Katherine Boyle is a Silicon Valley caricature at this point. I have a boy who's very good at math, not so good at illusory authority, and I parent him on how to work within the confines of that system but damn lol. "It's ok to be a dick if you're good at math" is not where I've taken it. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifnn7bdb2wyk5hpzxy67ati3ye5t2q5hzbg3satkcmgucwlq3l6fy
Truth Social now has its own custom Perplexity AI search that is having some real struggles with cognitive dissonance. It knows the facts — the election wasn’t stolen! Vaccines don’t cause autism! But it ALSO seems to have had its sources constrained to right wing crank media 🫠 Poor bot… 1/2 https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreidqkupe3e4ol3ytmz7mka72myxazms6ls4tqonfzotcosexa4q2sq https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiffuqvhkpcdalheh6t6wazp3vq2lnjxuypjgvyhzoe2bpjfmweyye https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifwpf4lnwm22nkmeeermdu5y5ve33jmft6lx5xzlcepxipq2y3vhy
“Tucker in the grocery store” content incoming lol https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreig5ldus7j7q23vt7zuzo2mjmyet27euklxzayyofowjgpii3ktu2u
Marc Andreesen,🥚, picked a fight with *the Pope* over a pretty basic call to exercise discernment when building AI. Marc truly believes that any constraint on anything he does is fundamentally illegitimate. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibic6a7zeatp4xrtlyxopbrsqwosxk6busd65au5yxjonw65zt7ku