Alex Mahadevan (@alexmahadevan) 's Twitter Profile
Alex Mahadevan

@alexmahadevan

Director of @mediawise and faculty @poynter. Sometimes data journalist. bsky.app/profile/alexma…

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New: International Fact-Checking Network condemns raid on CRTA, home of Istinomer fact-checkers, in Serbia. Serbian authorities premised the raid on unproven claims from Trump, Musk and other US officials about USAID program corruption. poynter.org/news-release/2…

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Regular reminder that crowdsourced fact-checking is only as effective as a platform wants it to be. And, as I've said, addressing misinformation doesn't seem high on Zuck's list of priorities. poynter.org/commentary/202…

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I know I have my criticisms, but I am always impressed with Keith Coleman 🌱😀🙌, Jay Baxter and other's work on this product. Seems small, but this is a HUGE improvement for information integrity. Bad actors like to screenshot unpublished notes to act like they're rated helpful.

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Nearly half of Americans say they don’t want news from generative artificial intelligence, according to a wide-ranging study from Poynter and the University of Minnesota on audience AI sentiment. Alex Mahadevan on the major findings: poynter.org/ethics-trust/2…

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A survey of 1,128 US adults: 49% have no interest in using an AI chatbot to get info from news outlets, and 27% believe outlets often use AI to write articles (@alexmahadevan / Poynter) poynter.org/ethics-trust/2… mediagazer.com/250409/p3#a250…

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TikTok is the latest social platform to hop on the Community Notes bandwagon and implement crowdsourced fact-checking. They're keeping pro fact-checkers in the loop, and using the same bridging algorithm: poynter.org/fact-checking/…

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As TikTok follows X and Meta into a "community notes"-style form of fact-checking, Poynter's Ren LaForme talks with Alex Mahadevan about what could go right or wrong. poynter.org/commentary/202…

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New: Here's a chart of the top conservative / progressive accounts on X. See that small blue dot at the top? That's Acyn. His fast-cut clips of political combat get hundreds of millions more views than major news sources - and basically no one knows who he is. So I profiled him.

New: Here's a chart of the top conservative / progressive accounts on X. See that small blue dot at the top? That's <a href="/Acyn/">Acyn</a>. His fast-cut clips of political combat get hundreds of millions more views than major news sources - and basically no one knows who he is. So I profiled him.
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The one-and-only Katie Sanders 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. politifact.com/article/2025/a…

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Someone is melting down about not being able to post harmful health misinformation and blaming Community Notes. Seemingly unaware that when multiple people Google sources to debunk misinformation — they'll GET THE SAME SOURCES. CN for the win here.

Someone is melting down about not being able to post harmful health misinformation and blaming <a href="/CommunityNotes/">Community Notes</a>. Seemingly unaware that when multiple people Google sources to debunk misinformation — they'll GET THE SAME SOURCES. CN for the win here.