Maybe instead of pushing social media and smartphone bans, politicians and educators should confront the growing and deeply troubling issue of nudify apps being used on schoolchildren
Great analysis from @mattburgess1.bsky.social, in collaboration @indicator.media
www.wired.com/story/deepfa...
New on @indicator.media:
With @mattburgess1.bsky.social at @wired.com, I built a map of the reported cases where AI was used to create nonconsensual intimate imagery within schools around the globe.
Regardless of results, this operation shows that Community Notes has become yet another battleground in the online information war.
NEW on @indicator.media:
I found a group of X accounts that worked together to remove Community Notes from British Conservative Party accounts during the 2024 UK general election.
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And in December, @mantzarlis.com took a step back and spoke with a dozen researchers about what it would actually take to decimate this awful ecosystem.
🎁 link:
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In September with Benjamin Shultz of @americansunlight.org, we found that Meta continued to run thousands of ads for these companies and failing to disclose who was behind them
🎁 link:
indicator.media/p/meta-ran-4...
In the summer of 2025 with @santi4dc.bsky.social we attempted a first of its kind quantification of the money these tools of abuse make
🎁 link:
indicator.media/p/ai-nudifie...
You can check out all of the reporting on AI nudifiers that made the @cjf-fjc.bsky.social shortlist at this link
indicator.media/nudifiers-un...
I'm looking for researchers at British universities who have studied Community Notes to comment on a big piece for @indicator.media. Any advice?
A gold and red graphic with logos of the 2026 CJF Hinton Award for Excellence in AI Safety Reporting finalists.
A gold graphic with a quote by The Canadian Journalism Foundation President Natalie Turvey about the 2026 CJF Hinton Award for Excellence in AI Safety Reporting finalists.
TORONTO, April 8, 2026 /CNW/ - The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) is proud to announce its shortlist for the inaugural CJF Hinton Award for Excellence in AI Safety Reporting. Read more: www.newswire.ca/news-release... #CJFAwards
2/ If you want to read excellent thoughts beyond a skeet, check out this work of his:
indicator.media/p/online-sea...
We did a great podcast with @koltai.bsky.social where she walked through the tools and techniques used to expose the infrastructure and people behind abusive AI nudifier websites. It's a fun OSINT tutorial about holding awful people accountable:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn58...
Just updated @indicator.media's impact page!
It is growing and growing 💪
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Also in the Briefing: We're getting quite a bit closer to a situation where the majority of Community Notes on X are AI-generated. On Tuesday the share was almost 44%...
Check out the data in our interactive:
indicator.media/ai-community...
This was so much fun!
Love the work that @indicator.media is doing and was an honor to come on the podcast with @mantzarlis.com @craigsilverman.bsky.social (and Rosie the cat 🐱)
Today on @indicator.media’s podcast: The awesome and inimitable @koltai.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com!!
Please, allow me a fanboy thread.
Great to talk to @craigsilverman.bsky.social from @indicator.media about why 2026 is a year of change in the beneficial ownership world - and what it means for people trying to find out the real owners of companies and trusts
indicator.media/p/finding-th...
#beneficialownership #OSINT #GODIN
i checked out accounts (my eyes!!) of some nsfw AI models advertising gambling site 1win--restricted in the US--& spoke w/ @indicator.media about the endorsement issues. instagram actually took down most of the accounts in connection w/ @mantzarlis.com's reporting!
indicator.media/p/this-netwo...
Today on @indicator.media:
I uncovered a coordinated network of AI "models" repeatedly promoting the gambling website 1win on Instagram.
Wrote up a little guide to building your own reverse image search engine for @indicator.media, steered by the brilliant fellow
@towcenter.bsky.social alum @craigsilverman.bsky.social: indicator.media/p/the-indica...
Cool guide out today on @indicator.media!
Reverse image search is a valuable verification tool. But sometimes you want to search within an image bank that is not public.
@ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social explains how to do it:
Whether AI content got labeled came down to a combination of generator, upload mode, and posting platform.
While these failure modes were not random, the process ended up feeling like a slot machine.
So I built a slot machine to visualize my results: indicator.media/p/ai-labelin...
There are lots of hard problems surrounding information integrity, misinformation and possible regulations
THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM!!
If the tech companies wanted, this problem could easily be solved. But their actions show their priorities - and consistent AI labelling is not a priority
Major social media platforms still perform poorly in identifying and labelling AI-generated content. All while synthetic content continues to proliferate and supercharge misinformation during the war.
NEW on @indicator.media:
Tech companies have promised to help limit the damage to online truth-seeking by labeling AI content.
But Indicator's latest audit found that this labeling infrastructure has multiple failure points
Should you be worried about false health information and deepfake doctors? YES. Incredible journalism here from TVO. Love to see the work of @indicator.media featured. Our team is committed to making sure all Canadians are safe from online harm. It's going to take all of us to fight back.
