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Stuart A. Thompson retweeted
NEWS: The website and social media accounts for pollster SoCal Strategies have been taken offline after FiftyPlusOne reached out to the firm Tuesday to verify data quality and potential ties to Wedgewood Polls, which admitted to fabricating data this week. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/mor…
Stuart A. Thompson retweeted
Audiences for pro-Trump content have fallen from their heights and, for some creators, reached new lows, data show. Views for many of his greatest allies are dropping. @stuartathompson nytimes.com/2026/07/31/us/po…
When I went to sell my home, I rebuffed real estate agents and hired a chatbot. Here's how that went (gift article) nytimes.com/2026/05/28/techn…
Stuart A. Thompson retweeted
usually if I appear in the Times, it's under my byline. sometimes, though, I pop up in @stuartathompson's work. His latest on how we (mostly he) tried to use A.I. in lieu of a realtor to sell our home, is a fun one: nytimes.com/2026/05/28/techn…
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“They’re trying to spread political messages and give an illusion of a consensus. Flooding the zone here with tons and tons of videos seems geared to give a false sense of a majority opinion.” nytimes.com/2026/04/17/busin…
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This is just terrifying.
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check out my new AI quiz and try so spot which TALKING videos are AI or not nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
community notes are quite powerful when they actually appear. I’m surprised there aren’t more people gaming the system to get their POV to appear
Community Notes just got faster ⚡
Starting today, notes will appear an average of 1.5 hours faster, and as much as 3.5 hours faster in some cases. Since information travels quickly on X, this means notes will be seen by many more people at the time they read a post.
How it works: We overhauled the note scoring architecture, moving from a batch update process to real-time streaming of note score updates to serving backends. On top of this, we’re now also able to score notes more frequently.
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We also asked @NintendoAmerica if it knew Bing is generating images of Kirby doing 9/11. 404media.co/bing-is-generati…
fact-checkers are battered, beaten down and beginning to see that things aren’t getting better. but they’re not giving up. new with @tiffkhsu
nytimes.com/2023/09/29/busin…
hoped for something stronger on AI. instead this cracks the door open. seems AI will be co-writing scripts and studios will likely spend the next period training better models using WGA work
The details of the new Writers Guild contract are out. We won:
• Success-based residuals
• Strong limitations on A.I.
• Minimum writers room staffing
• Guaranteed compensation and 13-week minimums for Comedy/Variety writers in streaming
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wgacontract2023.org/the-camp…
