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Meredith Broussard, PhD
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Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com

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Meredith Broussard is a data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in journalism. .. more

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 3h
Randos insurance session?

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 4h
BRB inviting all my friends over for drinks and insurance forms.
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Jesse H. Kroll, Wolfgang Crämer , and 14 more

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · 1d
Friends, there are several CS positions open at NYU; calling in my socio-technical researchers including HCI researchers
cs.nyu.edu/dynamic/jobs...
NYU Computer Science Department
cs.nyu.edu

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 3d
Another incredibly important @kashhill piece on chatbots and delusions: What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 3d
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘We’re basically pushers’: Court filing alleges staff at social media giants compared their platforms to drugs
Meta said the allegations “rely on cherry-picked quotes and misinformed opinions” to present a misleading narrative.
www.politico.com

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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 3d
Some stand-out reporting by my colleague @kashhill.bsky.social on OpenAI's tightroping this year between engaging more ChatGPT users and making them lose touch with reality www.nytimes.com/video/techno...
Video: How OpenAI’s Changes Sent Some Users Spiraling
OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings, which left some users spiraling, according to our reporting. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the user...
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Meredith Broussard, Daniel Kim , and 6 more

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Erin O’Donnell, Simon Lester

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 3d
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.”

www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d
Ooops.
Magician loses password to his hand after RFID chip implant
: Storing credentials safely and securely is the real trick
www.theregister.com

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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 3d
Important and timely work by health law extraordinaire @jennoliva.bsky.social featured on @pbsnews.org — discussing the AI battle between private insurers (who use AI to deny claims) & patients (who use new AI tools to draft effective appeals on those denials) . 🔥🔥🔥 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
How patients are using AI to fight back against denied insurance claims
As health insurers increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to process claims, denials have been on the rise. In 2023, about 73 million Americans on Affordable Care Act plans had their claims for ...
www.pbs.org

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Eric Rasmusen, Ian Campbell , and 4 more

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 4d
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 4d
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 5d
I tried and failed!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d
Dear lord in heaven, let me manage to cut something or someone to the quick like this just once before I die.

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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 5d
“This is a time for radical collaboration.”
— @mariaressa.bsky.social

At #GIJC25, the Nobel laureate urged journalists to unite amid rising authoritarianism, disinformation, and shrinking press freedom – warning that 2026 may be a crucial year for media survival.

🔗 More: https://twp.ai/9PYUeX

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 5d
Deep dive by @davey.bsky.social + Bloomberg colleagues into the growing number of small businesses marketing products around conservative political identity and their relationship with the right-wing influencer universe on YouTube
bit.ly/4oR7fcF
YouTube’s Right-Wing Stars Fuel Boom in Politically Charged Ads
YouTube’s MAGA stars aren’t just talking politics—they’re selling it
bit.ly

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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 5d
Hey, another Post byline from your girl! This was a fun project.
We asked 2,500 Americans how they really feel about billionaires
Campaign donations from the country’s richest are soaring. But only 12 percent of respondents say billionaires have a positive impact on society.
www.washingtonpost.com

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 5d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Emre Kıcıman, Solon Barocas

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 5d
Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉

Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Meredith Broussard, Luca Rossi , and 12 more

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 6d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Meredith Broussard

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 6d
"For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising".

“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 7d
Tech journalists get tons of these emails. As usual, @kashhill.bsky.social wrote about it elegantly: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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Andy Rose LPC @andyrose12.bsky.social · 7d
consumer safety?

gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
gizmodo.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 7d
NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government
The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.
www.404media.co

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 8d
Super interesting methodology: How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland, by @natlash.bsky.social
How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...
www.propublica.org

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 8d
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Michael J. Taylor , and 4 more

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NBC10 Philadelphia @nbcphiladelphia.com · 11d
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com

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tazer @ohtazer.goblinmo.de · 12d
i've half-joked about how you aren't actually rich until you have "cancer money", or enough that you can pay for treatment *and* be out of work for however long *and* maintain your or your family's basic quality of life (ie, not having to liquidate core assets like your primary residence).

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 12d
NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana:
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com