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Followers
350
Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
37
Avg engagement / post
10.6%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: 2 examples of AI swarms—influence campaigns by AI-generated pers · 72 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.8 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.4×
Follows 102 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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"The Trump administration's knee-jerk instinct to paint any tech regulation as a free speech crusade is political theater—a calculated smokescreen designed to deflect attention from the real censors: the US government and its corporate all…
A Voter Guide to Trump’s Election Claims
https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguardtech/p/a-voter-guide-to-trumps-election
An AI agent emailed me asking semi-coherent research questions. I sent a semi-coherent reply drafted by Gmail-Gemini.
Can AI equalize political campaign ads – or will it remain a tool for spreading lies?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/08/ai-ads-political-campaigns
BREAKING: Infantino announces USA beat Belgium 4-1 after call from Trump
Health misinformers falsely claim that sunscreen causes skin cancer.
I think the proper treatment for these modern plague spreaders (Nicholas Hulscher, Matt Gaetz) would be to let them bake in the sun for hours a day without sunscreen.
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Threat of Foreign Influence on U.S. Elections Remain as Federal Defenses Recede
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/threat-foreign-influence-us-elections-remain-federal-defenses-recede
Ricercatori italiani in US/CA: applicate per ISSNAF Young Investigator Awards - in particolare MARIO GERLA AWARD FOR COMP SCI RESEARCH
These prestigious awards recognize outstanding early-career Italian researchers (within 8 years of PhD c…
Japan is debating AI-generated political smear videos spread online by social bots.
Background: Smear video scandal
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/25/japan/politics/takaichi-campaign-smear-video/
My interviews in Japanese news s…
As the public becomes aware of non-consensual adult deepfakes, our just-published research sheds light on how AI platforms commoditize and incentivize these forms of abuse:
🧪 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3805689.3812321
Another red alert for American science | Science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej3572
An AI agent emailed me asking semi-coherent research questions. I sent a semi-coherent reply drafted by Gmail-Gemini.
Can AI equalize political campaign ads – or will it remain a tool for spreading lies?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/08/ai-ads-political-campaigns
BREAKING: Infantino announces USA beat Belgium 4-1 after call from Trump
Health misinformers falsely claim that sunscreen causes skin cancer.
I think the proper treatment for these modern plague spreaders (Nicholas Hulscher, Matt Gaetz) would be to let them bake in the sun for hours a day without sunscreen.
ht…
Threat of Foreign Influence on U.S. Elections Remain as Federal Defenses Recede
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/threat-foreign-influence-us-elections-remain-federal-defenses-recede
Ricercatori italiani in US/CA: applicate per ISSNAF Young Investigator Awards - in particolare MARIO GERLA AWARD FOR COMP SCI RESEARCH
These prestigious awards recognize outstanding early-career Italian researchers (within 8 years of PhD c…
Japan is debating AI-generated political smear videos spread online by social bots.
Background: Smear video scandal
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/25/japan/politics/takaichi-campaign-smear-video/
My interviews in Japanese news s…
As the public becomes aware of non-consensual adult deepfakes, our just-published research sheds light on how AI platforms commoditize and incentivize these forms of abuse:
🧪 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3805689.3812321
Another red alert for American science | Science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej3572
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
fediscience.org
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 37 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.8× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.1× of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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About
Director of the Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University. Distinguished Luddy Professor of Informatics and Computing. Researcher on social media manipulation, computational social science, web and network science.
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