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EPISODE · Aug 8, 2026 · 32 MIN

AI Powered Community Notes on X with Alexios Mantzarlis

from The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast · host The Pell Center at Salve Regina University

AI is already writing more than half of X’s helpful Community Notes, and that changes everything about who gets fact-checked, what gets fact-checked, and what happens when “the community” starts looking a lot more synthetic. Alexios Mantzarlis, co-founder of Indicator and a self-described “recovering fact checker,” breaks down the surprising rise of AI-written notes, why bots sometimes outperform humans, and the bigger danger hiding underneath the numbers: a moderation system that can look healthier on paper while quietly losing human participation, language diversity, and political coverage.  Hosts Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson also unpack the recent migrant crisis in Ceuta, Spain, and increasing evidence of adversarial manipulation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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AI bots are now writing more than half of X’s helpful community notes, and that shift may be quietly reshaping how truth is judged online. In this episode, Alexios Mantzarlis explains why machine-written fact checks can outperform humans in some cases, where they fail on breaking news and politics, and how platform design may be pushing AI contributors toward safer, less consequential targets. The conversation also explores who is building these bots, why Grok matters, and how tactics like “no notes needed” can be used to game the system. Together, the hosts unpack the growing tension between crowdsourced truth and the risk of automating it into something easier to manipulate.

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