Mor Naaman

@informor.bsky.social

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Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.

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Mor Naaman is a professor of information science at Cornell Tech. He is the founder of the Connective Media Hub and director of the Connective Media degree program. Naaman is known for foundational work on tagging behavior on social networking sites, the use of sites such as Twitter as social awareness streams, and real-world identification from social network activity. His research in these areas has been cited over 12,000 times on Google Scholar. .. more

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Physics 15%

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 17h

One way in which our society is showing signs of post-hype AI is that the corporations are finally depicting socially acceptable use-cases* for AI in their campaigns.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9qP...

*Mere Santa-level deception and environmental costs notwithstanding

Google Gemini: Mr. Fuzzy’s Big Adventure

YouTube video by Google

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 17h

I don't know, but I highly recommend "Music by John Williams" on Disney+ if you haven't watched it yet!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"

Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 3d

A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.

New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts

A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have

ysph.yale.edu

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 4d

How well did X's Community Notes handle misinformation about the identity of Ahmed al-Ahmed, the man who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach terrorists?

It's complicated...

new on @indicator.media:

How the Crabtree conspiracy played out on X’s Community Notes

A case study on crowdsourced fact-checking during breaking news events

indicator.media

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 4d

It did. Happy Hanukkah and Solstice!

JP Morgan Chase skyscraper displaying 8 candles for Hanukkah's final night

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 4d

She had been a spreader of misinformation since before it was cool

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 5d

Ok the practice of "grab the first reference you find that seems to support your point" is now not just lazy but actually dangerous to your own reputation, as slop citations are infesting both Scholar and otherwise-legit papers. Thanks, AI, I guess?

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6d

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6d

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 9d

I haven’t looked at all of mine, but of the couple I did, one seemed fine and one had a small error that was fairly inconsequential. I’d be interested in what kinds of mistakes folks who have mentioned them are seeing!

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 9d

Although... maybe not bad? Just inappropriate.

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 9d

It is wild that the ACM shows these AI summaries as the *default* article view, overriding the authors' own summary aka the abstract.

Having said that, I scanned the summaries for my own papers since the beginning of 2024. They are accurate AND well-written, and I would likely have approved them.

Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 9d

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 9d

I agree that ACM should not have broken the status quo of only showing content provided/approved by authors in the streamlined article page. There are ways to avoid this (showing as secondary content; asking for author approval) that would have made these changes more sensible.

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 9d

Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 10d

Second night update: all still doing Hanukkah but JP Morgan upped their game! Curious if the resolution will allow them to go to eight.

JP Morgan new skyscraper with 2 Hanukkah candles on its top-floors LED display

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 11d

I took a deep dive into Meta’s “Hyperion” data center in Richland Parish, LA. The story of a tech behemoth coming bearing billions to a poor community like Richland Parish is complex and worthy of scrutiny. 🧵 1/7

sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana

$10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values. And enough tax breaks...

sherwood.news

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 11d

"Define NYC in three words"

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 11d

The Big Three (JP Morgan, One Vanderbilt, @empirestatebldng.bsky.social) are dressed for Hanukkah it seems. JP Morgan in high-res.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13d

What authoritarianism looks like - directing government prosecutors to find any basis to bring charges against political targets, then seek to shake them down and cripple them

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 14d

NEW! The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism, with @chronicle.com

Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism

An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.

www.propublica.org

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 14d

NEW! The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism, with @chronicle.com

Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism

An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.

www.propublica.org

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 14d

The algorithm is working as designed, I am guessing: to trigger extreme responses and thus more sharing

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 14d

I listen to a good amount of jazz, but not enough for it to make it to my popular genres or albums or artists, so I remain confused about how they "compute" the age. I sense the use of ragebait algorithms :)

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 14d

Well you *do* have hair don't you

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 14d

I got @justinhendrix.bsky.social beat (83)

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 15d

As reported last year at @techpolicypress.bsky.social ...

www.techpolicy.press/we-dont-need...

We Don't Need Google to Help "Reimagine" Election Misinformation | TechPolicy.Press

The Pixel 9's "Reimagine" tools could supercharge election misinformation, write Cornell Tech's Mor Naaman and Alexios Mantzarlis.

www.techpolicy.press

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 16d

Main source -- I kid you not: Ben Horowitz

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 16d

Well, depends, if you are flying business there's nothing to lose

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 17d

From the moment Zuck shot his hostage video on Jan 7, the tone was set for a year of rampant digital deception.

Platforms rolled back interventions on misinformation, bad actors embraced AI, brainrot infected startup culture, and scam states thrived.

Indicator's 2025 Wrapped for Digital Deception:

2025: The year tech embraced fakeness

This year, powerful people, companies, and institutions welcomed digital deception like never before. The rest of us faced the consequences.

indicator.media

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 17d

The enshittification is here

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 17d

On news that Google has told advertisers that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, resurfacing this on worst case scenarios and what to do about it from Daniel Barcay, Executive Director of the Center for Humane Technology.