Valerie Wirtschafter
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Valerie Wirtschafter
@vwirtschafter.bsky.social
Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Poli sci PhD researching all things new media, emerging tech, and democracy.
A first sighting in the wild. I guess we’re all rolling with the name Community Notes! Any ideas as to whether this data will be available?
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Adversaries are having a field day right now stoking these tensions, & they’re not even trying to hide it. Imagine what they’re doing covertly! Political violence in all of its forms is horrific, and the info environment is — perhaps unsurprisingly — really failing in this moment.
September 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
So obviously AI slop with more than 32k likes on Threads…
June 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The effect of this is so much bigger than Google’s advertising revenue and extends to companies that rely on Google search to drive traffic…which is most of the internet?

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...
May 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Apple with the brutal AI summary
April 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Giving real every presidential election model energy, @theathletic.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
What an…odd takeaway from this figure from Gallup’s newsletter today
January 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Is this the bad place?
January 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
While I do think the role of AI generated content in elections could have evolved in some concerning and tailored ways, on aggregate this aligns with what I found earlier this year in my own research looking at data from the Community Notes feature of X: techcrunch.com/2024/12/03/m...
December 6, 2024 at 5:10 PM