#publicfigures — Public Fediverse posts

Mashable: Two men were charged with federal crimes after creating explicit deepfakes of celebrities. “Federal prosecutors arrested two men in conjunction with a criminal complaint that both separately made sexually explicit AI content that was viewed by millions of users online. The content featured female politicians, musicians, singers, and private photos of women known to one of the accused. […]

Calishat: Upgrading Wikipedia Seismograph. “Using Wikipedia Seismograph’s new zoom feature means you can explore over nine years’ worth of public interest data in any Wikipedia topic with one chart and easily turn it into date-bounded Google News searches.”

Calishat: Researching Public Figures in the Epstein Birthday Book, Part I: MiniGladys. “MiniGladys is a collection of four research tools to use Wikipedia data. For this article I’ll use the example of Leon Black, who appears in the Epstein birthday book but is not on the public stage as much as someone like Alan Deshowitz. In the time it takes to click a few times and read a few news […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/12/researching-public-figures-in-the-epstein-birthday-book-part-i-minigladys-calishat/