Charlie Savage
The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
- Investigation Finds Credit Suisse Had Wider Nazi Ties Than Previously Known www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
- U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s Home The Justice Dept. did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
- An absolutely dystopian tale where an AI is the arbiter of truth for your public biography and you have to figure out how to persuade it to stop lying about you.
- With help from a pseudonymous reader who proposed an experiment, Grokipedia cleaned up most of its politicized hallucinations about me. charliesavage.com/2026/02/fixi...
- gonna add this excellent "Black Mirror" esque observation from you to the top of the piece, thank you
- Checked my entry on Grokipedia (Elon's AI-written antiwoke Wikipedia). Bio accurate, but the LLM's conservative viewpoint mandate led it to invent fake articles & twist 2 incidents where I corrected right-wing outlets into stories where they instead criticized me. charliesavage.com/2026/01/grok...
- With help from a pseudonymous reader who proposed an experiment, Grokipedia cleaned up most of its politicized hallucinations about me. charliesavage.com/2026/02/fixi...
- My takeaway is that Grokipedia may be useful for nonpoliticized topics — its material on my bio is more detailed than Wikipedia — but is factually unreliable when its mandate to say some conservative stuff kicks in. It strains to invent fake things if there's nothing real to say.
- Checked my entry on Grokipedia (Elon's AI-written antiwoke Wikipedia). Bio accurate, but the LLM's conservative viewpoint mandate led it to invent fake articles & twist 2 incidents where I corrected right-wing outlets into stories where they instead criticized me. charliesavage.com/2026/01/grok...
- With help from a pseudonymous reader who proposed an experiment, Grokipedia cleaned up most of its politicized hallucinations about me. charliesavage.com/2026/02/fixi...
- With help from a pseudonymous reader who proposed an experiment, Grokipedia cleaned up most of its politicized hallucinations about me. charliesavage.com/2026/02/fixi...
- ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene. w/ @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
