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  • In late July 2025, posts claimed an ex-CIA whistleblower alleged that the National Security Agency audited the 2024 presidential election and found that former Vice President Kamala Harris actually won.

    The claims stem from an article published by a Substack account called This Will Hold on July 31, 2025. However, Snopes did not find any documentation or other evidence proving that such an audit occurred. No credible news outlet had reported on it, and the Substack article did not offer proof that it took place.

    Snopes reached out to the NSA for comment on the veracity of the Substack article’s claims and did not receive a response. This Will Hold also did not respond to our questions about its report and the alleged audit.

    The Substack article identified a person by the name of Adam Zarnowski as the ex-CIA agent who was involved in the audit. However, Snopes could not independently verify Zarnowski’s employment with the CIA or his alleged involvement in such an NSA audit.

    In other words, this particular sibstack account has a documented history of spreading misinformation.
















  • You have keywords to type into forums.

    That’s great when you do, and you usually do, but sometimes you don’t.

    Case in point; A while back I was creating a 3D model for my 3D printer. It had a part that was essentially identical to a particular unusual pipe fitting that I have seen and knew existed, but didn’t know the name of (spoiler: I’m not a plumber), and I wanted to give the sketch in the modeling software a proper name for the thing.

    Just trying keywords that sort of described it’s shape in search engines was useless. Search engines would focus more on the “pipe fitting” part of the keywords and just return links to articles about plumbing. Then I asked an LLM, and it responded with, “That sounds like X.” Then I checked that it wasn’t just making it up by searching for “X” and found online stores selling the very thing I was trying to figure out the name of.